Posts Tagged ‘FOX’
 

 

THE SKED: FOX Really, Really Hates Its “Teenage Daughter”

> FOX, reacting quickly to the decline of NEW GIRL, has just announced that it’s yanking the horribly rated I HATE MY TEENAGE DAUGHTER from the final 2 weeks of its 4-sitcom Tuesday.  Last night, Teenage Daughter cou...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED: FOX Fall Schedule and Instant Analysis

FOX announced a very reasonable schedule–which is to say their choices were mostly in agreement with our recommendations.     A quick look at each night:
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports Ratings

CBS and the other networks carrying March Madness had a very good round three Sunday (round two if you are a purist and don’t count the silly “play in” games as round one).  The CBS tripleheader games yesterd...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

THE SKED: “House” For Sale

> Today FOX and the producers of HOUSE jointly announced that this 8th season will be its last.  There’s nothing particularly shocking about this–ratings were down significantly from last year, and the show is ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED’S BUSTED PILOT THEATRE: “Family Album”

> See A Word About Busted Pilots FAMILY ALBUM was one of the more buzzed-about FOX pilots of this past development season, and although it’s not on the network’s announced schedule, Deadline reports that it’s ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

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
 

 

 

The Sked: Monday Week 7

Another winning Monday night for NBC, although the 4.0 adult 18-49 rating in the preliminary fast nationals is actually at the low end for this season.  CBS, ABC and FOX are back to where they were three weeks ago, before the ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

The Sked: MAY SWEEP UPDATE (7 of 28 nights)

>With a full week of ratings for the May Sweep in (Thursday-Tuesday’s official ratings and Wednesday’s fast national ratings), here’s an early look at the final major ratings sweep period of the broadcast seas...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

PREMIERING TONIGHT–THE SKED’S FALL PILOT REPORT: FOX’s “Ben & Kate”

  BEN & KATE:  Tuesday 8:30PM on FOX – Worth A Look   However it may fare in the ratings, this fall’s FOX Tuesday schedule is a model lesson in what a smoothly engineered line-up looks like.  At 9:30...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED: Good News for “Sean Saves the World” and Seth MacFarlane

  It’s entirely possible that SEAN SAVES THE WORLD will never again hit the 1.4 rating it had last night (at least not unless NBC gives it The Voice as a lead-in again), so the network seized the opportunity of a les...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

The Sked: FALL RATINGS PREDICTIONS — TUESDAY Night

Tuesdays this fall look like another win for CBS.  Last fall, FOX battled CBS to a draw on Tuesdays, partly because New Girl started at a smash-hit pace, then CBS moved ahead in the spring.  But with Glee moving off the n...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

The Sked: Monday Ratings Week Three

NBC Monday inched up a tenth of a rating point from the last two weeks — a very solid night top to bottom.  CBS appears to have had a good night (the best Monday in three weeks), but that 2.8 rating is probably inflated ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

AUDIENCE MAP: FOX Fall 2015

The AUDIENCE MAP series continues with a look at fall 2015:  FOX’s primetime lineup is shown below.  As a reminder, the programs are arranged by broadcast schedule, with each show placed on the night it spent most of t...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

THE SKED PILOT REVIEW: “Touch”

> TOUCH:  Mondays 9PM on FOX, starting March 19 – Change the Channel FOX’s new series TOUCH got off to a very good start in the ratings with a “preview” episode last week (having American Idol as a ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

The Sked: The Value of Sports Programming and Updated Full Season Forecasts

What does football mean to the broadcast networks?  For NBC and CBS, NFL coverage (along with other sports, mostly an occasional college football game) accounts for about 20-30% of the entire primetime rating for the network. ...
by Mitch Metcalf