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THE SKED’S PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “Vegas”

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: Tuesday Ratings — A 2.2 Rating Is As Good As It Gets?

With CBS in re-reruns last night, it was one grim night on network TV Tuesday.  ABC won the night with a 2.0 adult 18-49 rating from 8-11 pm, slightly above the 1.7 season-to-date rating for ABC Tuesday.    The network premi...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “The Good Wife”

  It’s a little churlish, in the face of tonight’s mostly splendid Season 4 finale of THE GOOD WIFE, to point out that for the most part, the rest of the season didn’t quite live up to its high level of ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SKEDBALL: March Madness TV Ratings through First Sunday

During the NCAA Basketball Tournament’s Round of 32 Saturday and Sunday, almost every game on each network was in line with ratings for the same games the past few years.  (We do not have result from the CBS games in the...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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THE SKED: Broadcast Network On-Air Promotion July 20

>Last night we had our first look at CBS’s current promotional priorities in the one-hour Big Brother at 8:00 pm.  With a fairly light on-air promo load, dramas got the lion’s share of time: Unforgettable (one ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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The Sked: RATINGS ADVISORY — CBS Fast Nationals for Monday

> Fast National ratings for CBS Monday programs will be inflated slightly.  The CBS station in Baltimore (WJZ) is carrying the ESPN Monday Night Football game locally (between the Baltimore Ravens and Jacksonville Jaguars)...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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The Sked: Why Are the Networks Upbeat about the Upfront with Such Declining Ratings?

> We may all be looking at the wrong ratings. Each day, attention is paid to the previous night’s television ratings, generally the “Live+Same Day” ratings measuring any viewing of a program live or via DVR pl...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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Broadcast Weekly and Season Averages

Week 38 of the broadcast season (June 4-10) was won by FOX with a 1.55 in prime time, up from last week’s 1.20 (thanks to the arrival of Gordan Ramsay’s two shows Hell’s Kitchen and MasterChef).   NBC fell t...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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Broadcast Network Weekly and Summer Averages

Broadcast television quickly returned to normal the week ending Sunday night, the first full week after the Summer Olympics. FOX won the quiet week of August 13-19 with a preliminary 1.65 Adult 18-49 rating. Once again, the Gor...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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THE SKED: CBS Doubles Down on “Vegas,” Finds Back Order “Elementary”

  Neither VEGAS nor ELEMENTARY is setting television screens on fire with their 18-49 ratings so far. Vegas scored a 2.0 in its last airing that merely tied the perpetually bubbled Parenthood, and Elementary hit a somewha...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Weekly Broadcast Ratings and Year to Date

THE WEEK.  For the recently completed week ending Sunday (February 18-24, 2013), ABC will claim a rare victory with a preliminary 3.42 adult 18-49 rating in prime time, its best weekly showing of the year by far (thanks, of ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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THE SKED’s Fall TV Ratings Predictions – Monday

  The Upfronts are over, which means the real Upfronts are about to begin–that is, the networks’ advance sale of advertising time (usually about 80% of the season’s total) for the Fall 2013 TV season.  A...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED: Summer Broadcast Ratings Update Aug 29-Sep 4

>Well, preseason NFL football was fun while it lasted.  The broadcast week just concluded (August 29-September 4) saw network weekly ratings come crashing down to earth.  FOX wilted to a summer low 1.1 weekly average,...
by Mitch Salem
 
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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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THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “How I Met Your Mother”

  In HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER, Carter Bays and Craig Thomas created an odd but appealing mix of traditional sitcom humor and conceptual originality (their upcoming FOX show The Goodwin Games looks like another unusual angle o...
by Mitch Salem
 
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