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THE SKED’S THURSDAY SCRIPTED CABLE SCORECARD – 8/2/12

Some networks were untouched by the massive Olympics ratings being piled up by NBC, while others appeared to be hit hard. USA: Last night’s BURN NOTICE showed the limitations of the USA house format, as what shou...

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THE SKED CABLE REVIEW: USA’s “Necessary Roughness”

> Premieres Wednesday 10PM on USA: Change the Channel NECESSARY ROUGHNESS departs from the USA Network formula in several ways: our heroine Dani Santino (Callie Thorne) is the mother of teenagers, she doesn’t ...

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WORLD CUP SKEDBALL: Ratings for Final USA Match as Round of 16 Ends

Ratings for Tuesday’s ESPN matches have been added to the table below. The 3:30 pm telecast of Belgium vs USA averaged 13,440,000 persons 2+, just behind the 13,774,000 for USA vs Portugal on Sunday June 22 at 6 pm, a m...

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THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “White Collar”

WHITE COLLAR: Tuesday 9PM on USA WHERE WE WERE: Watching Neal Caffrey (Matt Bomer) and his closest crony Mozzie (Willie Garson) fly away. Neal is a con man, art thief and forger let out of jail (with an ankl...

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THE SKED SUNDAY SCRIPTED CABLE SCORECARD – 8/5/12

Any negative ratings effect due to the Olympics seems to have subsided, as the numbers were generally up for cable on Sunday night. HBO: TRUE BLOOD, of course, was in the lead, with a 2.7 rating that was up slightly fr...

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THE SKED: The (Last) Return of “Entourage” and Cable Sundays

> On summer Sunday nights, the 4 broadcast networks air a grand total of zero hours of original scripted programming; instead, viewers get a strict diet of animated repeats (FOX) and unscripted series like Big Brother (CBS), Am...

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WORLD CUP SKEDBALL: Complete Round of 16 Ratings (Updated with ABC)

Ratings are now complete for the Round of 16, the eight matches that start the Knockout Stage, as the Saturday June 28 ratings for ABC have sauntered in. Two solid matches on that Saturday, ranking #7 and #8 overall (out of 5...

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THE SKED: TUESDAY SCRIPTED CABLE NETWORK SCORECARD

USA: The season premieres of WHITE COLLAR and COVERT AFFAIRS were significantly down from last year’s summer launches, and we won’t know until next week if that’s attributable to premiering against ba...

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THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Common Law”

A return to COMMON LAW for its season finale didn’t show any appreciable improvement from its unimpressive early episodes. Standards at USA Network aren’t exactly at the level of Sunday night on HBO, but Co...

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The Sked: PROMO WATCH Changing Time Periods

>ShowBuzzDaily’s PROMO WATCH, our weekly look at how the networks spend their precious resource of on-air promotion time, will move to Wednesdays starting next week. This will give us a better chance to see how each...

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THE SKED’S THURSDAY SCRIPTED CABLE SCORECARD – 7/12/12

Remember when ANGER MANAGEMENT was supposed to be a big deal? FX: Charlie Sheen’s opus continued to fall steeply, down last night to a 1.0 rating in the 18-49 demo (a 30% drop from last week, and an awful 55% fro...

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THE SKED’S SUNDAY SCRIPTED CABLE SCORECARD – 8/12/12

Status was mostly quo in the Sunday night cable ratings. HBO: The craziness that is TRUE BLOOD was down just a tick from last week, still overwhelmingly beating the rest of cable with 2.6 (and almost 80% of its viewers...

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THE SKED SERIES FINALE REVIEW: “In Plain Sight”

Although IN PLAIN SIGHT was never one of USA’s breakout hits or signature shows like Monk or Burn Notice, it gave the network 5 sturdy seasons, holding down slots on 3 different nights in the course of its run, and tonigh...

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THE SKED PILOT REVIEW: “Political Animals”

POLITICAL ANIMALS: Sunday 10PM on USA – Potential DVR Alert POLITICAL ANIMALS is a lot more Brothers & Sisters than it is The West Wing, which makes sense because it’s the work of Greg Berlanti, ...

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THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Political Animals”

POLITICAL ANIMALS remained uncompelling to the very end, which is remarkable when you consider that its final episode threw in, among other things, the (apparent) death of the President of the United States. The show ...

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THE SKED’S THURSDAY SCRIPTED CABLE SCORECARD – 8/2/12

THE SKED CABLE REVIEW: USA’s “Necessary Roughness”

WORLD CUP SKEDBALL: Ratings for Final USA Match as Round of 16 Ends

THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “White Collar”

THE SKED SUNDAY SCRIPTED CABLE SCORECARD – 8/5/12

THE SKED: The (Last) Return of “Entourage” and Cable Sundays

WORLD CUP SKEDBALL: Complete Round of 16 Ratings (Updated with ABC)

THE SKED: TUESDAY SCRIPTED CABLE NETWORK SCORECARD

THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Common Law”

The Sked: PROMO WATCH Changing Time Periods

THE SKED’S THURSDAY SCRIPTED CABLE SCORECARD – 7/12/12

THE SKED’S SUNDAY SCRIPTED CABLE SCORECARD – 8/12/12

THE SKED SERIES FINALE REVIEW: “In Plain Sight”

THE SKED PILOT REVIEW: “Political Animals”

THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Political Animals”

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