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We said ABC would be wearing a smiley face after
last night’s fine numbers, and the network wasted no time in acting on the good news.
REVENGE and
SUBURGATORY have received full-season back orders, and
HAPPY ENDINGS (which was a midseason show last year, so didn’t have a full order this season) has a 6-script order with an eye toward keeping it in continuous production. No one can argue with any of this; even if FOX has been narrowly winning Wednesdays with
X Factor (when it’s not burdened with baseball), the ABC line-up is very solid, and although
Revenge is still something of a question mark, the night is likely to remain so.
Of course, that doesn’t solve the network’s crumbling Sunday (they have to hope ONCE UPON A TIME isn’t caught in the wreckage of Desperate Housewives), nor the fear that DANCING WITH THE STARS may not recover from its current badly-rated cycle, not to mention the fact that at some point (very possibly tomorrow) it’ll be time to cancel CHARLIE’S ANGELS. But it’s a start.
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Preliminary ratings are delayed by Nielsen until at least 9:30 am PT (90 minutes past due). The ratings service is performing extra “quality checks,” so be prepared for unusually high quality ratings later this morning!
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Mitch Salem
MITCH SALEM has worked on the business side of the entertainment industry for 20 years, as a senior business affairs executive and attorney for such companies as NBC, ABC, USA, Syfy, Bravo, and BermanBraun Productions, and before that, at the NY law firm of Weil, Gotshal & Manges. During all that, he has more or less constantly been going to the movies and watching TV, and writing about both since the 1980s. His film reviews also currently appear on screened.com and the-burg.com. In addition, he is co-writer of an episode of the television series "Felicity."
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