All about ratings, renewals, and cancellations.
Now is not a good time to be a comedy on Tuesday night. We were worried almost from the get-go that ABC’s decision to follow up “Dancing with the Stars” with “Happy Endings” and “Don’t Trust the B— in Apartment 23” was a risky one, mostly in that these shows were without much of a […]
Matt Carter Real Housewives of Atlanta
Are “The Real Housewives of Atlanta” being replaced as a global phenomenon by some Amish people trying to create a new life for themselves in New York City? It may be debatable as to whether or not this is the case in the long-term, but one thing that we can say for certain is that […]
For the first few weeks, it felt as though NBC had a consistent hit on their hands in “Revolution”; but now, we are starting to have our doubts. The much-heralded new series, which got off to a huge start earlier this fall with a 4.1 rating in the 18-49 demographic, has now sunk down to […]
The week of October 22 proved to be a rather impressive one when it came to DVR ratings. How much so? Let’s just leave it at this: there are so many shows this week that gained more than our meaningful 45% in the 18-49 demographic that we have to change our criteria a little bit. […]
Matt Carter Nikita, Undercover Boss
After last night’s stellar Friday across the board for TV, you knew that those numbers were not going to be able to stay that strong forever. With that in mind, we now have some not-so-great news to share for a number of the programs that were on the schedule. But why not start things off […]
Last week, we commented that “Jersey Shore” season 6 was almost awkward to watch thanks to the aftermath from Hurricane Sandy tearing through the entire state of New Jersey, and the poor ratings for the show seemed to reflect that. Was the show already on the way down long before that? Sure, but that in […]
Apparently, getting okay ratings is more of a deciding factor for The CW this year than losing a huge chunk of your lead-in audience. Then again, the ratings for some other shows across their schedule may have been enough still for the network to force their hand and give “Beauty and the Beast” a full […]
Matt Carter The Big Bang Theory, The Voice
For the first time all season, a show actually managed to beat an episode of “The Voice” in the 18-49 demographic, and unsurprisingly it was the same show that destroyed another beast in “American Idol” earlier this year: “The Big Bang Theory.” Despite having more competition than ever, and also being a show that is […]
Matt Carter Arrow, Supernatural
For Wednesday night’s television ratings, we all learned a valuable lesson: singing competitions have no impact on superheroes or anything “Supernatural.” As a matter of fact, they could be an asset. On week after Halloween night potentially led to their weakest audiences since the season premieres, both “Arrow” and “Supernatural” recovered fully Wednesday to provide […]
Was it a good decision to air a new “Sons of Anarchy” season 5 episode up against the Presidential election Tuesday night? This is something that we wondered during our actual review for the episode, largely since it was such an unpredictable gamble based largely on the fact that this was around the time that […]
