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THE SKED’S THURSDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 2/2/12

> Sweeps! FOX:  AMERICAN IDOL was steady with last Thursday at 5.4, which meant it was again down around 30% from last year and again saw its first half-hour lose to CBS’s Big Bang Theory.  THE FINDER, airing ag...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED’S SCHEDULE: CBS

  Mitch Metcalf and I, along with veteran network executive Ted Frank, have put together our own versions of the schedules (the real ones will be announced at the nework Upfronts in New York next week). We’ve already...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED: Week 2 + 1 – CBS Network Scorecard

> The third week of a network season is a critical one.  Ratings erosion after a series or season premiere is expected and even acceptable, because it’s understood that not every viewer drawn by hype and marketing wi...
by Mitch Salem
 
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The Sked: Thursday Week 8

Last night the regular CBS Thursday schedule tied its season high (premiere night) with a 3.4 adult 18-49 rating in the fast nationals from 8-11 pm.  Last night is also up over the same night last year (2.8) and up over the se...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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THE SKED’S THURSDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 2/9/12

> Unfortunately for NBC, there are other nights in the week besides Monday. NBC:  The gradual season-long collapse of THE OFFICE continued last night, as the show’s 2.5 hit not just a season low, but its lowest ratin...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED THURSDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 5/17/12

Grey’s has still got it–other veteran shows don’t. ABC:  The GREY’S ANATOMY was up 0.4 from last week to a robust 3.9, its highest rating in months.  That helped push the SCANDAL season finale to a ser...
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THE SKED: Thursday Ratings – Network Scorecard – 10/6/11

> Once-glorious Thursdays continue to become just another broadcast network night. NBC:  Before the season started, all the attention on THE OFFICE was focused on how the show would replace Steve Carell.  But it’...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED’S THURSDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 2/28/12

Post-Sweeps malaise. NBC:  Cleveland must be feeling pretty good about its preemptions last night, as the 9-11PM regular network schedule averaged under a 1.0 rating, with 0.9s for a new 1600 PENN and rerun SVU, and a 1.0 for ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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The Sked: Upscale Ratings — CBS Profile

>In the last post on upscale ratings, we looked at ABC, which has a high number of series that skew substantially toward upper-income viewers but not enough programs with a sizable total audience.  Today, we turn our atten...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Person Of Interest”

  There’s a reason CBS is as successful as it is.  PERSON OF INTEREST is just a procedural–albeit one with an unusually complicated premise–but it mixes solid plotting, well-paced action and just enough ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED: Thursday Ratings – Network Scorecard – 10/13/11

> On a rare night this week not affected by baseball, a mixed set of results for the networks. NBC:  The strategy of double-pumping WHITNEY and PRIME SUSPECT with repeat episodes on Mondays and Wednesdays in order to expos...
by Mitch Salem
 
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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
 
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The Sked: THURSDAY RATINGS May 17 — Fully Updated and Corrected

FOX won again last night, the final Thursday of the May Sweep.  An uptick in American Idol was partially erased by a downtick in Touch.  CBS was mostly original last night, although the key contributor (Big Bang Theory) wa...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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The Sked: PROMO WATCH — Through Tuesday October 18

>On NBC, Grimm is now the network’s #1 promo priority, based on our sampling of programming over the past week.  Up All Night, which received almost a full minute of promo time in Parenthood last night, mov...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Chicago Fire”

  NBC is all-in on CHICAGO FIRE.  Not only has it given the show a plum spot for the fall on Tuesdays with The Voice as its lead-in, it’s ordered a police-oriented spin-off for midseason.  All this enthusiasm is a ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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