Posts Tagged ‘Ringer’
 

 

THE SKED’S TUESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 11/8/11

> Post-baseball hangover over?  Not so fast. FOX:  Unlike Monday, FOX’s Tuesday seems to have been seriously dented by baseball preemptions.  GLEE only recovered a bit of its pre-baseball number, and despit...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED’S TUESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 2/28/12

> Did PARENTHOOD buy itself another season? NBC:  Creatively, PARENTHOOD‘s season finale wasn’t the show at its best (too many storyline conclusions crammed into too little time).  But its 1.9 rating built...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED: Tuesday Ratings – Network Scorecard – 10/11/11

> j It’s taken this long for full ratings to be released from yesterday, mostly because of FOX’s baseball coverage.  And as Mitch Metcalf just reported, tonight is going to be a disaster for FOX as well, with a...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED’S TUESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 4/3/12

> NEW GIRL is losing that new-show gleam. FOX:  Whether it’s been caused by the accumulated agony of FOX’s 4-sitcom schedule (with I Hate My Teenage Daughter and Raising Hope reruns as lead-ins), the reality re...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED’S TUESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 4/17/12

> Another experiment fails. ABC:  PRIVATE PRACTICE has been comfortably successful on Thursdays, in the shelter of older sibling Grey’s Anatomy. but the network’s attempt to try it out on Tuesday nights–w...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED’S TUESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 3/13/12

> FASHION STAR‘s premiere wasn’t very attractive. NBC:  FASHION STAR debuted with a 1.6 which, as lousy as it was, allows the network to briefly claim a timeslot victory–next week, when Unforgettable (whi...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED: Tuesday Ratings – Network Scorecard – 9/27/11

> On a night without a lot of movement, sometimes standing still works out for the best. FOX:  Zooey Deschanel may not be a mainstream movie star, but her Manic Pixie Dream Girl charms are definitely making her one on TV:&...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED’S TUESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 2/7/12

> Not all shows premiere like Smash. ABC:  In recent years, viewers have flocked to horror series from True Blood to The Walking Dead to The Vampire Diaries, and at the multiplex, “found footage” thrillers like...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED’S PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “Ringer”

> 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 SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Ringer”

> RINGER could have been a hell of a movie. It happens sometimes with TV shows.  Remember Daybreak, featuring Taye Diggs as a cop who had to relive the same day over and over again, Groundhog Day style, until he could solv...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED: Wednesday Ratings – Network Scorecard – 10/19/11

> The arrival of the World Series meant remarkably little to the other networks last night. FOX:  Last night’s was the lowest rated non-Saturday Game 1 in history, and basically did the same rating for FOX as X Facto...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED’S TUESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 2/21/12

> GLEE looks at a shark and considers taking a jump. FOX:  Despite perhaps the most melodramatic midseason finale of any “comedy’ in TV history (a suicide attempt, an as-yet unexplained pregnancy, and a dead-or...
by Mitch Salem