NBC’s “Sunday Night Football” on the first Sunday of the NFL’s regular season had a huge viewer turnout, according to early overnight ratings reported by TVbytheNumbers.com. With numbers due to be adjusted because of the nature of live sports, the…
President Barack Obama’s jobs speech Thursday to a joint session of Congress outdrew the NFL kickoff that followed, reports the Los Angeles Times’ Top of the Ticket blog. The speech drew 31.4 million viewers, a much lower draw than his…
The opening game of the NFL regular season, featuring a showdown between the past two Super Bowl champions in the Green Bay Packers and New Orleans Saints, was a ratings blockbuster for NBC Thursday night, reports TVbytheNumbers.com. The numbers are…
Lifetime has decided not to order a new season of one of its series, Deadline.com reports. The show is the freshman drama “The Protector,” which stars Ally Walker as a single mother who is also a Los Angeles Police Department…
If there were any doubt whether FX has a hit on its hands with one of its critically acclaimed dramas, Tuesday night’s fourth-season premiere should put it to rest. The 90-minute rollout of “Sons of Anarchy” pulled in a series-record…
The highest-rated broadcast network on Labor Day in total viewers and among people 18 to 49 years old was the Spanish-language network Univision, as viewing was generally low among English-language broadcasters, reports The New York Times’ ArtsBeat blog. Univision averaged…
Hurricane Irene and its resulting power outages claimed the Nielsen television ratings as a victim in some markets, reports B&C. With power outages throughout the East Coast, putting many Nielsen homes out of commission, local ratings for Hartford-New Haven and…
Bravo has renewed a reality show, with a new season to be filmed starting in the next couple of months for broadcast in 2012, New York Magazine reports. The show is "Pregnant in Heels," about Rosie Pope, the ultimate maternity…
VH1 has confirmed that it won’t be picking up another season of one of its reality series, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The show is Audrina Patridge’s series "Audrina," a spinoff of MTV’s “The Hills.” “Audrina” has struggled to find…
Even after being downgraded to a tropical storm, Hurricane Irene delivered record ratings for the Weather Channel, with Saturday’s numbers representing the network’s highest-rated entire day in its 29-year history, reports The New York Times’ Media Decoder blog. One 15-minute…