An A&E series set a ratings record with its premiere Monday. EW.com’s Inside TV reports that the cable channel had 4.6 million viewers tune in for the "Psycho" prequel "Bates Motel." The premiere also drew 2.4 million viewers 18 to…
ABC’s two-hour “Dancing with the Stars” premiere went head-to-head against NBC’s two-hour “Biggest Loser” season finale Monday night, and CBS got caught in the middle. TVbytheNumbers.com reports that CBS’s “2 Broke Girls” and “Mike & Molly” both hit lows in…
PBS’s ratings juggernaut “Downton Abbey” continues to set viewership records. The latest, according to EW.com’s Inside TV, is for the show’s third season, which ranks as PBS’s highest-rated drama of all time. Season three averaged 11.5 million viewers over the…
A reality competition series that was spun off from ABC’s "The Bachelor" won’t be returning to the network this summer, according to The Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed. Executive producer Mike Fleiss tweeted the news about the spinoff “The Bachelor Pad”…
Sunday’s finale of the second season of HBO’s comedy series "Girls" declined significantly from last season — almost 40% — but the number might be misleading, writes Joe Flint in the Los Angeles Times’ Show Tracker. While 632,000 people watched…
A cable program was the No. 1 show on television Sunday night, continuing an impressive run for the cable channel History. The channel reported a turnout of 10.9 million total viewers for the third installment of “The Bible.” The program…
Producer and distributor Debmar-Mercury said it will extend production through the summer on the fourth season of the daytime talk show "The Wendy Williams Show" after a successful February sweeps, according to The Hollywood Reporter. An additional two months of…
The latest report on the state of local TV news by the well-respected non-partisan Pew Research Center issues this warning: “With younger people tuning out local newscasts, there is growing concern that local TV news may be facing some of…
On a night when not a single show on the big four broadcast networks showed an improvement in the ratings, based on Nielsen overnights for the key 18-49 demo, CBS eked out a narrow win for the night. TVbytheNumbers.com reports…
"The Tonight Show" host Jay Leno is reportedly in the doghouse with NBC’s top entertainment executive. Writing in The New York Times’ Media Decoder, Bill Carter reports that Leno got himself in trouble with Robert Greenblatt by making jokes about…