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If Jay Leno Show Does OK, Expect Competitors to Follow

Posted on 05 January 2009 by Bill Gorman

Last month’s announcement that NBC will put The Jay Leno Show on every weekday at 10pm beginning next fall prompted CBS head Les Moonves to publicly state that his business was doing just fine, thank you very much. But comparing the estimated production costs for Leno vs. scripted shows given by Mediaweek:[...]

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Biggest Mid-Season Hit? Biggest Mid-Season Flop? You Make the Call

Posted on 04 January 2009 by Bill Gorman

Last summer, I asked our readers to pick the fall season’s biggest new hit and biggest new flop. The wisdom of the crowds did OK, choosing Fringe as the biggest hit (it was the #2 new show of the fall) and choosing The Mentalist as hit #3 (it was the biggest success of the fall), but Knight Rider at #4 was a miss. On the flop side, the crowd nailed The Ex-List, one of the earliest shows to be cancelled, but completely missed the debacle that was the CW’s Sunday night.

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Saturday Ratings: Colts vs. Chargers averages 23.84 million in prime time

Posted on 04 January 2009 by Robert Seidman

The San Diego Chargers upset the Indianapolis Colts in an exciting overtime game that averaged 23.84 million viewers and an 8.5/23 rating/share among 18-49 year olds between 8pm-11pm according to preliminary overnight numbers.

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3D Glasses for Super Bowl and Chuck

Posted on 03 January 2009 by Robert Seidman

Updated to embed the video of the commercial via Youtube and link to the official NBC press release, including info on how to obtain the 3D glasses.

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Cancel/Renew Index

Fans of Terminator, Life, Knight Rider, Gary Unmarried Should Look On The Bright Side

Posted on 23 December 2008

While it may seem to many that our Renew /Cancel Index is just a continuing story of anxiety and woe, for the holiday season I think fans of Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles, Life, Knight Rider and Gary Unmarried should look on the bright side. Instead of lamenting the fact that they’re very unlikely to be renewed for the 2009-10 season, consider that they all could easily have been cancelled early this season instead of surviving until May. At least you have another half season’s worth of shows to watch! [...]

Nielsen Top Cable TV Show Ratings

Football, WWE RAW and NCIS rule weekly cable viewing

Posted on 30 December 2008

For the week, the final Monday Night Football game of the season with 13.80 million led cable viewing by a large margin, followed by several college bowl games on ESPN and pre/post game coverage via ESPN’s Gameday. The Champs Sports Bowl where Wisconsin was thoroughly pummeled by Florida State led the bowl game coverage on cable with 7.059 million average viewers.[...]

Nielsen Weekly Top Broadcast TV Show Ratings

Sunday Night Football, 60 Minutes, Two and a Half Men rerun lead weekly viewing

Posted on 30 December 2008

Though the last regular season installment of NBC’s Sunday Night Football led a lackluster week of mostly reruns, CBS again dominated taking eight of the top ten spots and fourteen out of twenty.

Top DVR Shows

Top Ten DVR viewing among 18-49 year olds for the week ending 11/30/08

Posted on 23 December 2008

While we figure out what to do about posting live plus seven day DVR viewing on a regular basis in the spirit of both “better late than never” and “it’s better than nothing” here is a graphic of the top 10 most viewed shows on a live plus seven basis among 18-49 year olds for [...]

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