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2017-18 TV Season

UPDATED WITH ANALYSIS: NIELSENWAR: The CBS Fall 2017 Schedule

    See our analysis of the fall line-ups for NBC, FOX and ABC. CBS always has the same story to tell at this time of year.  It portrays itself, with some accuracy, as television’s bastion of consistency, where...
by Mitch Salem
 
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2017-18 TV Season

NIELSENWAR: The NBC Fall 2017 Schedule

  The Upfronts are officially here, more troubled than ever thanks to the ever-declining ratings at the broadcast networks.  (This Variety article does a good job of laying out the ways in which business considerations ar...
by Mitch Salem
 
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2018-19 TV Season

NIELSENWAR: CW Fall Schedule & Analysis (With Full 5-Network Grid)

  Welcome to Upfronts week, when the broadcast networks (or what’s left of them) announce their Fall schedules and attempt to generate billions of dollars worth of excitement from advertisers.  It’s harder than ever t...
by Mitch Salem
 
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2018-19 TV Season

NIELSENWAR: ABC Fall Schedule & Analysis (Includes 5-Network Grid)

  Welcome to Upfronts week, when the broadcast networks (or what’s left of them) announce their Fall schedules and attempt to generate billions of dollars worth of excitement from advertisers.  It’s harder than ever t...
by Mitch Salem
 
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2017-18 TV Season

UPDATED WITH ANALYSIS: NIELSENWAR: The FOX Fall 2017 Schedule

See our commentary on the NBC fall schedule here. FOX had a terrible 2016-17 season (blurred a bit by airing the Super Bowl and a historic World Series).  The closest thing it had to a new hit was Lethal Weapon, and it watch...
by Mitch Salem
 
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2018-19 TV Season

NIELSENWAR: NBC Fall Schedule & Analysis [5-Network Program Grid Added]

  Welcome to Upfronts week, when the broadcast networks (or what’s left of them) announce their Fall schedules and attempt to generate billions of dollars worth of excitement from advertisers.  It’s harder tha...
by Mitch Salem
 
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2017-18 TV Season

UPDATED WITH ANALYSIS–NIELSENWAR: The ABC Fall 2017 Schedule

  Check out our looks at the NBC and FOX fall line-ups. ABC’s 2016-17 season was a tale of two genres.  On the comedy side, things were relatively smooth, with American Housewife and Speechless painlessly integ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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NIELSENWAR: Hindsight, Girlfriends’ Guide, and The Perks of Being In the Cable Scripted Game

  Everyone knows that TV is a pitiless business, where a show lives or dies by the ratings it receives. Except… not always. Today, VH1 announced that it was renewing its time-travel dramedy Hindsight, even though the...
by Mitch Salem
 
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2018-19 TV Season

NIELSENWAR: CBS Fall Schedule & Analysis (Including 5-Network Grid)

  Welcome to Upfronts week, when the broadcast networks (or what’s left of them) announce their Fall schedules and attempt to generate billions of dollars worth of excitement from advertisers.  It’s harder than ever t...
by Mitch Salem
 
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2015-16 TV Season

NIELSENWAR: How The Networks Learned To Stop Worrying & Love the Bombs

  1.3.  0.9.  1.4.  1.1.  0.7.  1.2.  1.3. 1.2. Those are, respectively, the most recent Live + Same Day ratings for Quantico, Grandfathered, Code Black (which actually had a bump for the week thanks to a higher than...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Articles

NIELSENWAR Network Midterm Grades: NBC

  We’re continuing with our examination of the broadcast networks as they near the launch of the midseason part of their schedules.  We’ve already assigned grades to ABC and CBS, and today it’s Peacock s...
by Mitch Salem
 
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2014-15 TV Season

NIELSENWAR Full Season Network Report Cards: NBC

  Has there ever been a #1 network as screwed up as this year’s edition of NBC? Full Season To Date (through May 3) 18-49 Rating Average:  2.04 (#1), Down 13.7% From Last Season Season Grade:  D+ What Happened:  S...
by Mitch Salem
 
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2016-17 TV Season

UPDATED – NIELSENWAR UPFRONTS: FOX Fall–and Midseason–2016 Schedule (with NBC/FOX grid)

  UPDATED with reactions to FOX trailers, which are available here:   The FOX fall schedule is a puzzlement. FOX seems to have done little to help itself with its fall 2016 line-up, leaving two of its weakest nights unimp...
by Mitch Salem
 
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2016-17 TV Season

UPDATED: NIELSENWAR UPFRONTS: Fall CBS Schedule(s)

  Conservative CBS is making lots of changes next fall. UPDATED with reactions to trailers, which are available here.     No network preaches the “Everything is just fine in broadcast TV” scripture louder...
by Mitch Salem
 
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2014-15 TV Season

NIELSENWAR Network Midterm Grades: FOX

  The midseason part of the broadcast network schedule kicks off in a few hours, and we’ve spent the past few days taking a look at ABC, CBS and NBC.  Today it’s the turn of the most critical patient in the qu...
by Mitch Salem
 
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