There is always limited real estate on Friday nights thanks mostly to so many potential viewers doing other things. Therefore, anytime that something comes on the air to huge numbers, almost everything else is of course going to suffer. This was proven last night as “Bruce Jenner: The Interview,” a much-hyped two-hour special featuring the […]
Obviously, Friday night ended up drawing a wide array of headlines when it comes to Bruce Jenner. The former Olympian turned reality TV star gave a lengthy interview with Diane Sawyer on Friday night, and it was one where Jenner explained the decision to identify as a woman. Both Twitter and news websites went ablaze […]
Remember when “The Blacklist” was considered a ratings monster? This is what a weaker season creatively, coupled with a bad programming decision to move you away from Monday nights, will do to you. The show’s return Thursday after a brief hiatus drew just a 1.4 rating in the 18-49 demographic, which makes the show’s future […]
Some truly sad news is coming out late Thursday night, in particular to everyone who watched for many years “Everybody Loves Raymond” on CBS. Sawyer Sweeten, the young actor who played Geoffrey Barone, one of the two sons of Ray Romano’s title character, passed away this morning after committing suicide. He was only 19 years old. […]
We’ve known for a long time that Vince Gilligan had at least a relative interest in doing some more movie work. He wanted his schedule to be a little looser following “Breaking Bad” for that reason, and to a certain extent it is. He has a full showrunning partner on “Better Call Saul” in Peter Gould, […]
Aziz Ansari, Mike Schur teaming up again – Weeks after the end of “Parks and Recreation,” it looks like one of its former stars in Aziz is working again with its showrunner. Aziz and Schur are working alongside “Parks and Recreation” co-executive proudcer Alan Yang on a new comedy for Netflix, the service that has also […]
While we’ve speculated a lot over the years that certain cable series are major warriors in DVR viewing, we have not had a chance to view much in the way of real data … at least until now. The fine folks over at TVbythenumbers have started to compile some real data that show ratings after […]
The numbers are in for Sunday, and it certainly proving itself to be a strange spring for many of the shows on the air right now. First and foremost, NBC is completely falling apart on Sunday night again and this has been going on for March and April. For some reason, they cannot figure out […]
We understand that for some, awards season can be incredibly exhausting … especially if you are a singer in the country music genre. In between the CMA Awards, the American Country Awards (or whatever they are called now), the CMT Awards, and the other mainstream music awards shows, they are very busy year in and […]
Before we talk about the candidates for Episode of the Week for the week of April 12, let us first recognize the winner of the CarterMatt poll from last week: With 51% of the vote, the “Afterlife” episode of “Agents of SHIELD” season 2 wins the honor for the week of April 5. Congrats to […]
