actually watching: 1. How I Met Your Mother 2. Mad Men 3. Californication 4. South Park 5. Hung (but it sucks) and some old stuff waiting for the new season: Chuck waiting to start: Treme (march) Boardwalk Empire (next year) The Pacific (january?)
It's a tradition here. I thought ratings were used anywhere, but it seems to be only an italian feature (maybe in Germany they use them too). Anyway, on http://www.goal.com/ you can find players' ratings of all the main european leagues.