Posts Tagged ‘Dexter’
 

 

Top Cable and Broadcast Telecasts of the Week

Cable and broadcast weekly rankings.  The annual BET Awards took the #1 position for the week with adults 18-49, edging the premiere of Under the Dome for the weekly crown.
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

The Sked: CABLE RATINGS September 27-October 3

>Sports dominate the top of the weekly cable ratings chart.  ESPN’s NFL Monday Night Football was #1 again in the cable world, although down from a 7.2 demo rating last week when the more attractive Dallas-Washington...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

Top Cable and Broadcast Programs of the Week

Top broadcast and cable programs this week and last.  Shark Week kicked off Sunday on Discovery with the mockumentary Megalodon: Monster Shark at 9:00 pm, which matched the 2.2 True Blood rating with Adults 18-49 on HBO at...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

THE SKED: Monday Ratings – Network Scorecard – 10/17/11

> Comparisons to last Monday may be misleading, since due to baseball overrun that night, many shows aired either out of their normal timeslots or against atypical competition. FOX:  TERRA NOVA, for example, didn’t b...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

The Sked: Cable Ratings December 6-12

>The lack of schedule flexibility (as NBC has with its late season Sunday Night Football games) has hurt the Monday and Thursday night football franchises recently.  When match-ups feature teams with little to no playoff c...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

THE SKED SEASON FINALE WATCH: The Girl With the “Homeland” Tattoo

> WARNING:  Spoilers Abound That expelled breath heard around the country this evening was a collective sigh of relief:  HOMELAND‘s season finale didn’t collapse.  On the contrary, it delivered a sati...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

The Sked: Cable Ratings December 13-19

>ESPN’s Monday Night Football was back with a vengeance this week — a 6.4 Adult 18-49 rating for the Pittsburgh Steelers at San Francisco 49ers, the highest-rated game since November 7 (6.9 rating for Chicago Bears ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

THE SKED: “Homeland” Finale Blows Up (In A Good Way)

> All the buzz and acclaim for Showtime’s HOMELAND started to pay off in the ratings for its season finale, which climbed from the show’s usual 0.4-0.5 level to a 0.7.  That’s still no blockbuster, but in...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED: The Return of “Homeland” (and “Dexter”)

> Showtime announced today the return of 2 of its signature dramas:  both DEXTER and HOMELAND will begin their new seasons on Sunday, September 30. Not coincidentally, this is exactly 1 week after the year’s Emmy Awa...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED: Showtime’s Big Night

  The Sunday cable numbers will mostly be released tomorrow, but Showtime was in an understandable hurry to get out the fast news about last night’s numbers. In total audience (the 18-49 demo numbers are still in pro...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Dexter”

  DEXTER:  Sunday 9PM on Showtime WHERE WE WERE:  In a frozen instant of time, as Detective Debra Morgan (Jennifer Carpenter) watched her adopted brother Dexter (Michael C. Hall), a blood spatter expert on her own forens...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED’S SUNDAY SHOWTIME SCORECARD – 12/9/12

  With HBO, AMC, TNT, USA, Lifetime, A&E and virtually every other cable network that airs scripted Sunday programming on seasonal hiatus, this Sunday belonged to Showtime. HOMELAND rose to yet another all-time high in...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED: Emmy Odds – Theirs and Ours: Drama

>With the help of some online bookmaking sites, we have the latest “official” odds for tonight’s Emmy Awards.  Let’s take a look about what they say about the conventional wisdom, and make some adju...
by Mitch Salem