ABC should send a nice thank-you note to NBC, because the marginal but sufficient success of THE NEIGHBORS and SCANDAL, both of which received full-season 22 episode orders today, is directly due to the weakness of the Peacock competition.  (Note:  Scandal needed a back-order to reach 22 episodes because although it started last season, […]

> Merry Christmas, CHUCK. NBC:  With the only original scripted hour of television on the networks last night, and facing nothing but repeats in its timeslot, Chuck‘s present was a 0.1 rise from last week, and the network’s highest rating of the night (albeit a 1.0 that still left it in 2d place for its […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  Reruns at 0.33/0.25 were followed by an ABC NEWS SPECIAL at 0.28. CBS:  Reruns at 0.28/0.24/0.20. NBC:  THE WHEEL was at 0.31, followed by a rerun at 0.39 and an NBC NEWS SPECIAL at 0.38. FOX:  WWE SMACKDOWN rose 0.09 to 0.64. CW:  A rerun at 0.04. TELEMUNDO:  EXATLON ticked up […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  Final numbers weren’t kind today, with 0.1 drops for MOM, POWERLESS, CHICAGO MED and THE BLACKLIST: REDEMPTION.           Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Basketball took up half of the Top 14 slots on Thursday cable, with the NBA in the […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  As we noted yesterday, we’ll now be comparing preliminary ratings in tenths to final numbers in hundredths.  ABC’s NBA game was way up in finals, from an early 1.1 to a final 1.82.  With the help of a late-afternoon NFL lead-in, FOX’s WWE SMACKDOWN was also up (from 0.8 […]

  See Also:  THE SKED’s Pre-Upfront Projected NBC Fall 2013 Schedule We’re continuing with SHOWBUZZDAILY‘s versions of the Fall 2013 network schedules, which may or may not reflect what the networks will actually announce at their Upfront presentations the week of May 13  These schedules, as usual, were put together by Mitch Metcalf and myself, […]

  THE AMERICANS rebounded a bit in the ratings last night, rising to a 0.8 after 2 weeks of declines, but even if it had just held steady, FX would probably have awarded it a Season 2 renewal any time now.  As it is, the announcement was made today, since at 0.8 it was a […]

> FRINGE, having watched Monty Python & the Holy Grail, shouts “I’m not dead!” as the gravediggers try to take it away. CBS:  An extremely soft win for the night (1.6 average).  UNDERCOVER BOSS was down 0.4 from its season premiere, A GIFTED MAN (in its penultimate episode, at least for this season) was down […]