All about ratings, renewals, and cancellations.
For those of you who have sat around all spring and bashed “Mad Men” for having what may be its worst season yet, it appears as though all of you still made a decision to watch the finale. The numbers have come in for Sunday night’s season 6 finale, and they find the show putting […]
As if there was any doubt by the way in which it took over social media on Sunday night, Nik Wallenda’s trek across a part of the Grand Canyon (but not actually within the realm of the national park, mind you) ended up striking a huge chord with TV viewers. Not only was the dangerous […]
Why is it so difficult these days to launch an original reality TV franchise on network TV? If you look at the major players these days (“The Amazing Race,” “Survivor,” “Dancing with the Stars,” “Hell’s Kitchen”), almost all of them are ten seasons old. The only one that is somewhat-different is “MasterChef,” but that came […]
Matt Carter BBC One, The Voice UK
Let’s start up this article on “The Voice” UK with the good news: The ratings are up for the series with its final episode, which is good news going into what will be a third season next year. Overall, the show, which featured the win of Andrea Begley, brought in 7.24 million viewers, and a […]
Here’s a rather interesting “Hannibal” tidbit to get you a little bit more insight on the show leading up to the season 1 finale airing on Thursday night. Regardless of whether or not NBC had chosen to pick up the show for another season, the series would have found a life somewhere else. (Of course, […]
Remember how we put ABC Family on blast last week for really leveraging the future of “Bunheads,” and putting the entire cast of this show on hold, based on the ratings for some of their new shows? Well, we really should have been doing the same for “The Lying Game.” The possibility of a season […]
Matt Carter Game of Thrones, True Blood
It’s starting to become clear now that “True Blood” is no longer the tent-pole of HBO’s lineup. Just last year, it was pretty unequivocal that when it comes to people viewing live, the vampire drama was still #1 in total viewers along with the 18-49 demographic. However, it now feels like the White Walkers have […]
Matt Carter BBC One, The Voice UK
For the first time in around three weeks, the folks over at “The Voice” UK finally have something to be excited about: The ratings not being completely horrible for a week! So how did the show manage to pull this off? They went back to Saturday night after a week of being on Friday, and […]
Another few days have passed, and there’s still no word on a “Bunheads” renewal. As to why there is more anxiety in the air than usual regarding the show the past few weeks, it’s because ABC Family has long said that their primary reason for waiting to decide the show’s fate is the performance of […]
This test run for John Oliver as host of “The Daily Show” is in some ways a tad unfair. He is going to be consistently compared with Jon Stewart no matter what he does, and this is a rather difficult thing to handle since there is really only one John Stewart. Not only that, but […]
