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BET Bringing Back Reality Show for Second Season

BET has given a renewal to a freshman reality show that has performed well for the cable network. B&C reports that the channel is bringing back "Real Husbands of Hollywood" for a second season. The semi-scripted show stars Kevin Hart,…

Pop Singer Helps ‘SNL’ Reach Season Highs

A pop singer making his fifth appearance as host of “Saturday Night Live” proved he’s still a draw for the show. Deadline.com reports that Saturday’s show, hosted by Justin Timberlake, helped the NBC show reach a season high in the…

‘Idol’ Mired in Third Place on Thursday Night; Tight Race Between Fox and CBS

Fox’s “American Idol” continues to see its viewer numbers slip, and on Thursday night the best it could do was third-highest-rated show of the night behind two CBS comedies, based on Nielsen overnights. TVbytheNumbers.com reports that “Idol” delivered a 3.5…

‘Good Morning America’ Does Something It Hasn’t Done Since Clinton Was President

"Good Morning America" has racked up an achievement it hasn’t done since Bill Clinton was president: The ABC show won the morning show February sweeps for the first time since 1994, reports Deadline.com. The show, which also topped the November…

Ratings Erosion Continues for ‘Idol’ — But Which Broadcast Show Hit an All-Time Low Last Night?

Fox continues to see the ratings erode for its onetime juggernaut “American Idol,” with Wednesday’s installment dipping 5% from last week, based on Nielsen overnights for the key 18-49 demo. But with much of the programming on rival broadcast networks…

Ratings Freefall Continues for NBC Series — and It’s Not Alone

Tuesday was another night of landmark ratings for the broadcast networks — and not in a good way. A number of shows sank to all-time lows in the key 18-49 demo, based on Nielsen overnights. TVbytheNumbers.com reports that NBC’s “Smash”…

How Cable’s Top Programmers Keep Their Channels Ahead of the Pack

A number of the most successful programming chiefs in basic and pay cable recently met to talk about issues including the rapidly changing business landscape for cable, the challenges presented by new models such as Netflix and how they approach…

Broadcast Nets’ Latest Strategy Against Viewer Flight: Order More Pilots

The top five broadcast networks have ordered almost 100 pilot episodes for the start of the 2013-14 television season, up significantly from a year earlier, TV critic Mike Hale writes in The New York Times. And last year, Hale notes,…

NBC’s ‘Today’ Switches Things Up in Ad Sales

As "Today" struggles with losing its morning dominance to ABC’s "Good Morning America," NBCUniversal has tapped a new executive to take over ad sales for the NBC show, reports Jon Lafayette at B&C. David Barrington, a vice president at NBC…

Station GM Spectorsky Comes Clean to B&C About ‘Matlock’ Pre-emption of NBC Prime-Time Programming. He’s Been Using the Show to Do That in the First Quarter for About 10 Years. Purely a Money Play

Earlier today we ran a story from the Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper about the local NBC affiliate there, WKYC-TV, pre-empting part of NBC’s Thrusday prime-time lineup recently to run a 21-year-old episode of "Matlock," starring Andy Griffith. Brooke Spectorsky, the president…