All about ratings, renewals, and cancellations.
Well, here is something that you don’t see everyday: A cable network making a move to cancel a show after its first season. Typically, we think this is a mistake; these networks like to show good will towards studios to convince them to bring on their programs, and they also understand the value of building […]
The bad news for “The X Factor” USA just won’t stop, as the talent show has found itself once again at a series low. With that, it is almost time for the question to be asked: Are we really at the end of the road for the singing-competition genre? Overall, the latest edition of the […]
BBC America has only recently started to dive head-first into the world of scripted programming, but we already have some sad news now to report about the death of the first-ever original property for the network. Sources have confirmed that “Copper,” which got off to an ambitious start but has also performed only okay in […]
Overall, this was about the start that we expected for “Survivor: Blood vs. Water” last night, given that the competition included part of the “America’s Got Talent” finale and “The X Factor” being back on the air. For its 90-minute premiere, the show drew a solid 2.6 rating in the 18-49 demographic, and also 9.5 […]
One day after Fox had an opportunity to celebrate the ratings success of “Sleepy Hollow,” they may be doing a little bit of a muted celebration for a pair of their other new series. The thing about the premiere of “Dads,” for example, is that it drew a 2.1 rating in the 18-49 demographic for […]
Who imagined that “Sleepy Hollow” would scare up numbers this big? The premiere of Fox’s new mystery-horror series, which we personally believed to be a wonderful surprise and a great deal of camp fun, got off to a great start as the first new show to pop up on the schedule. Overall, this show won […]
“Breaking Bad” continues to break very, very well … at least when it comes to some of the ratings that the show continues to draw. For an episode that we an other critics dubbed the most powerful installment in the history of the show, AMC saw ratings of over 6.4 million viewers, and also a […]
We’re not going to talk much about the ratings for some shows in this article, mostly because NFL football skewed the ratings of some shows like “Rookie Blue” and “Big Brother” to make them seem higher than they actually are. Instead, let’s talk about “The X Factor” rising slightly this week en route to scoring […]
We will be honest here and say from the get-go that we did not expect the ratings to be very good for the season 3 premiere of “The X Factor,” but did we expect them to be this big of a disappoint so quickly? Maybe you can blame the lack of A-list judges, or maybe […]
“Sons of Anarchy” has long been a ratings beast for FX, but last night the motorcycle drama from Kurt Sutter mauled much of the primetime competition. Overall, the 93-minute premiere episode “Straw” drew series highs of a massive 3.1 rating in the 18-49 demographic along with 5.87 million viewers. Typically, you see shows that go […]
