Posts Tagged ‘cbs’
 

 

The Sked: WEDNESDAY Ratings Charts

A quick post today with just the ratings charts for last night.  Complete coverage to return soon. Wednesday night fast national ratings compared to the official nationals for the same night last year: Original episode track f...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

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: How We’ll Meet “Your Mother” Next Season

  HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER will continue parsing out its precious nuggets of mother-related information for one more season.  CBS very badly wanted the show back, especially with 2 Broke Girls not proving to be the Monday bl...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

Weekly Broadcast Network Ratings through January 27

THE WEEK.  For the recently completed week ending Sunday (January 21-27, 2013), FOX pulled into first place with a 2.56 adult 18-49 rating, thanks to American Idol, a solid premiere for The Following and a lot of repeats o...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

The Sked: Sunday Week 5 — FOX Steals a Sunday Victory from NBC

It looks like NBC suffered its first Sunday defeat of the new season.  The Sunday Night Football game certainly out-rated Game 4 of the World Series, but FOX built a commanding lead in the 7 pm hour alone with the controversia...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

THE SKED: Tuesday Ratings – Network Scorecard – 9/27/11

> On a night without a lot of movement, sometimes standing still works out for the best. FOX:  Zooey Deschanel may not be a mainstream movie star, but her Manic Pixie Dream Girl charms are definitely making her one on TV:&...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED: Week 1 + 1 – Network Scorecard

> None of the networks should be throwing a parade after the first 8 days of the new season, but some may be in more of a marching mood than others. FOX:  It was all going so well for FOX.  NEW GIRL launched as strong...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

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 June 25

NBC and FOX battled to a tie last night with a good mix of original programming.  ABC was in the hunt until 10 pm, when the atrocious Glass House destroyed any momentum.   NBC aired more U.S. Olympics Trials from 8-9 pm (thi...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

The Sked: TUESDAY RATINGS September 27

> Zooey Deschanel in FOX’s New Girl The second Tuesday of the new season was relatively surprise-free.  FOX’s New Girl established itself as the hit of the new season, and CBS turned in a reliable perform...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

COUNTING TO 10: The Tonys

> The Tony Awards aren’t quite like any other televised awards show.  They’re happily, unapologetically insular (and so are the ratings–thank god for CBS, where “young” audience is a relative ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED SERIES FINALE REVIEW: “Vegas”

  There was a sequence late in the one and only season of VEGAS that suggested what the show could have been.  It wasn’t a big deal:  deputy sheriff Dixon Lamb (Taylor Handley) needed a favor from the entertainment...
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
 

 
 

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
 

 

 

THE SKED: The Craig Ferguson Shoe Drops

  Craig Ferguson is maintaining that his decision to leave CBS and THE LATE LATE SHOW WITH CRAIG FERGUSON in December is absolutely, entirely, utterly, completely, totally unrelated to the network’s recent decision t...
by Mitch Salem