Spoilers were scarce at tonight’s opening THE WALKING DEAD panel at the 30th annual Paley Center For Media William S. Paley Television Festival, aka PaleyFest, which celebrates current TV with screenings and Q &As over the next two weeks.  The festival has changed its format, apparently to accommodate a uniform start time for live […]

  It looks like we’ll never find out what that creepy Damien-like kid was doing with the genetically mutated assassin (or who Amy Irving was supposed to be), let alone what Albert Einstein’s translated final equations were talking about.  After three horribly rated episodes, including a 1.0 this week, ABC has yanked ZERO HOUR from […]

Post-Sweeps malaise. NBC:  Cleveland must be feeling pretty good about its preemptions last night, as the 9-11PM regular network schedule averaged under a 1.0 rating, with 0.9s for a new 1600 PENN and rerun SVU, and a 1.0 for an OFFICE rerun.  COMMUNITY held even at 1.1 at 8PM, followed by 0.9 for a PARKS […]

  UPDATE:  The Hollywood Reporter followed up on our story, and interviewed WKYC’s General Manager, who claims that the Matlock preemptions (which will continue next week), are merely to make up for the fact that the Academy Award telecast left Griffith out of its “In Memorium” segment.  (“We thought it would be a nice tribute.”)  […]

  CW has clarified that the May 13 episode of its rebooted 90210 will be its series finale, not just the end of its 5th season.  Although CW likes to give its veteran shows a farewell lap on the way out (as Gossip Girl had earlier this season), 90210 earned its abrupt exit with ratings […]

  FOX has become the 2nd network (after CW’s announcement yesterday) to schedule its season finales: THURSDAY MARCH 28 9PM:  Raising Hope FRIDAY APRIL 26 9PM:  Touch MONDAY APRIL 29 8PM:  Bones 9PM:  The Following TUESDAY MAY 7 9PM:  New Girl 9:30PM:  The Mindy Project THURSDAY MAY 9 9PM:  Glee SUNDAY MAY 12 8:30PM:  Bob’s […]

  It won’t surprise anyone if last night’s episode of GUYS WITH KIDS turns out to be not just its season finale but its farewell to the airwaves.  The show has struggled with ratings in the low 1s all season, and although that’s not particularly worse than its hour-mate Whitney, when it comes to Guys, […]

February sweeps comes to an end. NBC:  The Peacock may have had a sweeps of historically awful proportions (as has been widely reported, this is the first time ever that a major English-language network has lost to Univision during a sweeps month–and it wasn’t close), but there was a tiny bit of good news last […]