Posts Tagged ‘TNT’
 

 

SKEDBALL: March Madness TV Ratings through Second Sunday

Updated ratings for the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament through the second Sunday of March Madness (the Regional Finals). Two games have been added to the CBS averages, and two games have been added to the TBS average. C...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Falling Skies”

  FALLING SKIES told a somewhat different story this season under showrunner Remi Aubuchon than it had in its first two years, and the changes worked fairly well for the most part.  Tom Mason (Noah Wyle) and his plucky ba...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Dallas”

  DALLAS:  Monday 9PM on TNT The most important fact about this second season of the revamped DALLAS is, of course, the sad event that occurred off-screen:  the death of Larry Hagman, the legendary J.R. Ewing.  Hagman a...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Falling Skies”

  FALLING SKIES – Sunday 9PM on TNT   WHERE WE WERE:  On our way into a spaceship.  The aliens have arrived, and contrary to what Executive Producer Steven Spielberg used to tell us, they’re not nice at ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

SKEDBALL: March Madness through Elite Eight Round Saturday and Sunday

Chart updated with persons 2+ audiences for the four games played Saturday and Sunday March 28-29, 2015 (the Elite Eight Round): Telecast 61: TBS Saturday 6:00 pm #1-Wisconsin 85 #2-Arizona 78 (Arizona up 33-30 at half) Tel...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

THE SKED: “Rizzoli & Isles” and “Perception” Start Strong

  RIZZOLI & ISLES has been one of TNT’s most reliable hits, and it launched Season 4 last night in very healthy fashion.  The show was up from its Season 3 premiere in all measurements, with 6.6M total viewers (...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED: TUESDAY SCRIPTED CABLE NETWORK SCORECARD

  USA:  The season premieres of WHITE COLLAR and COVERT AFFAIRS were significantly down from last year’s summer launches, and we won’t know until next week if that’s attributable to premiering against ba...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED @ CABLE REVIEW: “Falling Skies”

> FALLING SKIES – Sundays 10PM on TNT – If Nothing Else Is On… Or:  how is FALLING SKIES not Terra Nova?  I’ve raved about FOX’s Fall dinosaur spectacle, and here’s another Steven S...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED: The Day in Comings and Goings

  The Friday before a holiday weekend is a time-honored day to release bad news, but one of today’s events was a good one:  the announcement that HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER will return for a 9th and presumably final se...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED RIP WATCH: “Men Of A Certain Age”

> HBO can afford to keep little-watched shows like In Treatment and Treme around, because they’re not selling advertising–they’re selling a brand.  People who will only watch True Blood and Entourage feel...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

SKEDBALL: March Madness through Monday’s National Championship

Chart updated with persons 2+ audience for the National Championship on Monday April 6, 2015: Telecast 67: CBS Monday 9:18 pm #1-Duke 68 #1-Wisconsin 63 (Tied 31-31 at half) CBS struck gold Monday night with an average aud...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

SKEDBALL: March Madness TV Ratings

Through Thursday, coverage of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament on CBS and the Turner networks (TNT, TBS and TruTV) is averaging almost 9.2 million viewers 2+ live+same day across the four networks in an average minute...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

THE SKED: Preliminary Cable Ratings for “Game Of Thrones” and “Falling Skies”

  Remember all those people who said they’d never watch GAME OF THRONES or for that matter HBO again after the Red Wedding?  Well, they didn’t go anywhere.  Last night’s Season 3 finale had a viewership...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED SUNDAY SCRIPTED CABLE SCORECARD – 7/1/12

  We speculated yesterday that HBO might have carefully timed its renewal of THE NEWSROOM not to coincide with the show’s Episode 2 ratings, and we may have been right. HBO:  The Newsroom took a substantial hit from...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED’S SUNDAY SCRIPTED CABLE SCORECARD – 7/15/12

  Breaking Bad‘s arrival was the big ratings news on Sunday night, while the launch of Political Animals wasn’t. HBO:  TRUE BLOOD, as usual, took the night with a 2.7 that was a tick higher than last week, bea...
by Mitch Salem