CBS has had enough of a popular television movie series even though it has attracted decent audience numbers, Variety reports. Among the problems: The audiences are too old. The series is the “Jesse Stone” movies, starring Tom Selleck. The most…
The daytime talk landscape appears to be in good shape after the departure of the syndicated mainstay “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” Variety reports. The programs that took over many of the former “Oprah” afternoon time slots — Sony’s “Dr. Oz”…
ABC quietly rolled out two new series Thursday night — the network may not have intended to do it quietly, but that’s how it turned out, if the Nielsen overnights are an indication. The network’s new singing competition “Duets” had…
One night of the week is becoming the island of hope for niche TV shows. With the top broadcast networks moving little-watched shows to Fridays, the evening is becoming a testing ground for niche programs to see whether they can…
The 2011-12 television season officially wrapped up Wednesday night, with CBS continuing its strategy of airing repeat programming and Fox coasting to an easy win for the night behind the “American Idol” finale, TVbytheNumbers.com reports. According to Nielsen overnights, the…
One broadcast network ended the 2011-12 season with a number of network records, including more nights at No. 1 in the key 18-49 demo than ever before. The network is the Spanish-language broadcaster Univision. Univision Communications reported that its flagship…
With the end of the 2011-12 television season Wednesday night, the numbers are coming in for the season as a whole. CBS emerged — for the ninth time in 10 years — as the most-watched network, The Washington Post reports….
The return of a vintage TV game show format has brought a ratings record for a cable channel, Deadline.com reports. The new show is “Hip Hop Squares,” based on "Hollywood Squares," the game show with the tic-tac-toe format that ran…
Tuesday was a big night for performance competitions, with Fox airing this season’s performance finale of “American Idol” while ABC put up the two-hour performance finale of “Dancing with the Stars” and NBC banked on its “America’s Got Talent” franchise….
With tonight marking the last official night of the 2011-12 television season, “NBC’s long ratings nightmare may be over,” the Los Angeles Times reports. “NBC Entertainment Chairman Bob Greenblatt is poised to end his first full TV season on the…