All about ratings, renewals, and cancellations.
Well, sometimes a little bit of controversy is all you need in order to get viewers checking out your show. After rumors started to swirl about Jay Leno’s future on “The Tonight Show,” including whether or not Jimmy Fallon could replace him as early as fall 2014, curiosity in actually seeing what Leno would say […]
We’ve wrapped up our ratings debate articles when it comes to some of The CW shows currently on the bubble, so with that in mind, it only seems appropriate now that we cross over to another network in ABC with a number of other question marks. Despite having a number of advertised “hits,” the ratings […]
Well, NBC may have just learned a valuable lesson when it comes to the state of their programming: they should have just left “Go On” off of the air until “The Voice” came back with new episodes. The Matthew Perry comedy was winking link a stone the entire time that it was off the air […]
Matt Carter Revolution, The Voice
At the moment, it must be good to be NBC. For the first time since the start of the spring season, the network actually has something worth celebrating when it comes to their programming: the performance of their new shows Monday night. First of all, who saw “The Voice” beating “American Idol” into next week? […]
Matt Carter The Big Bang Theory
Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve found great enjoyment in tracking just how much of a ratings machine that “The Big Bang Theory” has become on CBS. We already know that it is the most-watched comedy on television, and on weeks when there is no competition from “Modern Family,” it is even more interesting […]
When it comes to the complicated business of television ratings, it’s not only about performance. It’s also about expectations, and whether or not you are getting the numbers that the network expects in a given timeslot. One great example of this last year came via “The Secret Circle,” a show drawing decent numbers for The […]
What in the world has happened to “Once Upon a Time” this spring? Despite the past two weeks being some of the best work of the entire series, we’re not seeing the same sort of dividends that we are used to from it. As a matter of fact, we wonder if there are some ABC […]
Matt Carter The Carrie Diaries
Back before the fall season first began, there was one CW pilot that we were circling as something that could be a home run for the network: “The Carrie Diaries.” After all, it took a popular franchise (“Sex and the City”), a promising young actress (AnnaSophia Robb), and a network that has, with such shows […]
There really was not too much to talk about in the way of ratings Friday night with “Shark Tank” and others in repeats, but there were two shows that in particular needed to turn in strong performances: “Last Man Standing” as well as “Malibu Country.” ABC put a lot of effort into trying to make […]
Last year, we certainly received a great deal of flak from “Nikita” fans for suggesting that their show would likely be canceled, mostly because the ratings were at the time lower than the majority of the shows on The CW’s schedule. However, we have also said over time that if the show managed to be […]
