Even at HBO, someone has to watch your show.  The network announced today that ENLIGHTENED won’t be returning for a third season.  The Mike White/Laura Dern dramedy earned its share of praise, but its Season 2 finale was watched by 200,000 people–and that’s not 18-49s, that’s the total number of people in America who […]

  BATES MOTEL had a very solid start on A&E last night, with a total viewership in its initial airing of 3 million, a number that rose healthily to 4.6 million with the night’s rerun included.  It also skewed fairly young for a show that takes its inspiration from a 52-year old movie, with more […]

  NBC has joined CBS, FOX and CW in announcing the dates of its 2012-13 season finales (some of which, in NBC’s case, extend beyond the end of the regular season): WEDNESDAY MARCH 27 8PM:  Whitney (1-hour finale) THURSDAY MARCH 28 8:30PM:  1600 Penn TUESDAY APRIL 2 9PM:  The New Normal (1-hour finale) THURSDAY APRIL […]

  The Sked’s State of the Network Reports:  NBC, CBS and ABC We already know quite a bit about the 2013-14 FOX network schedule, because it’s going to be very similar to this season’s.  FOX has already renewed its Sunday animation block, Bones, The Following, Raising Hope, New Girl, The Mindy Project, X-Factor, American Idol–and […]

  A night of entrances and exits. ABC:  The Spring premiere of DANCING WITH THE STARS hit a season high 3.1, but that was down 0.4 from last year’s spring launch (even though that one had to face The Voice, as did this season’s fall cycle).  Despite the better lead-in, CASTLE was down a tick […]

  HBO reports that the initial airing of last night’s GIRLS Season 2 finale was watched by 632,000 total viewers.  That’s down about 37% from the Season 1 finale last year, and down about 27% from the Season 2 premiere–and even down 7% from the previous week, an odd result for a season finale but […]

Ten weeks into 2013, the North American box office continues to track as a B-level year (nearly identical to 2008 and 2011), well below recent A-level years (2009, 2010 and 2012).  To date, 2013 totals $1.528 billion for wide-release films, while 2008 was $1.519 billion at this point and 2011 was $1.482 billion. The stronger […]

  The Sked’s State Of the Network Reports:  NBC and CBS Two good things, and only two, have happened to ABC in 2013.  One is Scandal.  The other is that NBC’s implosion has been so absolute and riveting (and it never stops) that ABC has been in something like a Network Protection Program by comparison. […]