The show that is the most-watched cable series of 2012 among children between 2 and 5 has received a renewal, B&C reports. Disney Junior announced that it will bring back “Doc McStuffins” for a second season. The animated series focuses…
Fox rode strong premieres for its two Monday night food shows to a ratings win for prime time Monday night, according to Nielsen overnights, TVbytheNumbers.com reports. “MasterChef” bowed with a 2.3 average rating in the key 18-49 demo, up five-tenths…
A&E set a network record with the debut of its new Western-style drama series, The New York Times’ Media Decoder reports. Sunday’s premiere of "Longmire" attracted 4.1 million viewers, more than any new drama series on cable TV this season,…
Disney Channel has announced it is bringing back a comedy series for another season, Deadline.com reports. Returning for season three will be "Shake It Up," the dance-oriented girl comedy show. The tween sitcom premiered in November 2010 and was the…
HBO’s “Game of Thrones” set a series high for its season-two finale, which aired Sunday night, Deadline.com reports. The telecast drew 4.2 million viewers — up a whopping 38% from the first-season finale. Another 910,000 viewers turned up for the…
Oprah Winfrey is bringing back a feature that was one of the mainstays of her long-running syndicated daytime talk show, the New York Post reports. Winfrey is reviving the Oprah Book Club. The first book in what Winfrey is calling…
Viacom, the owner of cable networks including MTV, Nickelodeon and Comedy Central, has completed between 50% and 75% of its upfront advertising sales after seeing a surge in activity, reports Brian Steinberg in Advertising Age. Viacom has sacrificed some pricing…
Two networks put up all-repeat lineups in prime time Thursday — and one of them came away with a win for the night, TVbytheNumbers.com reports. CBS pulled off the win, according to Nielsen overnights, but it was with a spectacularly…
Turner Broadcasting CEO Phil Kent said he’s "very unhappy" with CNN’s prime-time ratings, and described some of the damage as "self-inflicted," reports Jon Lafayette at B&C. He also blamed part of the ratings slide on environmental causes, the story adds….
The third installment of the three-night “Hatfields & McCoys” miniseries on History broke its own all-time viewership record set two nights earlier. The cable channel reported that Wednesday’s finale delivered 14.3 million total viewers for its initial airing, topping the…