Before I get started, I can't ignore the tragedy of last Friday. As a human being my heart sank when the news broke on the shooting in Newton, CT. But as a parent of a four year old, I was left in a state of shock and anger. My prayers and thoughts have been with those families, the teachers, the police officers and everyone affected by this horrific incident.
Alright, now let's get into the announcements and feedback.
First off, this will be the final weekly issue of 2012. There will be no issue on Christmas week, and the way the holidays line up the next issue won't be up till 2013.
Now as has been talked about in the past few weeks, there will be a special year end edition being posted on the 31st. This will include articles, predictions countdowns and the results of the year end awards. Come over and vote on our Facebook page. New categories went up this week and the polls will close on 12/29 at midnight.
Finally, while the email bag (entertainreport@gmail.com) and Twitter (@Reilly21106) have been quiet this week, we did get a huge plug and shout out this week. @TravLord mentioned the blog on this past week's @EastCoastCast. It definitely surprised me and was much appreciated.
That's it for announcements and plugs, so let's get into this week's issue...
This week's Glee was their third annual Christmas special I have to say, while I've never seen Love Actually, I really enjoyed the format of the show. It had four separate stories that got tied in together at the end.
We then jumped to New York to find that Burt came and surprised Kurt with a tree and wanting to spend Christmas together as a family. He also surprised Kurt with Blaine which led to a romantic on ice rendition of White Christmas. I really hope this leads to a Klaine reunion. One note, Glee why must Burt always have to have a health problem? First a heart attack and now cancer, seriously he's TV's perfect dad, don't kill him off!!
Now we get to the Puckerman family reunion. While I didn't quite understand how you can get from Lima to Los Angeles and back on a bike with a side car at the blink of an eye, I really enjoyed Noah & Jake performing Hanukkah, Oh Hanukkah, just because it was so random. I did really like bringing their moms together over the hatred of their dad. I am also excited that Puck is coming back to Ohio for the rest of the year.
Moving onto the Sam/Brittany storyline. First a rant, I am so sick of the Mayan Apocalypse crap in general. While I'm glad they pretty much made fun of it here, I'm still so done. Just get over it, the works isn't going to end on the 21st. I do like Sam & Brittany in a cute way, and I thought Jingle Bell Rock was goofy and fun.
Finally we get to Marley, her mom and Sue. I really love Marley's voice and her rendition of The First Noel was so beautiful. Now as much as I've complained about the eating disorder story, I like how they pretty much wrapped it up here. Plus I love how Christmas always brings the best out of Sue. I didn't expect her and Becky to do so much but it was so sweet. Last but not least we get the big group finale, a fantastic rendition of Have Yourself A Merry Christmas. A great way to go out.
This capped off an awesome first half of season four. Next new episode isn't until the middle of January but I can't wait!
- Pre Show Match: Naomi won the Santa's Helper Battle Royal which included Tamina, Alicia Fox, Aksana, Cameron, Natalya, Kaitlyn and Layla to become #1 Contender of the WWE Divas Championship
- Team Rhodes Scolars (Cody Rhodes & Damien Sandow) defeated Rey Mysterio & Sin Cara in a tables match when Rhodes pushed Sin Cara through two tables
- Antonio Cesaro pinned R-Truth to retain the WWE United States Championship
- Kofi Kingston pinned Wade Barrett to retain the WWE Intercontinental Championship
- The Shield (Dean Ambrose, Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns) defeated Team Hell No (Daniel Bryan and Kane) and Ryback in a TLC match after Reigns pinned Bryan
- Eve pinned Naomi to retain the WWE Divas Championship
- Big Show pinned Sheamus to retain the World Heavyweight Championship in a chairs match
- Alberto Del Rio, The Miz and The Brooklyn Brawler defeated 3MB (Heath Slater, Drew McIntyre and Jinder Mahal) after Brawler summited Mahal
- Dolph Ziggler defeated John Cena in a ladder match to retain the World Heavyweight Championship Money in the Bank briefcase after AJ shoves Cena off the ladder
First of all, I really want to see the TLC match, it looks like it was a war. I'm happy The Shield won because the WWE should really be concentrating on the future in 2013.
That couldn't be more evident when Ziggler beat Cena in the ladder match after AJ helped him. This is huge. Ziggler deserves to be champion so I'm glad they didn't take the case off him.
Big Show retained after using a massive chair to lead to the pin. This works especially if the rumors of Show/Ryback are true.
As for the rest of the show, Cesaro retained to no surprise and Kingston retained and I'm glad I was wrong. I am looking forward to Hell No vs. Rhodes Scholars II coming soon.
Did Del Rio actually turn face against 3MB to tag with Miz and the Brooklyn Brawler? Yes that actually happened. Plus Naomi surprisingly won the battle royal and ended up losing to Eve. Totally random.
Now that this show is over, and the new year is upon us, we are approaching Wrestlemania season. Woot!!
- Roderick Strong pinned Michael Elgin
- Jay Lethal pinned Rhino
- R.D. Evans pinned Prince Nana
- Wrestling's Greatest Tag Team (Shelton Benjamin and Charlie Hass) defeated Rhett Titus and BJ Whitmer in a New York City Street Fight after Hass pinned Whitmer
- Mike Bennett pinned Jerry Lynn
- The American Wolves (Davey Richards and Eddie Edwards) defeated Kyle O'Reilly and Bobby Fish after the ref stopped the match
- Matt Hardy pinned Adam Cole
- The Briscoes defeated Cedric Alexander and Caprice Coleman & S.C.U.M. (Steve Corino and Jimmy Jacobs) to win the ROH Tag Team Championship after Mark Briscoe pinned Corino
- Kevin Steen defeated El Generico in a Ladder War to retain the ROH World Heavyweight Championship
Tomorrow I will be watching the replay (courtesy of a code I won from ProWrestling.Net) so I will be writing a Wrestling Afteraction, so I will address my thoughts in there.
Superstar of the Year: John Cena
Diva of the Year: AJ
Match of the Year: Wrestlemania XXVIII: Undertaker vs. Triple H
Newcomer of the Year: Ryback
Tell Me I Did Not Just See That (Most Shocking): Kofi Kingston walked on his hands to avoid Royal Rumble elimination
LOL Moment of the Year: The Rock's promo in John Cena in Boston
Kiss of the Year: John Cena & AJ
Hashtag of the Year: #FeedMeMore
The Ads blew yet another lead but this time at least won the game. After quickly being down 1-0, Gabriel Bourque scored two goals and Michael Latta added on and it was 3-1 in the 2nd. They couldn't hold the lead, and the Icehogs' Martin St. Pierre tied the game early in the third. Kevin Henderson, though, scored 1:45 into the overtime period and the Admirals won.
12/15/12-Milwaukee at Peoria
After a goalie duel between Magnus Hellberg and Mike McKenna through the first two periods of the game, Michael Latta scored 4:04 into the 3rd. The Ads though couldn't score again or hold onto the lead. The Rivermen scored three goals in 3:36 and they won the game 3-1.
12/16/12-Hamilton at Milwaukee
In a wild game between the Bulldogs and the Ads, Mark Van Guilder and Taylor Beck both tallied a goal and two assists to lead Milwaukee to a 4-3 victory.
12/19/12-Rockford at Milwaukee
Magnus Hellberg did not have a good night. After letting up three goals in the first period, including a Jeremy Morin shot from center ice. The Ads couldn't come back and lost the game 3-1 to the Icehogs.
Tomorrow night the Rockford Icehogs stay in town for the Ads last game before Christmas. Next Thursday and Friday night, the Peoria Rivermen come to town to play back to back games at the BMO Bradley Center and then the Ads finish off 2012 in Rockford the following night.
Quick Hits
- As a ratings guy, I'm intrigued by the announcement that Nielsen will include Twitter TV numbers. It might actually improve the actual legitimacy of the ratings.
Well that's it for the final official Entertainment Report if 2012.
Like always, check out my NFL Week 16 picks, especially after my rough Week 15 picks. Tomorrow look for the start of the World Juniors coverage and a new Wrestling Afteraction covering Final Battle. Also don't forget to check out the Year End Special on the morning of December 31st.
In two weeks the Report will return to the normal weekly format covering the NFL Wild Card Weekend, how the Admirals & Wave finished 2012 and much more.
Now as always you shoot an email over to entertainreport@gmail.com, like us on facebook, follow me @Reilly21106 and Scott (who took the week off for Finals) @ScottFellows23 on Twitter. Please continue to vote in the year end polls. Thank you for reading and everyone have a Merry Christmas and a safe New Year!
