Posts Tagged ‘gcb’
 

 

The Sked: SUNDAY RATINGS March 18

>Another weak Sunday night on network television.  CBS narrowly won the night with Adults 18-49 in the preliminary fast nationals, thanks to coverage of the NCAA Basketball Tournament until 7:43 pm.  ABC was down from...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

THE SKED’S PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “GCB”

> A lot can happen between the creation of a TV pilot in the spring and production of episodes for the regular season:  a writing/producing team is hired, audience focus groups weigh in, networks and studios (which may hav...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

The Sked: SUNDAY RATINGS April 8

>CBS won Easter Sunday with the help of The Masters and a guy named Bubba, while the other networks, largely in repeats, failed to average above a 2 rating throughout the evening.              ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

The Sked: SUNDAY RATINGS March 11

>Many Sunday shows were down from recent weeks last night, with much of the decline attributable to the shift to Daylight Saving Time over the weekend (particularly in the early part of prime time).  However, the drop in C...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

The Sked: SUNDAY RATINGS April 15

>A very ugly Sunday night in prime time on the broadcast networks, with no network averaging above a 2 rating for the night.  CBS premiered NYC 22 at 10 pm to a very lame 1.5 rating with Adults 18-49, while ABC aired part ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

THE SKED: ABC MIDSEASON – UPDATE: “Pan Am” Crashes; “Cougar Town” Diminishes

> UPDATE:  The other shoe is falling on COUGAR TOWN, and it’s not a good fit:  ABC has cut the show’s order from 22 episodes to 15, and will announce its timeslot at the TCA in January.  Deadline says...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED’S SUNDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 3/11/12

> GCB gives, even while DST taketh away. ABC:  GCB is a very bad show, but not an unpopular one.  Its 2.3 inched up over last week’s premiere, at least in preliminary numbers, and seemed to squeak out a timeslot...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED’S SUNDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 4/15/12

> NYC 22 goes down with the ship. CBS:  It was almost a full year ago that CBS announced the arrival of NYC 22 (which has changed titles since then), and after all that time… nobody cared.  The show debuted...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

The Sked: PROMO WATCH — Update through February 19

>Over halfway through the February ratings sweep, the broadcast networks continue to exhibit very different strategies in allocating their precious on-air promotion time to market and launch new programs as well as supporting t...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED: ABC MAY FINALES

> ABC has announced its schedule of season finales for May: May 1:  LAST MAN STANDING May 6:  GCB May 7:  CASTLE May 13:  ONCE UPON A TIME               DESPERATE HOUSEWIVE...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

The Sked: SUNDAY RATINGS April 22

>Another Sunday without a network averaging over a 2 rating.  Amazing Race continues to shine for CBS, but NYC 22 is slipping away quickly in its second telecast.  ABC’s Once Upon a Time remains the top-rated sh...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

The Sked: PROMO WATCH — Update through February 23

>GCB and the Oscars are the big bets for ABC in recent days, while NBC continues to make an extraordinary push for Awake.  CBS is hoping to take Person of Interest to another level, and FOX just doesn’t seem to be ma...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

The Sked: SUNDAY RATINGS April 29 — The Declines Continue

>On the first Sunday of the May Sweep, ABC won the night by matching its rating on the same evening last year, while the other broadcast declined from year-ago levels: CBS down four tenths of a rating point, FOX down a negligib...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

The Sked: PROMO WATCH — Update through March 1

>The most recent Promo Watch numbers are based on prime time broadcast network programming between February 16 and March 1, with about 16 hours of programming sampled for each network over that period.  (Click “read ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

THE SKED’S SUNDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 3/18/12

> Fairy tales rule… but watch out for the zombies. ABC:  We won’t know for sure until later today, but odds are that the highest-rated show on TV last night was the season finale of The Walking Dead on AMC (our...
by Mitch Salem