All about ratings, renewals, and cancellations.
Matt Carter A&E, American Idol
Congratulations, “American Idol”: this week, you did not have to suffer the embarrassment of coming in second place to a show about guys with giant beards making duck calls. For its second hour-long block of new episodes this season, “Duck Dynasty” saw itself slip down to a 3.6 rating in the 18-49 demographic Wednesday night, […]
Matt Carter The Walking Dead, Vikings
In case you were wondering why the ratings were down for so many broadcast shows this week, you can really just blame the domination that is currently happening on cable. There were two shows that actually beat everything that aired on network television; not only that, but the race was not even close in the […]
Matt Carter New Girl, The Following
For is giving many of their popular series a rather nice gift on Monday: not having to wait for a ridiculously long time in order to learn as to whether or not they will be renewed for another season. Fox officially confirmed that three of their comedy series, in “Raising Hope,” “The Mindy Project,” and […]
Matt Carter Saturday Night Live
While we found the Kevin Hart-hosted edition of “Saturday Night Live” to be one of the bigger disappointments of the year (at least when it comes to our expectations going into the show, there is still some good news when it comes to the ratings. Overall, the show ended up drawing a strong 2.8 rating […]
The Friday night ratings battle is an interesting one; even though the vast majority of shows fail to even get near a 2.0 rating, there are still many that are on the bubble of potentially returning for another season. Meanwhile, there are also some that are obviously so dead in the water that they are […]
Networks better start shaking in their boots: an original cable series has taken yet another top spot from the major broadcast networks. Already, there was a show in “The Walking Dead” that consistently draws better numbers than anything on Sunday nights (and almost everything not named “The Big Bang Theory,” for that matter), but now […]
Matt Carter American Idol, Modern Family, Survivor
There are a few things that we can really learn from the ratings that are coming in for Wednesday night: viewers are tired of singing competitions, “Survivor” has the most dedicated fanbase out of any show on TV, and that for whatever reason, “Chicago Fire” has emerged as more of a hit at the moment […]
CBS clearly realized with “The Job” that Friday night is no place to launch a new show anymore, so with that in mind they made the smart decision to trying and launch their new police drama “Golden Boy” on Tuesday following their two successful “NCIS” franchises. So was this a smart move? Sure, but we’re […]
The official news is in when it comes to the February sweeps, and we have to say that this was not a good time to be NBC. Just a matter of a month and a half ago, the network’s programming head in Robert Greenblatt was touting the network’s massive success for the fall half of […]
Can anything really deter the unstoppable monster that is “The Walking Dead” at the moment? After looking at the latest numbers that have come in from AMC, we are almost willing to wager here that the answer to this question is “no.” Sunday night’s new episode of the zombie drama end up actually improving its […]
