NBC’s curse continues. NBC:  The network really thought it had something with the dating show READY FOR LOVE, promoting it like crazy and clearing Tuesdays of Go On, The New Normal and Smash so it could pair 2-hour episodes with THE VOICE.  But last night’s blah result was a 1.6, and as Mitch Metcalf […]

World Series Game 6 on Tuesday 11.1.2016 came very close to Sunday’s Game 5, which was a much more competitive game.  Despite a lack of suspense last night, Game 6 is still among the better Game 6 audiences in the past decade.  The ratings for the previous Game 6 telecasts since 2006, as well as […]

  Tonight’s originally scheduled episode of HANNIBAL, entitled “Ceuf,” was pulled from the US air by NBC (it will air elsewhere in the world) because of its main storyline, which involved children induced to kill other children.  Since Hannibal tells a somewhat serialized story, however, the network has stripped out that storyline (or “cannibalized,” as […]

  The biggest surprise from CW wasn’t any one of its pilot orders–it was the decision to renew THE CARRIE DIARIES, a show that showed little ratings promise in its first season.  Apparently the explanation is that the series does very well on Hulu, and rates strongly with the younger segment of CW’s female demo.  […]

  BETRAYAL will be the latest inhabitant of ABC’s Sunday 10PM soap hour, trying to outdo such recent occupants as GCB, Red Widow, 666 Park Avenue and Pan Am.  It stars Hannah Ware as the wife of a prosecutor who discovers too late that the man she’s having an affair with is the defense attorney […]

DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary 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). ###

  We’ve arrived at Friday in our tour of the fall primetime schedule, and former head of NBC Scheduling Mitch Metcalf, former head of NBC Current Programming Ted Frank and I have our predictions ready.  (Here are our predictions for Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.)  Friday is the least-watched (other than barely-programmed Saturday) and least dramatic […]

  Not even the NBA Finals could hold its own this low-watched summer. ABC:  Thanks to the NBA FINALS GAME 1, ABC was up 267% for the night versus the same Thursday last year, but that’s apples and oranges.  A more meaningful comparison is Thursday, June 14, 2012, which also featured an NBA Finals game.  Last […]