Posts Tagged ‘smash’
 

 

The Sked: MONDAY RATINGS April 23

> CBS took the night off last night with repeats, allowing NBC and ABC to rise one tenth of a rating point from last Monday, while FOX increased two tenths of a rating point to third place.         &nbs...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

The Sked: MONDAY RATINGS April 16

> NBC slid to a 3.0 rating with Adults 18-49 from 8-11 pm, still #1 for the night but the night is eroding steadily.  Pending updates in the official nationals, Two and a Half Men will be the #1 show last night with a 3.7 ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

The Sked: MONDAY RATINGS April 9

> NBC narrowly won Monday night with a weakening Voice still the highest-rated show on the night with young adults.  CBS was back with its regular schedule, all in originals.  While the 8:00-9:30 CBS schedule is on tr...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

The Sked: MONDAY RATINGS March 5

> With the February sweep over, we enter the treacherous March/April period, where more than half the time periods on the broadcast networks have repeat episodes on any given week.  Having originals is a distinct advantage...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

THE SKED’S SUNDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 3/11/12

> GCB gives, even while DST taketh away. ABC:  GCB is a very bad show, but not an unpopular one.  Its 2.3 inched up over last week’s premiere, at least in preliminary numbers, and seemed to squeak out a timeslot...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED: Friday Pre-Empted

  A brief ratings note:  the bulk of Friday’s network primetime schedule was preempted on the East Coast for live news coverage of the arrest of the suspected Boston Marathon bomber, and reruns were substituted for ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED’S WEDNESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 2/29/12

> February Sweeps go out not with a bang, but with the other thing. ABC:  The first “midseason arc” episode of REVENGE looked almost exactly like all the other episodes, so it was fitting that the rating stayed...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

The Sked: MONDAY RATINGS February 6

>NBC had a terrific Monday after the Super Bowl, taking full advantage of the most-watched program in TV history to establish The Voice on its new night and deliver a solid opening for Smash.  However, there was significan...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

THE SKED: Happy SMASHday!

> As we know from the final ratings, last night went as well for NBC as it possibly could have, with the Giants/Patriot Super Bowl (yay, Giants!) becoming the most watched broadcast in television history, boasting an audience o...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

The Sked: MONDAY RATINGS April 2

> CBS won the night last night, mostly with the NCAA Basketball Championship.  The preliminary rating for the night matches last year’s mark, although the individual program ratings for CBS Monday (two comedy repeats...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

THE SKED PILOT REPORT: PREMIERING TONIGHT – “Smash”

> Disclaimer:  Network pilots now in circulation are not necessarily in the form that will air in the Fall.  Pilots are often reedited and rescored, and in some cases even recast or reshot.  So these critiques sh...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED’S SCHEDULE: NBC

  The broadcast networks will officially announce their schedules next week at the Upfronts in New York, but before that happens, Mitch Metcalf and I, along with veteran network executive Ted Frank, have put together our o...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED’S TUESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 3/20/12

> FOX chants:  bring back GLEE! FOX:  The network’s 4-sitcom Tuesday is starting to look less like an unsuccessful experiment and more like a disaster.  I HATE MY TEENAGE DAUGHTER is already all-but-cancele...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED’S MONDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 5/14/12

    A night for departures and arrivals..   CBS:  The 1-hour season finale of HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER (which disclosed not The Mother, but Barney’s wife) was up from recent episodes at 3.6, also better than ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED: “Smash” and A Broken Heart For Every Light On Broadway

  Believe it or not, now that it’s far too late and the closing notice has all but been posted, SMASH aired its best episode of the season last night–not remotely what some of us hoped the show would be at the ...
by Mitch Salem