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NIELSENWAR 2014-15 Trailer Review: ABC’s “American Crime”

AMERICAN CRIME: Sunday 9PM Midseason on ABC THE FACTS: John Ridley, this year’s Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar winner for 12 Years A Slave, has written a serialized crime drama very specifically about race, in w...

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NIELSENWAR: How The Networks Learned To Stop Worrying & Love the Bombs

1.3. 0.9. 1.4. 1.1. 0.7. 1.2. 1.3. 1.2. Those are, respectively, the most recent Live + Same Day ratings for Quantico, Grandfathered, Code Black (which actually had a bump for the week thanks to a higher than...

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THE SKED’S NIELSENWAR – Fall TV Turkey Edition

As this is a week when turkeys are revered, celebrated, and then eaten, let’s take a look at what wisdom the network’s Fall feathered non-fliers have to impart to us. In other words, What did this Fall̵...

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NIELSENWAR: ABC Fall Schedule & Analysis (Includes 5-Network Grid)

Welcome to Upfronts week, when the broadcast networks (or what’s left of them) announce their Fall schedules and attempt to generate billions of dollars worth of excitement from advertisers. It’s harder than ever t...

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NIELSENWAR: Hindsight, Girlfriends’ Guide, and The Perks of Being In the Cable Scripted Game

Everyone knows that TV is a pitiless business, where a show lives or dies by the ratings it receives. Except… not always. Today, VH1 announced that it was renewing its time-travel dramedy Hindsight, even though the...

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NIELSENWAR 2014-15: ABC Picks Up “Secrets & Lies,” Negotiates on “Nashville”

One more drama for ABC: the murder-driven soap SECRETS & LIES, which had a high-profile deal that would have required the network to pay a large penalty if it hadn’t ordered the series (it has a 10-episode or...

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NIELSENWAR: A Veterans Day Look At Veteran Network Series

NOTE: Season To Date and Network Week-to-Week Charts Are Below With today’s CW announcement that THE ORIGINALS, REIGN and THE TOMORROW PEOPLE have received full back orders, we know where we are with just about a...

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NIELSENWAR 2014-15 Trailer Review: CBS’s “Madam Secretary”

MADAM SECRETARY: Sunday 8PM on CBS THE FACTS: Tea Leoni plays Elizabeth McCord, a college professor and former CIA analyst unexpectedly named by the President (Keith Carradine)–who used to be her boss at the CI...

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NIELSENWAR 2014-15: The CBS Schedule – Grid and Instant Analysis

The big news at CBS is that the network is reducing its Monday comedy block to 1 hour, while leaving 2 sitcom hours on Thursday. Consequently, the network is adding only one new half-hour in the fall. (There was no l...

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NIELSENWAR Week 3: Night-By-Night Network Ratings Impact

What do we know that we didn’t know last week? Here’s the big-picture view of where each network’s primetime average stands in comparison to 2012-13 after 3 full weeks of the season: NBC: 2.84 (+0.9%) C...

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NIELSENWAR: Bring Out Your Dead! NBC Executes “Bad Judge” and “A To Z”

After last night’s atrocious 0.9/0.7 pairing, it was clear that the writing on the wall for NBC’s BAD JUDGE and A TO Z was scrawled in blood. The network chose Halloween afternoon to announce the burials. ...

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NIELSENWAR Network Midterm Grades: NBC

We’re continuing with our examination of the broadcast networks as they near the launch of the midseason part of their schedules. We’ve already assigned grades to ABC and CBS, and today it’s Peacock s...

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NIELSENWAR 2014-15 Trailer Review: NBC’s “Marry Me”

MARRY ME: Tuesday 9PM on NBC THE FACTS: Happy Endings creator David Caspe reunites with Casey Wilson, one of that show’s stars, for a rom-com that pairs her with Ken Marino, as a longtime couple who finally get...

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THE SKED’S NIELSENWAR – Week 3

Another week’s worth of ratings are in, and once again, we ask: what do we know now that we didn’t know a week ago? NEXT CALLER MUST HAVE BEEN A REALLY, REALLY BAD SHOW. Last week NBC stopped production o...

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NIELSENWAR: Pre-Upfront – What Will the Networks Do?

The network averages for last week are significant because they represent a full week of sweeps programming, which means reruns were at a minimum and some stunting (although not a tremendous amount of it: a Chicago Fire/...

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NIELSENWAR 2014-15 Trailer Review: ABC’s “American Crime”

NIELSENWAR: How The Networks Learned To Stop Worrying & Love the Bombs

THE SKED’S NIELSENWAR – Fall TV Turkey Edition

NIELSENWAR: ABC Fall Schedule & Analysis (Includes 5-Network Grid)

NIELSENWAR: Hindsight, Girlfriends’ Guide, and The Perks of Being In the Cable Scripted Game

NIELSENWAR 2014-15: ABC Picks Up “Secrets & Lies,” Negotiates on “Nashville”

NIELSENWAR: A Veterans Day Look At Veteran Network Series

NIELSENWAR 2014-15 Trailer Review: CBS’s “Madam Secretary”

NIELSENWAR 2014-15: The CBS Schedule – Grid and Instant Analysis

NIELSENWAR Week 3: Night-By-Night Network Ratings Impact

NIELSENWAR: Bring Out Your Dead! NBC Executes “Bad Judge” and “A To Z”

NIELSENWAR Network Midterm Grades: NBC

NIELSENWAR 2014-15 Trailer Review: NBC’s “Marry Me”

THE SKED’S NIELSENWAR – Week 3

NIELSENWAR: Pre-Upfront – What Will the Networks Do?

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