Posts Tagged ‘The Sked’
 

 

THE SKED’S SUNDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 8/25/13

  The regular season hasn’t started yet, but the NFL is already in charge. NBC:  Per Mitch Metcalf, although preliminary numbers have the Sunday night NFL PRESEASON FOOTBALL game at a 2.1, we anticipate that final n...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED’S THURSDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 8/22/13

  As has been the case the last couple of Thursdays, preseason football preemptions (one major market each for NBC, CBS, ABC and CW last night) will play a bit of havoc with the early numbers.  Per Mitch Metcalf, expect e...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED’S TUESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 8/20/13

  A quiet night on the networks. NBC:  AMERICA’S GOT TALENT was easily the highest rated show of the night, but its 2.2 was its lowest rated Tuesday airing ever, down 0.2 from last week and 0.3 from the parallel nig...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED’S SAT-MON CABLE SCORECARD: 8/17-19

  SATURDAY STARZ:  Starz would be pleased if THE WHITE QUEEN can continue where it landed with its second episode.  Although its 800K total viewers and 0.3 in 18-49s were below the total of the many airings Starz and its...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “True Blood”

  This was, for the most part, a solid rebuilding season for TRUE BLOOD.  The show survived a replacement in showrunners when series creator Alan Ball stepped down after 5 years–and then a replacement of that replac...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “Broadchurch”

  BROADCHURCH:  Wednesday 10PM on BBCAmerica Previously… on BROADCHURCH:  In the small Dorset town of Broadchurch, the body of 11-year old Danny Latimer has been found on the beach, just as the local police force h...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED’S MONDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 8/12/13

  Last night the numbers continued to slide for Under the Dome, and viewers watched country singers rock out. ABC:  CMA MUSIC FESTIVAL: COUNTRY’S NIGHT TO ROCK was up an impressive half ratings point from last year̵...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “King & Maxwell”

  KING & MAXWELL isn’t the kind of show you’d particularly expect to see evolve between its premiere and season finale, and in fact it didn’t.  That’s too bad, because the TNT series, developed...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED: “Breaking Bad” Breaks Big

  AMC executives may have felt like they’d been doing some meth themselves this morning–in a good way.  Five and a half seasons into its run, BREAKING BAD returned for its final 8 episodes with a vengeance, ex...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED’S MONDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 8/5/13

  Just how much is Time Warner Cable’s blackout of CBS affecting the network’s ratings?  The answer is unclear for now–on Sunday, Big Brother was even with the prior week in final numbers, and while la...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “The Fosters”

  THE FOSTERS had a very busy first season (or half-season, depending on whether you count ABCFamily’s practice of ordering 10 summer episodes and then 10 more for winter as one season or two). There was, to begin w...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Falling Skies”

  FALLING SKIES told a somewhat different story this season under showrunner Remi Aubuchon than it had in its first two years, and the changes worked fairly well for the most part.  Tom Mason (Noah Wyle) and his plucky ba...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED: Tues-Wed Cable Ratings Scorecard – 7/30-31

  TUESDAY TNT:  RIZZOLI & ISLES dipped a bit, down 150,000 total viewers to 5.3M and down 0.1 in the 18-49 demo to 1.0, and PERCEPTION followed suit, down by just about the same margins to 3.4M total viewers and 0.7 i...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED: Fri-Mon Cable Ratings Scorecard – 7/26-7/29

  FRIDAY STARZ:  The pay-TV network had plenty of announcements at its TCA press tour session, including a renewal for its pirate series Black Sails before the show has even aired, but there wasn’t a word of comfort...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED Season Premiere Review: “Unforgettable”

  UNFORGETTABLE:  Sunday 9PM on CBS – If Nothing Else Is On… You may already have forgotten UNFORGETTABLE.  It debuted in fall 2011 as one of CBS’s seemingly inexhaustible supply of procedurals, its par...
by Mitch Salem