All about ratings, renewals, and cancellations.
Matt Carter Saturday Night Live
Even though Melissa McCarthy may have hosted the best edition of “Saturday Night Live” all season long (complete with appearances from “Game of Thrones” actor Peter Dinklage and impersonations of all the coaches on “The Voice”), the “Bridesmaids” and “Mike & Molly” star simply cannot compare right now with legendary host Justin Timberlake when it […]
Matt Carter Happy Endings, Nikita
Let this be even more proof that moving your show to Friday nights is more or less the TV kiss of death these days if you are a scripted property. Example #1: look at “Fashion Star,” which literally drew an anemic 0.6 rating in the 18-49 demographic that is absolutely keeping “Grimm” from being as […]
Even though Kathy Griffin was able to have a hit on Bravo for many years in “My Life on the D-List,” she was unfortunately just not able to make the same thing work with her primetime talk show “Kathy.” There are some reports coming in from Cincinnati (where the comedian was performing stand-up this week) […]
We’re a little bit late with this “Community” ratings piece (apologies on that), but this really is a case for waiting for some bad news. The final numbers have already come in for Thursday night’s new episode, and overall it’s not good. Just how sad of a situation are we talking about here? Basically, the […]
Just in case you were worried about “Vikings” becoming history (insert random rim shot here), the show’s network has decided to keep their first-ever scripted series around for another go. We’re hearing right now that the decision has been made by History to order a 10-episode second season of “Vikings,” which will air at some […]
When we wrote our ratings debate piece for “Nashville” earlier this week, we basically said that this show was really going to be a toss-up as for whether or not ABC would want to take a flier on a second season. From one standpoint, it is critically-acclaimed and has a loyal following. However, you have […]
Going into the start of this TV season, there were some shows that we also assumed would be safe automatically. “Revenge” was one of these shows. After all, it was a breakout hit its first season, was the talk of Emmy buzz for Madeleine Stowe, and was drawing solid ratings on Wednesday nights. When it […]
Matt Carter Nashville, Sarah Chalke
For a solid four seasons now, ABC has been looking for some sort of reasonably companion to “Modern Family” on Wednesday nights, whether it be “Happy Endings,” “Cougar Town,” “Don’t Trust the B—- in Apartment 23,” “The Neighbors,” or “Suburgatory.” However, all of these shows had one thing in common: they were not really able […]
The months of March and April are definitely a curious time when it comes to evaluating the true nature of shows. Are people really watching them, or just leaving on their TVs after watching something that came on before? Look at this past fall, when “Go On” and “The New Normal” were drawing ratings that would easily […]
Matt Carter Doctor Who, Orphan Black
BBC America has quite a thing going for it now on Saturday nights. While few other networks out there even choose to program what is often a time in which people go out and do other things, this particular slice of cable is actually following the British tradition, as many of their popular programs actually […]
