> 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...
It was a big night for basketball and song. ABC: Per Mitch Metcalf: We are estimating that last night’s Game 6 of the NBA FINALS, in which Miami forced a Game 7 on Thursday by beating San Antonio in overtime, w...
Our soothsaying group of former NBC head of Scheduling Mitch Metcalf, longtime head of NBC Current Programming Ted Frank and myself is continuing to set out instant, perhaps foolhardy predictions of what next fall’...
NBC won another Monday night last night with adults 18-49 according to the fast national ratings, but it was the worst Monday rating of the season by a mile (a 3.3 rating from 8-11 pm compared to a 4.1 Monday night average the ...
The Upfronts are over, which means the real Upfronts are about to begin–that is, the networks’ advance sale of advertising time (usually about 80% of the season’s total) for the Fall 2013 TV season. A...
SMASHWatch is glad TV shows don’t close in Boston. NBC: Last night’s SMASH pulled off the trick of being both melodramatic (poisoning! illicit sex!) and remarkably dull, an anticlimactic way to hea...
NBC Monday moved up again, a 4.3 Adult 18-49 prime time rating in the fast nationals (probably a 4.4 in the official nationals). CBS and ABC are even with recent weeks. FOX earned a 1.3 in the fast nationals for Game 2 of St ...
Here is how the week is shaping up for the top cable telecasts (in bold) and top broadcast programs (in regular type) for this week through Thursday, ranked by adult 18-49 rating. The complete ranking for last week is provide...
> For one night, at least, all NBC’s dreams came true. NBC: THE VOICE blew away its competition, especially in the 9-10PM hour. Its 6.6 rating over 2 hours was naturally way down from Sunday night, where it ha...
The Voice sings sweetly for NBC, NBC: To the great relief of NBC, THE VOICE returned with a 4.7 rating, higher than the show’s fall average and just slightly below the highest rating of its fall cycle. (It was, how...
> So much for SMASH being a hit. NBC: Leaving the numbers aside for a moment, on a dramatic level SMASH after 3 episodes is starting to lose its practically-cable sheen, and look a lot more like a high-class ABC soap.&nbs...
Another winning Monday night for NBC, although the 4.0 adult 18-49 rating in the preliminary fast nationals is actually at the low end for this season. CBS, ABC and FOX are back to where they were three weeks ago, before the ...
There’s an old saying that you can’t plan for crazy. And that brings us to some of NBC’s official Fall TV schedule: Let’s take a look, night by night. MONDAY: Things begin logica...
Say what you will about NBC, but no one right now can touch its Monday night. NBC: Remarkably, the network made a last-minute decision to preempt last night’s Revolution (which featured a bombing storyline) in fa...