When you look at the ratings for Thursday night, it’s easy to be excited for “The Big Bang Theory.” After all, wasn’t it expected that the CBS sitcom was going to suddenly experience a huge surge in the ratings? There was almost no competition on the air for one, and to go along with that, this was […]
You may have seen this one coming, and it is now cemented as fact: Caitlyn Jenner is Barbara Walters‘ Most Fascinating Person of 2015. This news was confirmed during the yearly special on ABC Thursday night, as the former Olympian landed at the top of the list over many other familiar names: Jeff Bezos, Donald […]
Javier Colon. Jermaine Paul. Tessanne Chin. Craig Wayne Boyd. What do these names have in common? They’ve all won seasons of “The Voice.” However, it may have taken a moment or two for some out there who have seen all of the seasons of the show to even remember that. From the beginning, NBC has […]
What makes a great fanbase? That’s a question that is hard to qualify or quantify, since so much of it is up to an individual. You can be a tremendous individual fan and think that you are making a difference. Often you are. The truth, though, is that in the end, some bases for shows […]
The ratings for Tuesday night are hardly the liveliest that have ever been reported in television history, and there’s a reason for that: Ultimately, there just was not that much that happened over the course of the day. You had a few shows airing new episodes, while many of the networks opted for either repeats […]
It looks like NBC didn’t have the best time ever with Neil Patrick Harris’ new variety show. After one season of the show and ratings that decreased after losing some heavy-hitting lead-ins, the network opted (per Variety) today to not renew “Best Time Ever with Neil Patrick Harris.” The show was a bit of a […]
TNT has made some huge decisions on the future of some of their shows, and the majority of them are to be expected. The network has, per Deadline, canceled the Sean Bean series “Legends” after two seasons, and both “Public Morals” and “Agent X” after only one year on the air. In the case of […]
We know that the phrase “golden age of television” is one that is bandied about often by television critics and the media, but how do you look at a list like the one below for Top Actress in the CarterMatt Awards and feel like we’re in anything else? There are a good eight or nine […]
Holiday concert events are typically the sort of thing that networks just put on the air for the sake of filling a spot. They don’t want to air new episodes of their own shows close to Christmas, and these for the most part are relatively inexpensive to make and also are mutually beneficial for both […]
We’ve spent the past few days in our CarterMatt Awards article series tributing some of the unheralded stars in the world of our favorite medium, and that has been a particularly fun collection to work on. Now, we’re moving into a little more of a traditional Top Actor category, which is something that we have done on […]
