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THE SKED’S SCHEDULE: CBS

  Mitch Metcalf and I, along with veteran network executive Ted Frank, have put together our own versions of the schedules (the real ones will be announced at the nework Upfronts in New York next week). We’ve already...
by Mitch Salem
 
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The Sked: SATURDAY RATINGS June 16 — U.S. Open Golf Decent

NBC won Saturday night with a 1.5 preliminary Adults 18-49 rating (subject to upward revision due to the live broadcast feed to the west coast).  Coverage of the third round of the U.S. Open golf championship from Olympic Club...
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THE SKED: Summer Broadcast Ratings Update August 22-28

>The broadcast week just concluded (August 22-28) was all about NFL preseason football again.  FOX did not have any games this week and has lost MasterChef, dropping the network’s weekly average to around a 1.2 ̵...
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SKEDBALL: March Madness TV Ratings through the First Thursday

CBS had a terrific start to the NCAA Men’s Basketball tournament with its two late games Thursday, right around 5.5 million viewers ages 2+.  These audience levels are among the best ratings for this day in recent years:...
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THE SKED: 1st Pre-Look At CBS’s New Comedies

>DISCLAIMER: These initial impressions are based on the clips (usually 3-5 minutes) released by the networks to use in their Upfront presentations and for promos.  They’re chosen to sell the show, not to accurately r...
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The Sked: THURSDAY RATINGS May 24 — Summer Begins

FOX won the first night of summer with a 2.4 preliminary rating with Adults 18-49 for the two-hour premiere of So You Think You Can Dance from 8-10 pm.  This is down a disappointing 27% from last summer’s 3.3-rated pre...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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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
 
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THE SKED’S PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “Elementary”

A lot can happen between the creation of a TV pilot in the spring and the production of episodes for the regular season: a writing/producing team is hired, audience focus groups weigh in, networks and studios (which may have ha...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED’S NIELSENWAR CHRONICLES: Week 1

  So:  what do we know now that we didn’t know a week ago? THE SWALLOWS AREN’T RETURNING TO CAPISTRANO.  Generally speaking, the TV season has a dynamic that repeats each year.  Every fall, viewers turn up i...
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SKEDBALL: March Madness TV Ratings through First Friday

Through Friday, the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament is averaging almost 8.5 million persons 2+ live+same day on CBS and three Turner networks (TNT, TBS and TruTV), now even with last year as well as the 2012-2016 averag...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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THE SKED’S BUSTED PILOT THEATRE: “Homegrown”

> See A Word About Busted Pilots The pilot for HOMEGROWN, produced for CBS by Warner Bros Television, seems determined to hit as many dysfunctional-but-loving-family cliches as it can.  We have one grouchy alpha male in a ...
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Weekly Broadcast Ratings: A Creaky Summer Begins

Projected weekly network ratings in prime time (based on four days of official nationals and three days of fast nationals).  NBC will win the week ending Sunday with a 1.42 adult 18-49 rating in prime time, identical to last w...
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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
 
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PREMIERING TONIGHT: THE SKED’S FALL PILOT REPORT: CBS’s “Partners”

  PARTNERS: Monday 8:30PM on CBS – Worth A Look It’s impossible not to compare the new fall comedies PARTNERS on CBS and The New Normal on NBC.  Even though the CBS show is multi-camera and NBC’s is in s...
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The Sked: PROMO WATCH

>The most recent Promo Watch numbers are based on prime time broadcast network programming between April 18 and April 24, with about 8 hours of programming sampled for each network over that period.  (Click “read mor...
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