Posts Tagged ‘back orders’
 

 

NIELSENWAR: A Veterans Day Look At Veteran Network Series

  NOTE:  Season To Date and Network Week-to-Week Charts Are Below With today’s CW announcement that THE ORIGINALS, REIGN and THE TOMORROW PEOPLE have received full back orders, we know where we are with just about a...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED: Good News for “Sean Saves the World” and Seth MacFarlane

  It’s entirely possible that SEAN SAVES THE WORLD will never again hit the 1.4 rating it had last night (at least not unless NBC gives it The Voice as a lead-in again), so the network seized the opportunity of a les...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED: “Agents of SHIELD” Keeps Avenging

  ABC gave a back order to AGENTS OF SHIELD today, and of course that makes sense, since the show’s most recent 2.9 rating was considerably higher than the 2.2 the network was getting with the Dancing With the Stars ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED: Clean-Up Day Continues – “666 Park” Goes To Hell, “Last Resort” Sinks

  We may not always know for whom the bell tolls, but for low-rated network shows, today is the day it’s tolling.  ABC has seen and raised CBS’s cancellation of Partners this morning by executing both 666 PARK...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED: “Guys” With More Episodes and the Sad State of Network Back Orders

  Today’s announcement by NBC that GUYS WITH KIDS has received a 4-episode back order (making for a season total of 17 episodes) seems to require some note. In last night’s ratings, Guys had a 1.3 rating in 18-...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED: More Bad “Neighbors” Scripts On the Way

  Typically when a network orders additional scripts for a series, it does so at the Writers Guild minimum, so it’s a very minimal investment compared to ordering additional episodes–thousands rather than milli...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED’S NIELSENWAR: The First Back Orders

  NBC understandably wants to shout its early-season good tidings as loudly as possible, and to that end it’s given very quick back orders (9 additional episodes on top of the 13-episode initial order) to REVOLUTION,...
by Mitch Salem