The premiere of the second season of "Hot in Cleveland" sizzled on Wednesday night, with almost 3 million viewers tuning into the return of TV Land’s first original sitcom, reports the Los Angeles Times’ Show Tracker blog. The show performed…
Fox’s "American Idol" returned last night with its new faces at the judging table and big numbers in the Nielsen ratings, but not as big as last season, reports TVbytheNumbers.com. The two-hour “Idol” premiere was off 18% from last year’s…
It appears Food Network and sister network HGTV are losing their appeal to their core female audiences, as both networks had their first major ratings falloff at the end of 2010, writes the New York Post’s Claire Atkinson. Food Network…
Helped by a guest appearance by TV legend Bob Newhart, CBS’s "NCIS" was the top-rated show Tuesday night, and the Eye Network notched a big win for the night, reports TVbytheNumbers.com. CBS finished the night with a 3.2 average rating in the…
CNN announced that its new prime-time talk show “Piers Morgan Tonight” beat its main competition, Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” in Nielsen Fast Nationals for Tuesday in the key 25-54 demo. The program also improved on its Monday night premiere numbers…
The debut of CNN’s "Piers Morgan Tonight" drew 2.1 million viewers on Monday evening, more than triple the network’s average audience from the end of 2010, when "Larry King Live" drew to a close, reports the New York Times’ Media…
MTV’s latest series, which the network promoted widely, drew the most P12-34 viewers for a show launch in the network’s history, MTV said, citing Nielsen data. The show is the scripted teend draama series "Skins," based on the controversial U.K. hit…
E! scored its best performance in the past four years of covering all the activities on the red carpet at the Golden Globes, according to Nielsen data. According to a release put out by E!, "E! averaged over 1.6M total…
CBS got help from its huge afternoon NFL showdown between the New York Jets and New England Patriots, which ran over into prime time and gave the Eye Network an outright win Sunday Night even though NBC scored well with…
The CBS Sunday afternoon telecast of the AFC divisional playoff game, in which the New York Jets upset the New England Patriots 28-21, pulled in big ratings, the network reported. The broadcast drew an average overnight household rating of 26.2…