Friday, September 21, 2012

"The New Normal' offers a different take on family life

Stay Tuned: 'The New Normal' offers a different take on family life
Norwich Bulletin
Conventional wisdom says that if you don't want to cause conflict among a group of people, particularly people you don't know very well, you avoid talking about politics and religion. In my experience, the same can be said of parenting and homosexuality.

The Least Normal Things About 'The New Normal': Baby Clothes Edition
New York Post
NBC's The New Normal is a delightful show about a not very ordinary gay couple trying to have a surrogate daughter with a strange woman who has an oddball child and an unbelievably bigoted (and funny) grandmother. NeNe Leakes is also somehow ...

King in middle of 'Normal' controversy: TV's Top 10: New Faces for Fall ...
Chicago Tribune
Even before "The New Normal" aired a single episode, the NBC sitcom found itself in some controversy with a Salt Lake City affiliate and conservative watchdog groups. Georgia King, who plays single-mom surrogate Goldie, wasn't surprised by the reaction ...

Is this 'The New Normal'?
Lexington Dispatch
"The New Normal" is the highly controversial new television series that debuted on NBC on Tuesday that's gaining publicity. The show's creator, Ryan Murphy, is infamous for his popular and highly successful television shows such as "Glee" and "American ...

'The Song of Achilles,' 'The New Normal,' And The Future of Gay Pop Culture
ThinkProgress
Madeline Miller's The Song of Achilles, which won this year's Orange Prize for fiction, is a retelling of a very old story, the rise of the Greek warrior Achilles to immortality through his feats at Troy. Its innovation, however, is that the person who ...

ThinkProgress

Kathmandu warns retailers of new normal
Sky News Australia
The head of outdoor clothing retailer Kathmandu says the tough trading conditions gripping the sector are the 'new normal'. The outdoor clothing and equipment retailer posted a net profit of $NZ34.9 million ($A27.87 million) in the year to July 31 ...

Sky News Australia

New Scottrade Research: Investors Adapt to Complex Global Economy
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
They're adjusting to a new normal,” said Matt Billings, Scottrade's director of trading services. As of Sept. 14, buy activity among Scottrade's clients outpaced sell activity for 170 of the 178 trading days this year. “This implied confidence among ...

The Herald | HeraldOnline.com

Viewers attracted to 'The New Normal'
OCRegister
The premiere of "The New Normal" topped all of its broadcast competition in its time slot among both all viewers and the young adults NBC targets, while the debut of another NBC comedy, "Guys With Kids," finished second in its time slot among all ...

Ratings: The Voice Grows, Go On Stays Steady, New Normal Drops
Seattle Post Intelligencer
NBC topped Tuesday with another big showing from The Voice. Experiencing its second straight night of week-to-week gains, the reality series notched 13.3 million viewers and a 4.5 rating in the adults 18-to-49 demographic, up 13 percent from last week.

'The Voice' dominates Tuesday night ratings NBC wins with 'Go On,' 'New Normal'
Examiner.com
NBC's "Go On," which followed "The Voice," had a 3.3 rating and a 9 share, and "TheNew Normal" pulled a 2.2 with a 6 share. NBC closed the night with "Parenthood," with a 1.8 rating and a 5 share. In the 18-49 demographic, those were the four highest...

Examiner.com

Ryan Murphy's Love of 'Protest and Anarchy' Are the Driving Force Behind The ...
Broadway.com
With the first season of Glee creator Ryan Murphy's new comedy, The New Normal, barely underway, the writer/director/producer is already at work on another ambitious project: a film adaptation of Larry Kramer's Tony-winning play The Normal Heart ...

Andrew Rannells Dishes on The New Normal Costar Nene Leakes
People.com
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Kathmandu warns retailers of "new normal"
SBS
Retailer Kathmandu expects to bounce back from a difficult year with a higher net profit but warns that it sees the current tough trading climate as the new normal. The outdoor clothing and equipment retailer posted a net profit of $NZ34.9 million ...

SBS

'The New Normal' To Include Lady-Love
SheWired
Amid critique that Ryan Murphy's new sitcom The New Normal too often places lesbians at the butt-end of jokes, the freshman comedy from Glee mastermind will incorporate a lesbian couple in the show's seventh episode, according to the Hollywood...

SheWired

Networks present 21 new primetime shows this fall
TheDay.com
"The New Normal" (Tuesdays, 9:30 p.m. on NBC) Ryan Murphy created this comedy about an odd family unit. An affluent gay couple in Los Angeles (Justin Bartha and Andrew Rannells) takes in a sweet surrogate mother (Georgia King) and her candid ...

Martial law, baby
Inquirer.net
The original martial law babies were children who grew up in the 1970s, unaware of the true nature of the dictatorship but accustomed over time to certain arrangements—the new normal—of the so-called New Society. The members of the new generation ...

Andrew Rannells, Justin Bartha, & 'New Normal' Cast: 'Vogue' Feature!
Just Jared
Check out the cast of The New Normal in this new feature for Vogue magazine's October 2012 issue, which features cover gal Keira Knightley. The show's creator Ryan Murphy spoke with the mag about the series and its stars Andrew Rannells, Justin Bartha, ...

Just Jared

NBC puts on rally caps: Fall TV Preview 2012: NBC
Chicago Tribune
A huge priority is the new Tuesday 9-10 p.m. comedy block of "Go On" and "The New Normal." NBC is hoping some "Friends" magic runs off on "Go On," which stars Central Perk alum Matthew Perry. And with "The New Normal," NBC is betting that Ryan ...

Ryan Murphy says he's the male Lady Gaga, plus more fun facts from 'Vogue ...
Entertainment Weekly
This fall, he'll have three scripted shows on the air — Glee, American Horror Story, and The New Normal. In honor of this impressive achievement, Vogue wrote a lengthy profile on the TV scribe. The story includes everything you ever wanted to know ...

The New Normal: Season One Ratings
TV Series Finale
Before it even premiered, The New Normal was “cancelled” by an affiliate station in Utah. NBC is hoping that some of the “controversy” surrounding this show will draw big ratings week after week. Revolving around a gay couple and their surrogate, The ...

Ten to fast-track shows
The West Australian
Among those being fast-tracked are Ryan Murphy's new series The New Normal, Glee, Ben and Kate, Justice, new seasons of comedies Modern Family and New Girl, action dramas NCIS and Hawaii Five-0, the acclaimed thriller Homeland and dramas Law ...

The West Australian

Mississauga hikes transit fares, cuts service
Toronto Star
“We're really at a crossroads — this is the new normal,” said Councillor Nando Iannicca, one of many alarms sounded by councillors before they passed a motion to cut transit service and increase fares. The end of weekend service for one route (91), ...

Ten Implore Us To "Take A Fresh Look"
Pedestrian TV
... including returning US hits Homeland, The Good Wife, NCIS, Hawaii Five-O, Law and Order: SVU, Glee, Merlin, Modern Family and New Girl and new programs including The New Normal (a sitcom about a gay couple who yearn for a baby), Ben and Kate ...

Network Honchos Survey the New TV Season
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Salke (NBC): Andrew Rannells (The New Normal), Josh Gad (1600 Penn, mid-season). Pedowitz (The CW): Stephen Amell (Arrow), Mamie Gummer (Emily Owens, M.D.), AnnaSophia Robb (The Carrie Diaries, mid-season), Jay Ryan (Beauty and the Beast) ...

FY 2013 budgets: big projects, stable taxes
Community Impact Newspaper
Often described by Colleyville leaders as the “new normal,” city officials throughout the region have spent the past several months crafting budgets that succeed in maintaining service levels, offering new projects to residents and giving small rewards ...

Medical professional warns of risk in surrogate, donor pregnancies
DFW Catholic
Attempts to popularize such forms of medical technology, as seen in NBC's new fall sitcom “The New Normal,” are “dangerous” because they “delude us into thinking there's no risk,” she said. The show, which focuses on a same-sex couple who use a ...

AfterElton Briefs: Neil Patrick Harris Faces His Fears, Jesse Tyler Ferguson ...
AfterElton.com
Johnny Weir Vs. Honey Boo Boo. HasThat Chicken Place Abandoned Antigay Ways? In ratings news, The New Normal dipped 12% from last week. It's not cause for alarm ... yet. Cloris Leachman appeared on Watch What Happens live last night, and talked ...

Crisis management 'now a vital capability for firms and countries'
People Management Magazine Online
Dealing with crises has become the new normal in the global economy, Singapore's deputy prime minister, Tharman Shanmugaratnam, told the opening session of a conference on human capital yesterday, attended by more than 700 delegates, in Asia's ...

Chalk Up Another Big Ratings Win for NBC -- as a New Show and a Returning ...
Television Week (blog)
NBC chalked up the third-best and fourth-best numbers too, with “The New Normal” delivering a 2.2 and “Parenthood” pulling a 1.8. “The Voice” was up 13% from the 4.0 it delivered last Tuesday, while “Go On” was down slightly from a 3.3 a week earlier.

NeNe Leakes is Bigger than 'RHOA' – May be Time to Move on
Eurweb.com
NeNe is on top of the world, starring in two scripted comedies, “The New Normal” and “Glee.” She added that being associated with the bad-rapped reality series genre could be holding her back. “Just the thought of me being a 'Housewife,' [TV execs ...

TV Ratings: A Sign Of The Future? NBC Triumphs
Starpulse.com (blog)
NBC's Ryan Murphy comedy 'The New Normal' did fine in its normal time slot, attracting nearly 7 million viewers, but the Matthew Perry comedy 'Go On' did even better, netting about 9.73 million sets of eyeballs. FOX also did fairly well, with 'The X...

Starpulse.com (blog)

Leeds gets the nod as number two legal centre
Yorkshire Post
LAW firms had a busy 2011 in Leeds as the legal market began to adjust to the “new normal”, a process helped by the picking up of work priced out of London, the latest edition of the Legal 500 said today. The legal directory gave a seal of approval to ...

CTV's ANGER MANAGEMENT Is Canada's #1 New Series Premiere with 1.72 ...
Canada NewsWire (press release)
Meanwhile, the second half of CTV's new Tuesday night comedy block, THE NEW NORMAL, won its 9:30 p.m. timeslot with 942,000 viewers and was up 7% with total viewers and +24% with A25-54 versus last week. With 1.78 million viewers, CTV's THE ...

The New Normal Review: "Baby Clothes" (Episode 1.03) :: TV ...
For the first two episodes, _The New Normal_ had problem balancing the heartfelt creation of an unconventional family with the show's attempts to find humor in differences in others, insulting stereotypes and the bashing of almost all ...
Paste Magazine

'The New Normal' Recap: Baby Clothes Make the Baby | NewNowNext
By Louis Peitzman
The New Normal went into preachy overdrive this week with a little too much speechifying at the expense of jokes. Nothing wrong with walking that comedy-drama line, but you still have to make us laugh. Bryan has broken his “no buying baby ...
NewNowNext

“The New Normal” Indicates a New Trend in On-Screen Families
By Fordham Observer
According to Ryan Murphy's new NBC comedy series “The New Normal,” the definition of what is normal targets a childless homosexual couple in quest of their only missing component, and it's only one of many shows to be following that ...
Fordham Observer

Get used to 'extreme' weather, it's the new normal: 'Scentists have ...
Get used to 'extreme' weather, it's the new normal: 'Scentists have been warning us for years that a warmer planet would lead to more extreme weather, and now it's arrived' Read the Full Article ...
Climate Depot

Pop Culture Passionistas: The Cast of The New Normal Talk About ...
By Pop Culture Passionistas
The New Normal premiered last week and we just have one question to ask — what was all the fuss about? What was with the station banning the offensive content and people up in arms about showing a gay couple on TV. Is it just us or is ...
Pop Culture Passionistas

Get Used To 'Extreme' Weather, It's The New Normal | Original Carbon
By Mike Rigby
It has been a summer full of reports of extreme weather, of unparalleled scope and severity. Among the highlights: one of the warmest years on record in the US, record-high temperatures in central and eastern Europe, the wettest summer in ...
Original Carbon

Tournament Participation Packs – Past, Present, and Future - Konami
By Kevin Tewart
Tournament Pack 6 also re-introduced brand new Normal Monsters, which had been removed starting in Tournament Pack 3 to make room for the reprinted cards. When Normal Monsters returned in TP6, we focused on monsters that were ...
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GROUP LAUNCHES CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE NEW NORMAL ...
By admin
One Million Moms, the anti-gay group founded by the conservative Christian organization American Family Association, is calling for a letter-writing campaign to.
Studio Briefing

Oh No They Didn't! - It Keeps Gettin Better: TV Ratings Tuesday: 'The ...
By Bionic.
... top with total viewers. On NBC, The Voice earned a 4.5 adults 18-49 rating, up 13% from last Tuesday's 4.0. Go On scored a 3.3 18-49 rating, down 3% from a 3.4 last week. The New Normalgarnered a 2.2 among adults 18-49, down 12% …
Oh No They Didn't!

The Truth about High-Performance Analytics (Part Two) | Information ...
Our goal in dealing with this new normal of exponential data growth is to manage the relevant data's Three Vs -- Volume, Variety and Velocity -- to get to the fourth V, Value. The Four Vs allow for new ways of seeing the business. Mike Newkirk ...
IndustryWeek

Creative Minority Report: New Hobbit Trailer!!!
By matthew archbold
*subhead*"The New Normal" ain't normal.*subhead* In everything there is the Hollywood version, and then there is the reality. Unfortunately ... Things You Can't Do as a 14 Year Old. *subhead*Parental consent.*subhead* When you're 14 ...
Creative Minority Report

Ryan Murphy's 'New Normal' is stereotypically average TV - The ...
Hold dear your every conservative preconception, for Murphy attempts to assign a redefinition of the American family standard with NBC's “The New Normal.
www.michigandaily.com/arts/new-normal-tv-review

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