Posts Tagged ‘cbs’
 

 

THE SKED: CBS Joins In the Fun

CBS, as usual the last network to make its decisions known, has issued its first orders for the 2012/13 network season, picking up 2 comedies and 4 dramas. VEGAS was the network’s highest-profile pilot, written by Nichola...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “The Good Wife”

  THE GOOD WIFE:  Sunday 9PM on CBS WHERE WE WERE: Waiting for Kalinda’s door to open.  She (Archie Panjabi) was calmly waiting inside with a gun, waiting for her former husband, a man who even Kalinda thinks is da...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports Ratings — Horse Racing Still Matters Three Saturdays a Year

The first leg of horse racing’s Triple Crown dominated the weekend sports ratings for Saturday, May 4 and Sunday, May 5: NBC hit a 10.4 household rating during the 6 pm hour Saturday for coverage of the Kentucky Derby (up...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

THE SKED PILOT REPORT: CBS’s “How To Be A Gentleman” – PREMIERING TONIGHT

>   Disclaimer:  Network pilots now in circulation are not necessarily in the form that will air in the Fall.  Pilots are often reedited and rescored, and in some cases even recast or reshot.  So these criti...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

The Sked: MAY SWEEP UPDATE — Halfway to the Finish Line

With two full weeks in for the May Sweep (official ratings for April 26-May 8 and fast national ratings for May 9), here’s an early look at the final major ratings sweep period of the broadcast season, when ratings are me...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

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
 

 

 

THE SKED: New Fall Show On-Air Promotion — August 1 Update

>With network on-air promotion activity tracked in hit summer shows (those at or above a 2.0 Adult 18-49 rating) for the second half of July, each network’s marketing strategies are becoming clearer. FOX, with only a 15-h...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

Broadcast Weekly and Season Averages

Week 39 of the broadcast season (June 11-17) was won handily by ABC with a 3.17 Adult 18-49 rating in prime time, thanks to three high-rated NBA Finals games (Game 1 on Tuesday earned a 6.9 rating, Game 2 on Thursday built to a...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

THE SKED PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “NYC 22”

> 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 ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED: “A Gifted Man” Update

>Deadline is reporting that Pablo Schreiber, who guest starred on the pilot for CBS’s A GIFTED MAN (review here) has been upped to a regular.  Schreiber played a new age-y healer in the pilot, visited by Patrick Wils...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

The Sked: TUESDAY RATINGS May 22

The rank order of the broadcast networks last night was exactly the same as last year: FOX (with the penultimate American Idol on a special night), ABC (with the finale of Dancing with the Stars), NBC (with more auditions for A...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

The Sked: THURSDAY RATINGS April 12

>American Idol rebounded last night, pushing FOX to another Thursday win.  But CBS was the real winner last night.  With mostly repeats, they earned a strong second place finish on the night with four comedies and a d...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “CSI”

  As of this week, there’s just one CSI left standing on CBS, and after 13 years, it’s the original recipe.  Having survived the bump in its creative road a couple of seasons ago when the misguided hire of Lau...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

AUDIENCE MAP: CBS Primetime Full 2014-2015 Season

The AUDIENCE MAP series continues with a look back at the complete 2014-2015 television season.  CBS’s primetime lineup is shown below.  As a reminder, the programs are arranged by broadcast schedule, with each show pl...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

THE SKED SERIES PREMIERE REVIEW: “Under the Dome”

  UNDER THE DOME:  Monday 10PM on CBS – Potential DVR Alert Much of CBS’s programming philosophy is built around the steady reliability of its reruns, so on the face of it, the Eye would seem least likely of t...
by Mitch Salem