With football on NBC and the World Series on Fox, Sunday was a tough night for a new show to make its debut. But ABC’s fairy tale series “Once Upon a Time” had a strong premiere, averaging a 3.9 rating…
With Fox airing game two of the World Series and expected to win the night — although numbers were not yet available — the race Thursday night was for second place, which went to CBS by a comfortable margin, TVbytheNumbers.com…
NBC wants to see another season of one of its reality shows, according to EW.com’s Inside TV blog. The network has ordered a second season of "Love in the Wild," the story reports. The first season of the show averaged…
Two rookie dramas are close to receiving full-season orders from CBS, according to The Hollywood Reporter’s The Live Feed blog. Pickups for "Person of Interest" and "Unforgettable" would have the two shows joining freshman comedy "2 Broke Girls" in receiving…
Interest in this year’s World Series doesn’t appear to be quite what it would be with a major-market team like a New York or Boston involved. USA Today reports that overnight ratings for Fox’s Wednesday broadcast of Game 1 between…
With the television season just a few weeks old, 11 shows are "on the bubble" — meaning that they are at risk for cancellation, reports TVGuide.com, which bases its list on the shows’ ratings. CBS’s "Hawaii Five-0" made the list, even…
After falling to third place among cable news channels, MSNBC is tweaking its prime-time lineup, bumping Lawrence O’Donnell from his 8 p.m. time slot to 10 p.m., reports Bill Carter in The New York Times’ Media Decoder blog. "The change…
After shutting down production on a rookie show and moving it to a black hole in the programming schedule, CBS has dealt the comedy another blow, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Stopping short of announcing its cancellation, the network took…
Fox Business Network’s staff was told to stop copying Fox News and to keep its focus on business news, reports Reuters, citing an internal memo from a high-ranking Fox News executive. In the Oct. 5 memo, Fox News Executive Vice…
A&E announced that it is bringing back a drama series for another season, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The procedural "The Glades" will debut for a third season in the summer of 2012, the story reports. The renewal comes as…