All about ratings, renewals, and cancellations.
Want to know a shocker from the world of basic cable? Well, here it is: a group of duck call-makers from Louisiana managed to draw more total viewers on Wednesday night than one of the most-hyped cable series of the year. Even still, both parties do very much have something to celebrate. On Wednesday night, […]
We hate to tell you we told you so, but …. we did. Only a matter of hours after “Animal Practice” posted its worst 18-49 rating of the season in a 1.0, NBC has already decided that it is putting the low-rated veterinarian comedy out to pasture. The show will live on primetime until November 7, but […]
Matt Carter Arrow, Chicago Fire, Nashville, Supernatural
When it comes to the battle of new shows to stay alive, there is clearly one winner now on Wednesday nights, and it’s on a network in The CW who has famously fallen hard year after year as of late: “Arrow.” As a matter of fact, we would be readying the full-season order now if […]
Matt Carter Ben and Kate, The Voice
The latest Presidential debate dominated most of the airtime on Tuesday, and this is more or less reflected in the fact that more than 50 million people ended up catching Barack Obama and Mitt Romney address the nation on all of the major networks that carried it. However, there was still some other good content […]
We have been shocked by some numbers in the past, but we are probably more stunned by the consistent performance of “Revolution” on Monday night than anything else on TV. Does the show have a great lead-in with “The Voice”? Definitely, but people still have to ultimately watch, and thus far the series is proving […]
There are not necessarily that many shows out there that are as willing to embrace tragedy quite like “Downton Abbey,” and there are even fewer that manage to maintain their same audience as a result. (Spoiler alert ahead!) Sunday night’s new installment may have been the saddest in the show’s three-year history thanks to a […]
In case Dish Network was wondering, AMC just made a major case for itself as to why it is one of the leaders in providing original content on cable. After all, “The Walking Dead” just posted some premiere figures that are larger than pretty much any show on the past week, regardless of whether they […]
Matt Carter Once Upon a Time, The Mentalist
When it just comes to a variety of programming being on TV, there are few nights of TV as competitive as what we saw on Sunday. In addition to baseball and football airing on two broadcast networks, you also had cable with a heavy presence courtesy of “The Walking Dead,” “The Real Housewives of New […]
The first live+7 data for premiere week arrived on Monday, and there is some pretty interesting information in ther efor some of you ratings geeks out there. First things first, though, we must start with an explanation for those of you who are new to the game. Networks do look at DVR numbers when it […]
Matt Carter Saturday Night Live
There’s no way of getting around it right now: “Saturday Night Live” is in a ratings slump, and it is in one at a time in which you would expect them to be flourishing as a part of the Presidential election. So what exactly is going wrong here? It’s really hard to chalk it up […]
