On its second week, Moonlight's ratings went down from it's debut week and was the lowest rated CBS show last Friday, but it finished way in front of the second season premiere of Friday Night Lights.  It received a 5.4 rating/10 share compared to Friday Night Light's 4.2/7 according to Nielsen.

Despite the decline from its maiden telecast, Moonlight is getting strong word of mouth promotion aside from the significant marketing it continues to receive from the network.  Aside from this, advertisements for the show have been popping up on the glass doors of frozen food sections in various supermarkets.  A few days before it premiered last September 28, CBS and Warner Bros. took several journalists from Monsters and Critics on a tour of the sets used for Moonlight.  Here's what some of the series' lead stars had to say about their program.

“What I do like about this series is that the vampires in it look and act subtly, and how the producers illuminate the dynamic and back-story through flashbacks for Mick and Coraline,” Shannyn Sossamon, who plays Coraline, the vampire who sired Moonlight's central character, Mick St. John, said.

Meanwhile, Australian Alex O'Loughlin, who stars as Mick, discussed his efforts at assuming various accents for his character.

“The easiest American accents - the east coast accent comes very naturally to me,” Moonlight's resident vampire detective said.  “That New York, Philly and even the Southern accent for an Aussie palate are the two distinct ones that I had no problem with…then the most difficult one, the Glaswegian Scottish accent - it's the funniest accent I have ever heard.”

For her part, British Sophia Myles spoke about how she and her leading man have formed a close relationship owing to the fact that both of them are imports from other lands. 

“We've developed a real camaraderie, we are both foreigners here,” Myles stated.


-Rosario Santiago, BuddyTV Staff Columnist
Source: Zap2it, New York Post, Monster and Critics
(Image Courtesy of New York Post)