Nielsen tracking shows that kids are spending more time watching TV than they have since 2001, reports The Hollywood Reporter. Kids aged 2-5 spend an average of more than 32 hours a week watching TV, Nielsen said. Kids 6-11 average about 28…
USA Network’s new drama series "White Collar" drew 5.4 million total viewers in its Friday night launch, reports Multichannel News. That premiere was better than some other recent USA successes, including "Burn Notice" and "In Plain Sight." However, "Royal Pains" performed slightly better…
Ventriloquist Jeff Dunham set a Comedy Central record last week, his second, reports The Hollywood Reporter. Some 5.3 million viewers tuned in to the Thursday debut of his show, making it the network’s most-watched series premiere, despite some negative reviews….
CBS’ "Survivor" drew season-high 12.9 million viewers and earned a 4.0 rating among adults 18-49, helping put that network in third place on a night when reruns where slotted from 9-11, according to The Hollywood Reporter. ABC led the night and Fox…
CBS is satisfied with the initial success of "Let’s Make a Deal" since it took over for "Guiding Light," noting that after two weeks, "Deal" is up 7 percent in overall households (1.6/5), which surpasses how the soap had been…
"The Doctors" scored a 46% increase over last year at this time for the week ending Oct. 11, marking the largest year-to-year gain of any show in syndication, according to TVNewsCheck. And despite tough competition in some markets from 12 divisional playoff…
Tuesday continues to be a strong night for CBS with "NCIS" once again leading the pack with a Nielsen 4.7 rating/13 share in adults 18-49 and 20.6 million total viewers, according to B&C. "NCIS: Los Angeles" had its strongest outing…
The numbers are small compared to other major cable networks but “On the Case with Paula Zahn” gave Investigation Discovery its best series debut ever on Oct. 18, B&C reports. Some 465,000 total viewers tuned in to the newsmagazine in…
"Big Bang Theory" executive producer Bill Prady and guest star Wil Wheaton conspired to see how a Twitter message campaign could help last night’s episode of the CBS comedy, in which Wheaton appeared as himself. The answer is quite a…
For the week of Oct. 12, the premiere broadcast of the Seth Rogen/Katherine Heigl film "Knocked Out" led to E! achieving the most-watched week in the network’s history, averaging 467,000 total viewers, up 34% over the benchmark of a year ago….