Posts Tagged ‘CW’
 

 

THE SKED Season Premiere Review: “The Vampire Diaries”

  THE VAMPIRE DIARIES:  Thursday 8PM on CW Walter White, that student of change, would enjoy this fifth season of THE VAMPIRE DIARIES.  Behind the camera, showrunner Julie Plec is now splitting her time with the Diaries ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED SERIES FINALE REVIEW: “Gossip Girl”

  After 6 years and a 55-minute clip show retrospective, and bearing enough promos for The Carrie Diaries for that show to establish a network of its own, GOSSIP GIRL came to a breezy, mostly satisfying end by concentratin...
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
 

 
 

AUDIENCE MAP: CW Primetime Full 2014-2015 Season

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

 

 

THE SKED FALL PILOT REPORT: CW’s “Beauty & the Beast”

  BEAUTY & THE BEAST: Thursday 9PM starting 10/11 on CW – If Nothing Else Is On… Disclaimer: Network pilots now in circulation are not necessarily in the form that will air in the Fall. Pilots are often ree...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED: “Cult” Disbands

  It really takes some doing to have ratings too low for CW on Friday nights, but CULT pulled it off, yanked from the network’s schedule with almost half of its episodes still unaired.  (Last week Cult had a 0.2 ra...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED: Monday Ratings – Network Scorecard – 9/19/11

> And… they’re off!  The 2011-12 broadcast TV season is underway, and already there are some clear winners and losers. CBS:  Last night was always going to be a good night for the Eye, but the extent of th...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: CW’s “90210”

  90210 has never been CW at its best.  The semi-network specializes almost exclusively in fantasies, either of the supernatural or soapy kind (or both), and some of its shows deliver those fantasies with wit and compelli...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “The Vampire Diaries”

Season-4-Promotional-Image-the-vampire-diaries-tv-show-32007005-500-338.png THE VAMPIRE DIARIES:  Thursday 8PM on CW WHERE WE WERE:  Witnessing heroine Elena (Nina Dobrev) die and then un-die, a presumptive vampire-to-be. To ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED: Ad Age Shows Us the Network Money – Part 2: The Shows

Yesterday we did our homework and reviewed the groundrules for calculating the meaning of primetime network ad rates listed by Ad Age in its yearly survey.  So… all that being said, where are the networks making their mo...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED’S PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “Emily Owens, MD”

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
 

 
 

THE SKED: CW

> NEW SHOWS in BOLD.  New Time Periods in Italics. WHAT WE LIKE:  A lot of new shows (four new shows on a five-night network).  CW is playing like the clock is running out and trying to make something happen.&nbs...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED: CW FALL SCHEDULE AND INSTANT ANALYSIS

  CW needed to rip up its schedule and start over, and it mostly has.     Let’s take a look night-by-night. MONDAY:  The network is reuniting two of its cornerstone soaps for the Fall, with 90210 as the le...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED: CW’s Finale Schedule

> CW has announced the line-up for its 2011/12 regular season finales, as well as a late-season premiere: First to exit will be ONE TREE HILL, which winds up its 9 seasons on April 4 with a 2-hour special. On April 17, RINGER w...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED’S MIDSEASON RETURN: “The Secret Circle”

> After a hiatus so long that it seemed as though CW had found its own witchcraft to create more repeats of THE SECRET CIRCLE than there’d been original episodes to start, the series finally returned to original episodes....
by Mitch Salem