All about ratings, renewals, and cancellations.
Who says that Memorial Day has to be bad for television audiences? While this was a pretty major excuse for some network shows to suffer somewhat on the holiday, the return of two popular A&E series managed to draw ratings that were higher than even last year, and that is in spite of them airing […]
Do DVR ratings matter save for having good material to put in press releases? This is certainly a question that many ponder over, especially as networks take a look at whether or not there can be a business model that allows for some sort of ad revenue to really be made from these viewings. For […]
Matt Carter The Bachelorette, The Voice
Let this be a lesson to all future network TV programmers who seem for whatever reason to have not gotten the memo already. Debuting your shows on Memorial Day is a terrible idea. While some people may be starting to settle in for the week, others are too busy going out and eating barbecue until […]
Matt Carter Britain's Got Talent
At this point, we assume that “America’s Got Talent” would be thrilled to get the sort of numbers that the British show has, especially when you consider how strong the “Britain’s Got Talent” ratings are in proportion. For its first live show on Monday (which is a part of a week-long event celebrating the best […]
There’s some interesting news coming out concerning “The Voice” UK today, and it really has to be the last thing that you want to see: Your ratings going down the tubes right around the same time that your show gets a renewal for another season. Let’s start with what may actually make people excited which […]
If you’ve enjoyed watching NBC’s Bryan Fuller adaptation of “Hannibal,” you better hope to get enough enjoyment out of the next few weeks to last a lifetime. Why? Despite not having the likes of “Scandal” and “Elementary” new episodes as competition, the show still found a way to sink to a new series low in […]
How’s this for depressing TV news? Out of the dozens upon dozens of new scripted / reality TV programming in the past year, less than ten shows on major networks (excluding news magazines) actually saw their average 18-49 rating increase year-to-year. Compare this to cable, where you have shows like “The Walking Dead,” “Duck Dynasty,” […]
Matt Carter Chicago Fire, MasterChef
The ratings are in for Wednesday, and overall the best way to describe it is as varying degrees of “meh.” Despite there being some season finales on the schedule, not all of the shows decided to really take advantage of the opportunity at all. There are a few major offenders here, beginning with the biggest […]
In looking at the ratings for “Bates Motel,” the people over at A&E have to be rather thrilled right about now. This is a network known mostly these days for “Duck Dynasty” all around the clock, and their two prominent scripted shows in “The Glades” and “Longmire” both air during the summer. This “Psycho” prequel-of-sorts […]
Matt Carter Saturday Night Live
And now, we present a history lesson to all of you out there bellowing that “Saturday Night Live” is dead and/or dying after so many years. The ratings are in for the season finale featuring host Ben Affleck, and they proved that at the end of the day, not much has really changed at all […]
