Kate Gosselin doesn’t want to be the sole breadwinner for her eight children, reports Rob Shuter on Popeater.com. According to the article, Shuter says sources tell him that Gosselin wants her ex-husband, Jon Gosselin, to find a job and start…
May didn’t come up roses for Larry King, whose "Larry King Live" on CNN tallied its lowest monthly viewer total in almost 20 years, reports the New York Times’ Media Decoder blog. The program drew an average of 653,000 viewers…
NBC scored well in the Nielsen numbers for Monday night programming with the airing of the second game of the Stanley Cup hockey finals, pitting the Chicago Blackhawks against the Philadelphia Flyers, reports TVbythenumbers. The 2.4 rating in teh 18-49-year-old demo from…
In a most provocative Open Mic essay, guest blogger Judy Pollack, the managing editor of our sibling publication, Advertising Age, and who is someone who has loved "American Idol" for years, writes a memo to the producers about what’s wrong with the…
According to the New York Times’ Arts Beat blog, "The night’s average of 24.2 million viewers [for Wednesday’s ‘American Idol’ finale] is down about 18 percent from last year’s finale, when Kris Allen won the contest. The audience for the…
CBS will be the most-watched U.S. television network in primetime during the 2009-10 season, which ends this week, giving it seven wins in eight years, reports Reuters. Fox will rank as the network that drew the most viewers in the 18- to…
It turns out that 88-year old Betty White is more popular that originally reported, as new ratings for her performance on NBC’s "Saturday Night Live" indicate she drew nearly 3 million additional viewers through digital video recorders, the New York…
After eight seasons, the innovative "24," wherein each hour-long episode actually took place during an hour of real time, had its series ending 2-hour finale on Monday night, May 24. The show, on Fox, averaged "a 2.7 with adults 18-49 from 8p-10p and 8.85 million…
"Sesame Street" has topped its highest ratings in its core demographic age group since 2007 after the program freshened up its look with a new format and look, the Hollywood Reporter reports. For the show’s 40th season, which began in…
A two-hour season finale of "Grey’s Anatomy" was a ratings winner for ABC Thursday night, averaging a 5.35 in the 18-49 demo, reports TVbythenumbers.com. At 8 p.m., Fox’s "Bones" season finale averaged a 2.8, over NBC’s "Community" finale with a 2.0…