All about ratings, renewals, and cancellations.
Matt Carter Breaking Bad, Dexter
Who cares about the Emmys, or about NFL football? Despite some pretty heavy competition, including from each other, both “Dexter” and “Breaking Bad” set some new records for themselves last night. The Bryan Cranston – Aaron Paul series prepared for its series finale next week in grand fashion, drawing an impressive 6.6 million viewers along […]
Who said that “Downton Abbey” was going to fall apart without Dan Stevens and Jessica Brown Findlay in the cast? The ratings came out on Monday morning for the season 4 premiere, and it was clear almost immediately that ITV had something major to celebrate. Including figures from the +1 catch-up channel (which airs programming […]
In theory, we really liked the idea of “The Neighbors” moving to Friday nights after “Last Man Standing.” The two shows could have had a heavy family audience, with them both being about parents and their colorful crew that are their children. Unfortunately, what we saw here was more evidence that comedies airing on Friday […]
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 […]
Matt Carter America's Got Talent, Survivor, The X Factor
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 […]
Matt Carter Brooklyn Nine-Nine, The Mindy Project
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 […]
Matt Carter Sleepy Hollow, Under the Dome
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 […]
