Sunday’s numbers won’t be fully in until tomorrow, but bits of information are starting to arrive about some of last night’s event telecasts: In its simulcast airing on 9 cable networks owned by FOX, COSMOS added 0.8 to its FOX broadcast score among 18-49s, giving it a 2.9 total. That’s a nice bump, but […]
FOX issued some glad tidings on Friday with the group renewals of Brooklyn Nine-Nine, The Mindy Project, New Girl and The Following, and today it was time for another shoe to fall. The network announced that the one-hour April 4 season finale of quirky sitcom RAISING HOPE will in fact be its series finale, […]
The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday March 8 and Sunday March 9, 2014. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. NASCAR 4.1 rating FOX 3:15 pm Sunday Las Vegas 400 (-7% from 4.4 last year) […]
BELIEVE: Sunday 9PM on NBC (Premiere Monday 10PM on March 10) – If Nothing Else Is On… Movie wizard and newly-minted Best Director Oscar winner Alfonso Cuaron is the co-creator of BELIEVE (although it was never intended that he would stay with the show on a day-to-day basis once it went to series) and […]
RESURRECTION: Sunday 9PM on ABC – Potential DVR Alert The restrained tension of RESURRECTION‘s pilot may remind you of early, suburban Spielberg, and of M. Night Shyamalan before he became a punchline. The premise, based on a novel called “The Returned” by Jason Mott (and also perhaps inspired by the unrelated French miniseries that ran […]
HANNIBAL‘s appetite decreased last night. NBC: DATELINE started the night fairly strongly at 1.5, up 0.3 from last week, and GRIMM was up 0.1 to 1.5. But HANNIBAL crashed to 0.8, down 0.3 from last week’s season premiere, and just slightly above last year’s season finale (which aired after the regular season was over). […]
FOX’s cancellation of THE X FACTOR means that it starts next fall knowing that it has 3 hours of primetime to fill. The network isn’t going to want much more than that on its plate–for marketing reasons, if nothing else–which today proved to be good news for some of its bubble shows. Both BROOKLYN […]
AFTERNOON UPDATE: Everything on CBS except THE CRAZY ONES moved by 0.1, with THE BIG BANG THEORY and ELEMENTARY up, and THE MILLERS and 2 1/2 MEN down. ONCE UPON A TIME IN WONDERLAND found an extra 0.1, not that it’s going to help. In the race not to be canceled, PARKS & RECREATION […]