NY Times Bestseller List - Fiction 12/01/2013

New York Times Bestseller List

Hardback Fiction

Week Ending December 1st 2013

10 - The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion - Fannie Flagg
(2 weeks on list)

9  -  Mirage - Clive Cussler and Jack Du Brul
(2 weeks on list)

8  -  The Longest Ride - Nicholas Sparks
(9 weeks on list)

7 -  The Valley of Amazement - Amy Tan
(2 weeks on list)

6  -  Doctor Sleep - Stephen King
(8 weeks on list)

5  -  The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
(4 weeks on list)

4  -  White Fire - Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
(Debut)
Special agent Pendergast discovers that the killing of several miners 150 years ago my be related to deadly arson attacks at a Colorado ski resort.

3  -  Dust - Patricia Cornwell
(Debut)
The murder of a computer engineer at M.I.T. leads the Massachusetts Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta in unexpected directions.

2  -  Sycamore Row - John Grisham
(4 weeks on list) (3 at #1)

1  -  The First Phone Call From Heaven - Mitch Albom
(DEBUT)
A small Michigan town is transformed when its residents receive phone calls said to be from Heaven.

Japan Billboard Hot 100 - Top 20 (2013/11/25)

Gunsmoke on Radio and Television

Time for this week's double dose of Gunsmoke.  As always its the radio version followed up by the television version of the same episode.
This week we see the basic idea of the radio episode used on tv but the writers (Endre Bohem and Louis Vittes) took the John Meston's original storyline in a different direction and substituted different characters as the protagonist.  The did work in Miss Kitty to be rescued and only the bad guy dies such were the changes beginning on Gunsmoke's tv version.
The radio episode features legendary voice actor Ralph Moody as "Tobiel" the Indian.

Another big thank you to Buck Benny and his tremendous podcast that helps bring you this radio treat every week.  Follow him and hear all the classic radio shows Jack Benny, Fred Allen, Suspense, Phil Harris, Bing Crosby and many more surprises each week. 
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Kick Me

originally aired November 28th 1953

Season 2 episode 12

CBS Radio

Kick Me

Originally aired January 26th 1957

Season 2 episode 18

CBS Television

Billboard Korea K-POP Top50 11/20/2013

Gunsmoke on Radio and TV (Custer)

This time we hear and see the episode from Gunsmoke :

Custer

Originally aired November 21st 1953

Season 2

Episode 11

CBS Radio

Custer

Originally Aired September 22nd 1956

Season 2

Episode 3

CBS Television

NY Times Bestseller List - Nonfiction 11/17/2013

New York Times Bestseller List

Hardback Non Fiction

Week Ending November 17th 2013

10 - History Decoded - Brad Meltzer
(2 weeks on list)
Ten historical mysteries based on the History Channel show "Brad Meltzer's Decoded".

9  -  Si-Cology 1 - Si Robertson with Mark Schlabach
(9 weeks on list)

8  -  The Reason I Jump - Naoki Higashida
(6 weeks on list)

7  -  Johnny Carson - Henry Bushkin
(3 weeks on list)

6  -  40 Chances - Howard G. Buffett and Howard W. Buffett
(2 weeks on list)
What Warren Buffett's son and grandson have learned in their efforts to feed the hungry.

5  -  I Am Malala - Malala Yousafzai
(4 weeks on list)

4  -  The Death of Santini - Pat Conroy
(Debut)
In this memoir, Conroy mourns the abusive father on whom "The Great Santini" was based

3  -  David and Goliath - Malcolm Gladwell
(5 weeks on list)

2  -  Things That Matter - Charles Krauthammer
(2 weeks on list)
Three decades' worth of essays from the conservative columnist.

1  -  Killing Jesus - Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard
(6 weeks on list)
The host of "The O'Reilly Factor" recounts the events leading up to Jesus' exececution.

Top 20 Network Nielsen Ratings - 11/17/2013

Nielsen Prime Time Network Ratings

Top 20 

Week Ending November 17th 2013

1 - Sunday Night Football (Broncos vs Chiefs)  NBC
2 - NCIS   CBS
3 - The Big Bang Theory  CBS
4 - The OT   FOX
5 - NCIS: Los Angeles  CBS
6 - Football Night in America  NBC
7 - Person of Interest   CBS
8 - Dancing with the Stars   ABC
9 - The Voice  (Monday)  NBC
10 - 60 Minutes   CBS
11 - Blue Bloods  CBS
12 - The Voice (Tuesday) NBC
13 - Criminal Minds   CBS
14 - The Millers   CBS
15 - Modern Family   ABC
16 - The Blacklist   NBC
17 - CSI   CBS
18 - Castle   ABC
19 - Hawaii Five-O   CBS
20 - Survivor   CBS

NY Times Bestseller List - Fiction 11/17/2013

New York Times Bestseller List

Hardback Fiction

Week Ending November 17th 2013

10 - Identical - Scott  Turow
(3 weeks on list)

9  -  We Are Water - Wally Lamb
(2 weeks on list)

8  -  S - Doug Dorst
(Debut)
In a project conceived by the writer and director J.J. Abrams, the facsimile of a novel published in 1949 contains marginal annotations, postcards, newspaper clippings and other objects.  Two of the annotators are students who flirt and spar and begin to decode the novels mystery.

7  -  Accused - Lisa Scottoline
(Debut)
Mary DiNunzio is now a partner at the all-women Philadelphia law firm of Rosato and Associates.

6  -  The Longest Ride - Nicholas Sparks
(7 weeks on list)

5  -  Doctor Sleep - Stephen King
(6 weeks on list)

4  -  Winners - Danielle Steel
(Debut)
Six people with intertwined lives, among them an aspiring Olympic skier who is gravely injured, struggle to surmount challenges.

3  -  The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
(2 weeks on list)

2  -  After Dead - Charlaine Harris
(Debut)
A coda to the Sookie Stackhouse novels that inspired "True Blood".

1  -  Sycamore Row - John Grisham
(2 weeks on list) (2nd consecutive week at #1)

Billboard Korea K-POP Top50 11/13/2013

NY Times Bestseller List - Hardback Fiction 11/10/2013

New York Times Bestseller List

Hardback Fiction

Week Ending November 10th 2013

10 - Just One Evil Act - Elizabeth George
(2 weeks on list)
In the 18th Inspector Lynley novel, Lynley's partner Barbara Havers searchs for a friend's kidnapped child in Italy.

9  -  Bridget Jones : Mad About the Boy - Helen Fielding
(2 weeks on list)
Bridget, now 51 and a mother and widow, is once again looking for love.

8  -  Gone - James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge
(4 weeks on list)

7  -  Storm Front - John Sanford
(3 weeks on list)

6  -  Identical - Scott Turow
(2 weeks on list)
Paul Giannis running for mayor of Kindle County, is accused of having played a role in the murder of his identical twin brother's girlfriend - for which his brother, Cass, has already served time.

5  -  The Longest Ride - Nicholas Sparks
(6 weeks on list)

4  -  We Are Water - Wally Lamb
(Debut)
About to marry the woman who is her gallery owner, a divorced artist and mother must confront secrets from her past.

3  -  Doctor Sleep - Stephen King
(5 weeks on list) (Last week's #1)

2  -  The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
(Debut)
A painting smuggled out of the Metropolitan Museum of Art after a bombing becomes a boy's prized, guilt and burden.

1  -  Sycamore Row - John Grisham
(DEBUT)
A sequel, about race and inheritance, to "A Time to Kill".  

Gunsmoke on Radio and Television

Tonight we again visit Dodge City 

Today:

(and yes they used this title twice)

How To Kill a Woman

aired 10/31/1953

Season 2  episode 6

CBS Radio

How To Kill a Woman

aired 11/30/1957

Season 3 episode 12

CBS Television

(This was Gunsmoke's first of 4 consecutive seasons as the #1 show on prime time network TV)

In Case You Missed It

Yesterday was the 152nd running of the Melbourne Cup, in Melbourne Australia.  The annual race held the first Tuesday in November and was made worldwide famous by the movie/horse Phar Lap.

This year's race saw the favorite Fiorente, with jockey Damien Oliver, outrun 23 other contenders to win the coveted Melbourne Cup.

The UK Official Chart - Top 50 Songs (11/02/2013)

UK Official Chart

Top 50 Songs

Week Ending November 2nd 2013

Nielsen Prime Time Network TV Ratings

The Nielsen Prime Time Network TV Ratings 

Week ending October 27th 2013

The Top 20 in Total Viewship

1 - NCIS   CBS

2 - The Big Bang Theory  CBS

3 - Sunday Night Football   NBC

4 - The World Series : Game 4   FOX

5 - The OT   FOX

6 - NCIS: Los Angeles   CBS

7 - The World Series : Game 1  FOX

8 - The Voice  (Monday)  NBC

9 - The World Series : Game 2  FOX

10 - Dancing with the Stars   ABC

11 - Person of Interest  CBS

12 - The Voice (Tuesday)  NBC

13 - The World Series : Game 3  FOX

14 - Criminal Minds   CBS

15 - Blue Bloods   CBS

16 - The Millers   CBS

17 - Castle   ABC

18 - CSI   CBS

19 - Blacklist  NBC

20 - Modern Family  ABC