Posts Tagged ‘Once Upon A Time’
 

 

THE SKED’S SUNDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 12/4/11

> Another Sunday where there was football… and then everything else. FOX:  The early evening received a massive boost from the Giants vs. Green Bay game, which went down to the last second.  That lifted THE SIMP...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED: Sunday Network Scorecard – 11/6/11

> Another Sunday, or as NBC likes to think of it, The Only Night That Should Count. ABC:  ONCE UPON A TIME barely slipped from last week, proving its full season pick-up was well deserved.  DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES contin...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED @ PALEYFEST2013: “Once Upon A Time”

  Cheers to ONCE UPON A TIME, which rushed through the PaleyFest preliminaries at this afternoon’s session and was able to screen not just tonight’s entire episode, but next week’s first act as well.  To...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED; Sunday Ratings – Network Scorecard – 10/23/11

> Once upon a time in the fairy-tale world of broadcast television, there was a network that got exactly what it most wished for… ABC:  And that network was ABC.  ONCE UPON A TIME launched beautifully against ma...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED’S PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “Once Upon A Time”

> A lot can happen between the creation of a TV pilot in the spring and production of episodes for the regular season:  a writing/producing team is hired, audience focus groups weigh in, networks and studios (which may hav...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED’S 2012/13 FIRST CUT: ABC Needs & Possibilities

> With the television season at Upfronts minus about 6 weeks, Mitch Metcalf, veteran programming executive Ted Frank and I are continuing our survey of the issues each network may and should be thinking about while strategizing...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED’S SUNDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 4/15/12

> NYC 22 goes down with the ship. CBS:  It was almost a full year ago that CBS announced the arrival of NYC 22 (which has changed titles since then), and after all that time… nobody cared.  The show debuted...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED’S Pre-Upfront Projected ABC Fall Schedule

  See Also:  THE SKED’s Pre-Upfront Projected NBC Fall 2013 Schedule                  THE SKED’s Pre-Upfront Projected FOX Fall 2013 Schedule We’re continuing with SHOWBUZZDAILY‘s v...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED’S SUNDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 5/6/12

      DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES in the home stretch. ABC:  ONCE UPON A TIME aired a strong pre-season finale episode, setting up a big good-vs-evil confrontation next week, and held steady at 3.0 for the 3rd consecut...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

The Sked: SUNDAY RATINGS March 18

>Another weak Sunday night on network television.  CBS narrowly won the night with Adults 18-49 in the preliminary fast nationals, thanks to coverage of the NCAA Basketball Tournament until 7:43 pm.  ABC was down from...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

The Sked: SUNDAY RATINGS December 11

>A classic NFC match-up between the New York Giants and Dallas Cowboys generated a preliminary 8.5 Adult 18-49 rating in the fast nationals.  We are estimating that the game rating (starting at 8:30 pm) will go up to a 9.3...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Once Upon A Time”

  Anyone who saw the ONCE UPON A TIME pilot and thought the series would be worth watching only “if nothing else is on” would surely have to be an idiot–and in this case, that idiot was me.  I couldnR...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED: Sunday Ratings – Network Scorecardj – 10/30/11

> The fairy tale continues for one of this season’s new arrivals. ABC:  The back order for ONCE UPON A TIME should be arriving any minute.  The fantasy soap has clearly found an audience sweet spot, and even wit...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

The Sked: Sunday Ratings and Network Averages for First Three Weeks

NBC had a very typical Sunday night win — we are projecting their Adult 18-49 rating for the night will go up to a 6.3 in the official nationals tomorrow.  FOX should have been a strong second place because it had the NF...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

The Sked: PROMO WATCH — Through Tuesday October 18

>On NBC, Grimm is now the network’s #1 promo priority, based on our sampling of programming over the past week.  Up All Night, which received almost a full minute of promo time in Parenthood last night, mov...
by Mitch Salem