Posts Tagged ‘ABC’
 

 

The Sked: Tuesday Week 8 — A Particularly Weak Night

After two atypical Tuesdays (Election Night and a two-hour Voice the week before), NBC has come back down to a 2.6 rating with adults 18-49 on Tuesday (below the 3.3 Tuesday average so far this season), just slightly ahead of...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

THE SKED: Summer Broadcast Ratings Update August 8-14

>The broadcast week just concluded (August 8-14) was won by FOX, thanks to the finale of So You Think You Can Dance and NFL Preseason football on Friday (Tampa Bay at Kansas City).  The 1.6 rating for football does not sou...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

The Sked: Monday Ratings — Solid Debut for The Following

CBS won Monday with a 3.1 adult 18-49 rating from 8-11 pm, down from last week’s season high for Monday (3.3) and tied with the second-highest CBS Monday rating (also 3.1 on 11.26, 12.10 and 12.17).  How I Met Your Mothe...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

The Sked: PREMIERING TONIGHT: Don’t Trust the B- in Apt 23 REVIEW

>Premiering tonight after Modern Family on ABC (at 9:30/ 8:30 Central) is Don’t Trust the B- in Apt. 23 (formerly titled Don’t Trust the Bitch in Apt. 23 or simply Apt. 23 during the upfront season last year, when t...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED: The Full 4-Network Fall TV Schedule

  Here it is, your Fall 2013 network TV schedule.  Watch this space, because next week we’ll be bringing you night-by-night ratings predictions of which shows will win their hours and which are likely to perish.  B...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

PREMIERING TONIGHT–THE SKED’S FALL PILOT REPORT: ABC’s “Last Resort”

  LAST RESORT: Thursday 8PM on ABC – Potential DVR Alert The strangest new show on any network this season may be LAST RESORT, created and written by the man behind The Shield, Shawn Ryan, with Karl Gajdusek. The pro...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

The Sked: MAY SWEEP UPDATE Three Weeks Down, One To Go

With 21 nights in for the May Sweep (official ratings for April 26-May 15 and fast national ratings for May 16), the race is starting to solidify.  FOX will be able to claim victory in May, but CBS remains the only network wit...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

Broadcast Network Ratings — The Rough Season Continues

Week 37 of the broadcast season (May 28-June 3) recently concluded, the first full week of summer as defined by the broadcasters with almost all scripted shows in repeats and summer reality shows dominating the airwaves.  The ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

The Sked: Accelerating Broadcast Declines & Forecast Full Season Ratings

>The ugly second half of the 2011-12 television season rolls on, and its not getting any prettier for the broadcast networks.  In fact, the combined rating for the broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX) the past two we...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

Broadcast Weekly & Summer Averages through August 26

CBS is looking like a 1.50 rating for the week of August 20-26, enough for a share of first place this week but down 10% from the same week last year.  The NFL preseason games last year were a 2.0 on Friday (GB at IND) and 1.8...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

THE SKED: Summer Broadcast Ratings Update through July 31

>The broadcast week just concluded (July 25-31) had absolute parity between the three original broadcast networks, while FOX was able to put together a weekly lead of three-tenths of a rating point.  The twi...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

The Sked: Declining Network Ratings — How Bad Are They?

>For the past several weeks, “season low” and “down sharply from last year” have been repeated phrases in our daily ratings posts, mostly for broadcast network programs but also for cable programs, as we...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Suburgatory”

  SUBURGATORY:  Wednesday 9:30PM on ABC WHERE WE WERE:  Meeting Grandma.  In the season finale, having survived her first year in the titular Chatswin, Tessa (Jane Levy) met her long-absent mother’s mom–on M...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED: Summer Broadcast Ratings Update August 1-7

>The broadcast week just concluded (August 1-7) had ABC and FOX battling for first place in Adults 18-49 (such as first place is in the dead of summer).  FOX came down because Sunday’s animated comedies (usually...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED’S BUSTED PILOT THEATRE: “Identity”

> See A Word About Busted Pilots IDENTITY is so clearly a Jerry-Bruckheimer-for-CBS procedural that it comes as a shock to realize that it was neither produced by Bruckheimer nor developed for CBS.  In fact, Mark Gordon...
by Mitch Salem