> WARNING:  Scaaaarrrry Spoilers Within You have to give AMERICAN HORROR STORY the credit of its crazy, crazy convictions.  Ryan Murphy and his gang of producers followed through on where the last few episodes appeared to be going, and the result will be a second season presumably very different from its first. It didn’t take […]

  ENLISTED has been curiously scheduled, placed in the hinterlands of 9:30PM on Fridays after Raising Hope, where the upside is that at least expectations will be low  The show is written by Kevin Biegel, whose previous series have included Scrubs and Cougar Town, and it stars Geoff Stults as one of a trio of […]

>Deadline reports that NBC has pushed the launch of its scripted Friday shows CHUCK and GRIMM by a week, from October 21 to October 28.  Supposedly this is to give the series the benefit of a 2-day Halloween marketing push to begin with the network airing holiday-themed episodes of its Thursday comedies on October 27, […]

  A mostly steady night. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary live+same day key advertiser demographics (adult 18-34, 18-49 and 25-54 ratings), audience skews (women 18-49, men 18-49 and adults 50+ shares) and total viewership (thousands of people over the age of 2). Ratings analysis and comparisons follow […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  CBS’s NFL PLAYOFFS game adjusted to 7.9.  Elsewhere, the entire NBC line-up adjusted:  the WILL & GRACE rerun down 0.3 to 1.5, the SUPERSTORE rerun down 0.3 to 0.8, DATELINE down 0.3 to 0.6, and the SNL rerun down 0.1 to 0.8.           Broadcast Official Nationals […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  ABC’s NBA game adjusted to 0.57.  In addition, the rerun of GAME OF TALENTS adjusted to the next tenth, and the rerun of LAW & ORDER: ORGANIZED CRIME adjusted to the next-lowest tenth.          Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Fox Sports […]

  AFTERNOON UPDATE:  The only move from this morning was a 0.1 hike for THE BACHELOR to 2.5. MONDAY CABLE:  DALLAS (TNT) had a decent Season 3 return at 0.8 in 18-49s–below last season’s premiere and finale, but in line with the season average.  Total viewers, at 2.7M, were at a similar level.  WWE (USA) […]

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