It was a bit of a slow week of television. Football on FOX sent all the other networks scrambling on Sunday. Then Obama took over all the channels on Wednesday. Add in an oddly quiet Thursday and we had three pretty weak nights of numbers. Not to worry though, there was still the occasional cause [...]
FOX has been waiting all season to drop the big hammer, and the time has finally come. Idol returned last week, and the ripple effect of adding over 20 million viewers to Tuesday and Wednesday was felt by a number of shows, but not all of them. Despite Idol adding some 24 million viewers to [...]
Yeah, yeah, yeah, the monster that is American Idol is back on television. After watching a few seasons of the glorified talent popularity contest, I gave up on it last year and decided to throw my viewing power behind Reaper. Unfortunately we all know how that story ended, with the cancellation of Reaper (and I [...]
At least, that’s the delusion that Angela Bromstad (President, Primetime Entertainment, NBC and Universal Media Studios) seems to be operating under. Asked about the show at NBC’s TCA presentation, Bromstad said, “”It’s been performing very strongly in its 8 p.m. time slot.” I would argue that finishing in fourth place every week, and losing to [...]
Better Off Ted – The Complete First Season
The good: you get all of the episodes of the first season of this great comedy series, which is now in its second season (hopefully not its last, though it is in serious danger). The bad: that’s pretty much all you get. There are no special features whatsoever, [...]
It was another very dark week of television with only two and a half hours of new scripted programming. And even without any new competition, only one half hour of that could be considered remotely successful. Better Off Ted (2.69m/1)was the first new show of the week on Tuesday, and it still landed in third [...]
What the heck were you watching last week? More than likely, it wasn’t network television. Faced with the coming holiday shenanigans of their viewers, all of the broadcast networks threw in the towel. In fact, there were only three new hours of scripted television last week. Even worse, all three of those hours could be [...]
