I know tomorrow's April Fool's day, so I'm writing this tonight so nobody thinks it's a trick. While most of the Jericho faithful have been very understanding of my writing, but some attacked me as an American Idol, Biggest Loser reality TV loving goon (I don't watch either show).
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Frank Foster wrote a great column over on MediaPost's TV BOARD on Nielsen and how it's time for something new. He concluded the piece, 'The King is Dead. Long Live the King!' with this:
I know it sounds ominous, but a solution inspired by the French exists. Storm the Bastille! If ...
Our Renew or Cancel? posts have been on hiatus since the new fall shows went dormant. Now we've got some data on the spring shows as well, and it's time to look at the numbers and take some guesses on who's coming back next fall and who's going away permanently.
I'm ...
Lifetime's Movie "Wisegal" has 372,000 DVR Viewers
For the week of March 10-16, 2008, Lifetime's Saturday movie Wisegal was the top cable time-shifted show with an increase of 11.3% over its Live audience in its Live+7 viewing audience. It also had the largest time-shifted audience of 372,000 viewers. Neither of those ...
Reaper Has A 32% Increase From Time-Shifting
For the week of March 10-16, the spring season return episode of Reaper's audience increased by 32.0% over the 2.256 million that watched it Live giving it a Live+7 audience of 2.978 million making it the leading broadcast show for % increase in ...
Tuesday's American Idol has a Time-Shifted Audience of 3.7 Million
Tuesday's American Idol had the largest time-shifted (DVR viewed) audience at 3.695 million of any primetime broadcast network show for the week of March 10-16, 2008. Idol was followed by Lost with 3.245 million time-shifted viewers. Rounding out the top ...
[table=1144]The last Sunday of March 2008 is in the books with CBS eking out a victory in total viewers, but conceding dominance in the 18-49 demographic to rival ABC.
I was surprised to learn that the NCAA coverage wasn't going to be in primetime. It would seem CBS believes that ...
UPDATE: Fox has renewed Moment of Truth, Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles, Don't Forget the Lyrics, Moment of Truth and 'Til Death for Fall 2008. Fox has cancelled Back to You, Canterbury's Law and New Amsterdam.
Moving on to Fox, which has quite a few shows with unannounced futures including Terminator: Sarah ...