News, Reviews & Commentary on Gay and Bisexual Men in Entertainment and the Media
Home » Blogs » Brent Hartinger's blog » The AfterElton.com Ranking Roundup: "Ugly" is sitting pretty

The AfterElton.com Ranking Roundup: "Ugly" is sitting pretty

by
Brent Hartinger

Welcome to the AfterElton.com Ranking Roundup, a regular feature where we round up the rankings from various sources as to what is, and isn't, hot in gay male entertainment!

Top Rated Gay TV Shows

(from Nielsen, for week ending 11/9)

1. Dancing with the Stars, Monday/Tuesday (17.1, 15.6 million viewers, down 10%)
2. Survivor: Gabon (12 million viewers, down 8%)
3. Brothers & Sisters (10.1 million viewers, up 10%)
4. Ugly Betty (8.9 million viewers, up 3%)
5. As the World Turns (for week ending 10/31, 2.5 million viewers, down 12%)
6. Privileged (1.9, unchanged)

 

Brothers & Sisters' ratings may be up from last week, but they're down from this point last year — probably due to a weaker lead-in from Desperate Housewives, which is also down (B&S's terrible storylines probably aren't helping).

Ugly Betty's ratings were down last year, but now that it's reaching an all-time creative high (and now that Lindsay Lohan is gone!), viewers may — knock on wood — slowly be creeping back.

More ratings and analysis after the jump!

Top-Grossing Gay Movies of All Time

(US Gross, from BoxOfficeMojo.com)

1. The Birdcage, $124 million
2. Brokeback Mountain, $83 million
3. Philadelphia, $77.5 million
4. In & Out, $63.8 million
5. Alexander, $34.3 million
6. The Object of My Affection, $29.2 million
7. Rent, $29 million
8. Capote, $28.7 million
9. Victor/Victoria, $28.2 million
10. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, $25 million

 

Next month's highly anticipated release, Milk, seems guaranteed to make this list somewhere, but will the movie's terrific buzz translate into break-out box office success?

Top 10 Gay Rentals

(from Netflix)

1. Brokeback Mountain
2. Kinsey
3. The History Boys
4. Angels in America
5. A Home at the End of the World
6. Hedwig and the Angry Inch
7. Mysterious Skin
8. Before Night Falls
9. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
10. Philadelphia

 

The movie adaptation of the Michael Cunningham novel A Home at the End of the World tanked in theaters, but is finding new life on DVD (thanks, in part, to Colin Farrell's brief nude scene, no doubt). And no matter where it sits on the charts, Hedwig rules! See it now.

  • Brent Hartinger's blog
  • Login or register to post comments
    • Submitted by
    Brent Hartinger
    on Wed, 2008-11-12 15:19.
    TAGS :: 
    zanefan's picture

    Oy

    Submitted by
    zanefan (1158 points) (259 posts)
    on Wed, 2008-11-12 16:20.

    Sometimes it feels like I'm watching different shows than y'all...

    Brothers and Sisters' "terrible storylines?"  This show is consistently good.  It has its weak points, yes (Senator Holier Than Thou And His Wife) but overall it delivers on a weekly basis.  It's still appointment viewing in our household.

    Ugly Betty reaching an "all time creative high?"  Really?  Come on.  The show's improving from the slump of the post-writer's strike, true, but it's far from being the laugh-a-minute charmfest it was during the first season and a half.  There was a time when I would come to work on Friday morning and EVERYONE in the office was quoting one-liners from the previous night's Betty and laughing hysterically.

    Now we just talk about how it's "getting better" but the magic is still missing.

     

    Average (1 vote):
    see individual ratings
    Brent Hartinger's picture

    I only speak for myself...

    Submitted by
    Admin
    Brent Hartinger (345 points) (764 posts)
    on Wed, 2008-11-12 16:30.
    not everyone at AfterElton.com (where we truly do disagree on all these shows, often). But I thought last week's episode of UGLY BETTER--"I should have known when he said I was beautiful, he meant on the INSIDE..."--was one of the show's best ever. As for BROTHERS & SISTERS, it's true I'm not a good judge, since I've always found the show to be terrible (though it does seem worse this year); I based my comments on what seemed to be a consensus among the readers here. But who knows? It's all pretty subjective, isn't it?

     

     

     

    Read my books! Explore "Brent's Brain" at http://www.brenthartinger.com no votes

    see individual ratings

    Home » Blogs » Brent Hartinger's blog » The AfterElton.com Ranking Roundup: "Ugly" is sitting pretty