FOX formally announced its 2012-13 schedule Monday, confirming rumors that “Glee” is moving to a new night. After two seasons of anchoring Tuesdays, “Glee” will return to its season one roots of pairing with a music competition series. Beginning this fall, it will move to Thursdays at 9PM, where it will lead out of...
An oddly-scheduled 2011-12 season has resulted in many popular series having finales earlier than usual, but FOX’s “Glee” is not one of them. Its third season will run until May 22, the date that would have typically been expected for a year-long television series. That means this week’s episode is not the finale; it...
The lengthy “American Idol” season has nearly reached its culmination, and as is tradition, the remaining three contestants paid a visit to their hometowns this past weekend. With plenty of television time to fill this week, expect plenty of footage of Joshua Ledet, Phillip Phillips and Jessica Sanchez embarking on their homecomings. But, for...
People who claim television is dead as a medium are asked to look at viewership data for the Super Bowl, Grammys and even the “Two and a Half Men” season premiere. People who make the same claim about cinema should pay attention to “The Avengers,” which set a box office record for its second...
NBC has a laundry list of shows on the docket for midseason launches, but its fall presence is about comedy. Of the six new shows confirmed for NBC’s 2012-13 fall schedule, four are half-hour “laffers.” Hoping to get the jump on publicity for its new lineup, NBC is again kickstarting upfront week with a...
Upfront week does not officially begin until Monday, but NBC has gotten the early jump by revealing its new fall schedule and sharing promotional content this weekend. A number of new series join veterans like “The Office,” “Law & Order: SVU” and “Parks & Recreation” on the fall lineup, but two with ample buzz...
Going into upfront season, we had long since known that flagship “CSI” was coming back for another season. That left the two spin-offs: “CSI: NY” and “CSI: Miami,” both of which have spent the past several seasons on the bubble. One of them will not be coming back, and based on gossip from previous...
NBC is not yet fearing “Voice” fatigue–it announced Sunday that it will air a third cycle of the popular music competition series this fall. “The Voice” will remain in its Monday anchor slot from 8-10PM, where it spent much of the spring at the top of the ratings heap. With “Smash” on the bench...
ABC was not as cruel as it could have been this season, opting to renew nearly all of its bubble series. Shows like “Happy Endings,” “Don’t Trust the B in Apartment 23,” “Body of Proof” and “Last Man Standing” will all be back next year, as the alphabet network decided that some shaky ratings...
A bogus inside “rumor” going around had suggested The CW was pulling the plug on its sophomore drama “Nikita.” Nope. The CW officially ordered a full third season of the female-fronted drama series, Friday, putting it in the same boat as its nightly companion “Supernatural,” which had already been renewed (along with “90210″ and...
In what was poised to be a blow to those confident that adults 18-49 numbers are what define success at the broadcast television networks, rumors late this week said NBC was planning to renew “Harry’s Law.” The move would have shocked insiders; though “Harry’s Law” is routinely the network’s most-watched scripted shows, it is...
Even though its Thursday lineup, once known as “Must See TV,” has completely lost its ratings dominance, it remains a decent source of laughs for critics and a passionate, albeit small mass of fans. All five of its regular Thursday series will be back next year. Following up on shortened-order renewals for “30 Rock”...
It has been a long, low-rated season for “American Idol.” It has been one that has produced some of the show’s best performances of all-time, but in a classic “tree in the forest” scenario, never generated much accompanying buzz. Still, there is always something special about the “American Idol” finals, and we are now...
None of FOX’s new dramas emerged as a ratings winner this season, and as such, there was no question that at least some would land on the chopping block ahead of the 2012-13 scheduling announcement. News broke Wednesday that two dramas indeed ended up on the wrong end of the ax. FOX has officially...
While series like “Gossip Girl” and “90210″ were never forces in the television ratings game, they had previously attracted enough eyeballs to at least garner some buzz among young audlt viewers. Recently, even that is no longer the case–ratings have grown abysmal, and buzz has grown non-existent. So miniscule in comparison to ratings for...
At least some of NBC’s 2012-13 lineup will include offerings from familiar faces; the Peacock handed out three series orders Monday, all of which involve an established name. On the dramatic side, NBC picked up “Lost” creator JJ Abrams’ “Revolution,” which centers on a group surviving in a world without energy. That drama pickup...
Though final numbers will not be available until Monday, one thing is already certain–”The Avengers” set the all-time opening weekend box office record by a comfortable margin. Estimates say the anticipated superhero film garnered $200.3 million at the box office this weekend, which beats the “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2″ record...
So much for quality fights being a ticket to great numbers on FOX. Saturday’s UFC on FOX 3, which featured a low-profile main-event matchup between Nate Diaz and Jim Miller, garnered just a 1.0 adults 18-49 rating with 2.3 million viewers. There is a chance for a slight upward adjustment once the live west...
Readers were cautioned not to rule out “The Avengers” based on its disappointing midnight grosses, and that caution appears to have been justified. “The Avengers” earned $80.5 million at the day-long box office on Friday, and it now stands a legitimate chance of setting the all-time opening weekend record. Sources are now forecasting a...
When a film’s excitement reaches a certain magnitude, it becomes nearly impossible to predict the weekend box office. Sure, everybody knows “The Avengers” is going to do monster numbers at the domestic box office this weekend, but how well can anyone truly narrow down that “monster” label? No one has projected less than $130-140...
