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Ratings Rat Race: CBS’ ‘CSI: NY’ Hits Low, NBC’s Family Pic Tanks; Where’s ‘Grimm’?

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Saturday December 3, 2011 @ 10:32am PSTTags: 20/20, A GIfted Man, Blue Bloods, CSI: NY, Dateline, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Grimm, Nikita, Ratings Rat Race, Supernatural, TV Ratings, Univision
Nellie Andreeva

Last time we checked on Grimm the week before the Thanksgiving holiday, the rookie NBC drama seemed to be bottoming out, holding steady week-to-week to stop its post-premiere slide. But then the fairytale procedural was benched once for the holiday, which is understandable, and then again last night for original movie Game Of Your Life, which is not so much. Last night, the latest of the Procter & Gamble/Walmart-funded family movies that air on NBC as time buys drew a meager 0.5/2 in adults 18-49 from 8-10 PM and 2.2 million viewers. It is tied as the lowest-rated such movie to air on NBC on Friday or Saturday, in- or off-season. The first one, Secrets Of The Mountain, averaged a respectable 1.3/5 in 18-49 and 7.8 million viewers in April 2010. The Jensen Project posted a 0.9 and 3.9 million in summer 2010. Both aired on Friday. Field Of Vision (0.5/2, 2.7 million) and A Walk In My Shoes (1.3/4, 4.9 million) aired on Saturday this past summer. To keep airing those movies, NBC no doubt is making money on the time buys (and let’s face it, it’s not that NBC has cupboards stacked with originals after a brutal fall riddled with cancellations). But I’d question the scheduling choice for Game Of Your Life, which extends unnecessarily the hiatus of a freshman series so early into its run. With Dateline (1.0/3, 4 million) at 10 PM, NBC finished fourth for the night in 18-49. READ MORE »

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RATINGS RAT RACE: ‘Blue Bloods’ Rises, ‘Gifted Man’ & ‘Grimm’ Inch Up, ‘Fringe’ Flat

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Saturday November 19, 2011 @ 9:53am PSTTags: A GIfted Man, Blue Bloods, Chuck, CSI:NY, Dateline, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Fringe, Grimm, Kitchen Nightmares, Nikita, Supernatural
Nellie Andreeva

On the heels of getting a three-episode back order this week, CBS’ freshman drama A Gifted Man (1.3/4 in adults 18-49, 8.2 million viewers) posted a ratings uptick of a tenth of a point in 18-49. Since premiering with a … Read More »

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RATINGS RAT RACE: ‘Fringe’ Hits Series Low, ‘Grimm’ Slips Again

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Saturday November 12, 2011 @ 2:09pm PSTTags: 20/20, A GIfted Man, Blue Bloods, Chuck, CSI: NY, Dateline, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Fringe, Grimm, Kitchen Nightmares, Nikita, Ratings Rat Race, Supernatural, TV Ratings
Nellie Andreeva

The fast nationals for last night were delayed by Nielsen this morning … or was it sabotage at the hands of Fringe fans trying to delay the bad ratings news? The Fox sci-fi drama (1.1/3 in adults 18-49) was down 15% from last week to post a series low. That was despite its lead-in, Kitchen Nightmares (1.6/5), rising a tenth. You can’t blame slot rival NBC’s Grimm (1.5/5) for Fringe‘s misfortune — the fairytale-themed NBC drama continued its slide following the strong premiere three weeks ago, down 17% from last Friday. At 8 PM, NBC’s Chuck (0.9/3) was up a tenth from last week’s fast national, flat with the final. Dateline (1.4/4, 4.9 million) was up 17%. CBS’ A Gifted Man (1.2/4, 8.3 million) matched its soft performance from the past few weeks. CSI: NY (1.7/5, 10.2 million) was up a tenth and beat Grimm in the demo after losing to the rookie in their first face-off last week. Blue Bloods (1.7/5, 11.2 million) was down 19% in 18-49 from last Friday’s season high. CBS (1.5/5, 9.9 million) won the night in both 18-49 and total viewers. It edged in the demo Fox (1.4/4, 3.5 million), which finished second; NBC (1.3/4, 4.4 million); and ABC (1.1/3, 5.2 million). Read More »

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RATINGS RAT RACE: ‘Grimm’ Slips, ‘Blue Bloods’ Hits Season Highs, ‘Chuck’ Slides

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Saturday November 5, 2011 @ 10:06am PDTTags: 20/20, A GIfted Man, Blue Bloods, Chuck, CSI: NY, Dateline, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Fringe, Grimm, Kitchen Nightmares, Nikita, Ratings Rat Race, Supernatural, TV Ratings
Nellie Andreeva

Following its surprisingly strong debut against Game 7 of the World Series last week, NBC’s new fairytale-themed drama Grimm (1.8/5 in 18-49, 5.92 million viewers) dropped a modest 14% in its second airing. It won the 9 PM hour in the demo and ranked as the second-highest-rated program of the night behind the CBS drama Blue Bloods. Things looked much gloomier for NBC’s departing dramedy Chuck (0.8/3, 3.1 million), which was the lowest-rated and least-watched program on the Big 4 — down 20% in the demo from its season premiere last week for a new series low. Dateline (1.2/4, 4.1 million) closed out the night for NBC, down a tenth from last week. Read More »

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RATINGS RAT RACE: ABC Ties CBS In Adults 18-49, ’20/20′ Tops Night

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Saturday October 22, 2011 @ 10:02am PDTTags: 20/20, A GIfted Man, Blue Bloods, CSI: NY, Dateline, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Kitchen Nightmares, Nikita, Ratings Rat Race, Supernatural, TV Ratings
Nellie Andreeva

Just like it happened the same time last year, once ABC dropped repeats on Friday to go for a lineup of reality series and newsmagzines, it became an instant formidable rival to CBS for the top spot on the night among adults 18-49. Last year, it started with a tie before ABC posted a couple of outright victories in the demo. And last night, in its first outing with an all-original Friday lineup, ABC (1.6/5 in 18-49, 6.2 million) tied CBS in 18-49. ABC also boasted the highest-rated program of the night among adults 18-49: newsmagazine 20/20 (2.1/6, 7.6 million total viewers), which was up a whopping 75% in the demo from last week with headline-grabbing interviews featuring the daughter-in-law of convicted Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff and Nick Cannon, Mariah Carey and their twins. 20/20 also was helped by a stronger lead-in from Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. The veteran reality series started its Friday debut slow, posting a 1.1/4 in 18-49 at 8 PM. But its second episode at 9 PM (1.7/5) picked up significantly, off only by two tenths from the series’ most recent airing on Sunday last week. Read More »

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RATINGS RAT RACE: CBS Wins But ‘Blue Bloods’ Drops

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Saturday October 15, 2011 @ 9:56am PDTTags: 20/20, A GIfted Man, Blue Bloods, CSI: NY, Dateline, Fringe, Kitchen Nightmares, Last Man Standing, Ratings Rat Race, TV Ratings, Univision
Nellie Andreeva

Another Friday with mostly minor adjustments of a tenth of a 18-49 rating. CBS’ 10 PM drama Blue Bloods (1.7/5 in adults 18-49, 10.9 million viewers) posted the biggest drop from last week — two tenths in 18-49. It … Read More »

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RATINGS RAT RACE: ‘Kitchen Nightmares’ Steady As All Friday Scripted Series Drop

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Saturday October 1, 2011 @ 9:59am PDTTags: 20/20, A GIfted Man, Blue Bloods, CSI:NY, Dateline, Fringe, Kitchen Nightmares, Nikita, Ratings Rat Race, Supernatural, TV Ratings
Nellie Andreeva

Last November, when ABC beat CBS’ scripted Friday lineup multiple times in adults 18-49 with a mix of reality shows and newsmagazines, I wondered whether the concept of putting scripted series on Friday was doomed. Well, looking at the numbers last night, it certainly seems that way, particularly if you program for the advertiser-friendly adults 18-49 set. Fox’s reality series Kitchen Nightmares (1.6/6 in adults 18-49, 4 million viewers) and ABC’s newsmagazine 20/20 (1.2/4, 4 million) were the only programs on the Big 4 networks last night not to drop from premiere week in adults 18-49, with all scripted shows down. While this may not be particularly disconcerting for CBS — which is putting an older-skewing fare on the night that can pack 10 million viewers despite low 18-49 numbers — it has got to be alarming for NBC, which is about to unspool two younger-skewing shows on the night, Chuck and Grimm.

Following Kitchen Nightmares, Fringe (1.2/4, 3.1 million viewers) was down 20% from its low season premiere last week. Granted the series grows some 50% in DVR viewing, this is still a very low base to start from, making it unlikely that the sci-fi drama can cheat cancellation one more time.

Like Fringe, CBS’ rookie A Gifted Man (1.2/4, 8.1 million) is fading, down 14% from its debut last week and tied with Fringe and 20/20 as the lowest-rated first-run program last night. CSI: NY (1.6/5, 10 million) was down 11% from last week in 18-49, while Blue Bloods (1.8/6, 11.2 million) was down 10% but still ranked as the highest-rated program on Friday in both 18-49 and total viewers. Read More »

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Ratings Rat Race: Modest Start For ‘Gifted Man’; ‘Fringe’, ‘CSI: NY’, ‘Supernatural’ Down

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Saturday September 24, 2011 @ 10:21am PDTTags: 20/20, A GIfted Man, Blue Bloods, CSI: NY, Dateline, Fringe, Kitchen Nightmares, Nikita, Ratings Rat Race, Revenge, Supernatural, TV Ratings
Nellie Andreeva

Maybe Ghost Whisperer was the only scripted series able to get a demo number at 8 PM on Fridays. CBS is trying a second consecutive drama with ghosts in the slot following the cancellation of Ghost Whisperer, to similar modest results. In its premiere last night, A Gifted Man (1.4/5) matched the season debut in the hour of Medium last year. (Medium was canceled a couple of months later.) That was down 39% from the season opener of Ghost Whisperer the year before. In total viewers, Gifted Man represented a vast improvement vs. last fall with 9.3 million viewers vs. 6.1 million for Medium. That was CBS’ largest audience in the hour since May 2009 when the network had Ghost Whisperer on. At 9 PM, veteran CSI: NY (1.8/6, 10.7 million) was down 10% in the demo from last season’s debut in the slot but finished No. 1 in the hour. 10 PM anchor Blue Bloods (2.0/6, 11.8 million) was down 9% in the demo from its series premiere last fall. It tied NBC’s Dateline as the highest-rated program of the night in 18-49 and was tops in viewers. CBS (1.7/5, 10.6 million) edged the competition to finish No. 1 for the night in 18-49 and total viewers. Read More »

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EMMYS: 2011 Drama Series Overview

By NELLIE ANDREEVA AND MICHAEL AUSIELLO | Friday June 24, 2011 @ 11:39am PDTTags: 2011 Emmy Contenders, Big Love, Blue Bloods, Boardwalk Empire, Covert Affairs, Dexter, Emmy Outstanding Drama Series, Friday Night Lights, Fringe, Game of Thrones, Grey's Anatomy, House, Justified, Mad Men, Men of a Certain Age, Parenthood, Shameless, Sons of Anarchy, Southland, Spartacus: Gods of the Arena, The Closer, The Good Wife, The Killing, The Walking Dead, White Collar

This year’s Emmy race for Outstanding Drama Series will continue cable’s dominance in this most prestigious category. Cable claimed 10 of the 13 nomination spots over the past two years, and 13 of 19 since 2008. By contrast, cable earned a mere nine nods combined in the seven years between 2001 and 2007 when the networks still ruled. The shift from broadcast is so extreme in 2011 that CBS’ The Good Wife is considered the only network series with a solid shot to earn its second nomination in as many years. (Though not in that league, NBC/DirecTV’s Friday Night Lights, NBC’s Parenthood, and CBS’ Blue Bloods deserve consideration while ABC has entered a rebuilding phase.) The sad reality is that the broadcast networks, which just signed a new eight-year deal with the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences to carry the Emmys, are facing a possible first-ever shutout from the top drama series category. That’s because of the continuing strength and ambition of programming on cable — in particular, HBO in a return to form, and AMC still on a roll.

HBO’s Prohibition-era hourlong Boardwalk Empire drew the most critical attention this Emmy season because of its pedigreed producer team, headed by the legendary Martin Scorsese and creator/showrunner Terence Winter, a Sopranos alum. How interesting that the pay channel’s expensive serial will compete against another period drama from that other Sopranos alum Matt Weiner. AMC’s first acclaimed original series, Mad Men, has won this category three years running and is bidding this year to be the first series to win four in a row since NBC’s The West Wing (2000- 2003). Though the frontrunner, Mad Men could be hurt by a long hiatus.

AMC has seized the mantle from HBO as TV’s preeminent quality-drama purveyor with a pair of newcomers that could crack the series field this year: the zombie-themed hour The Walking Dead, and the dark murder mystery The Killing. Even though two-time category nominee Breaking Bad is not eligible for 2011, AMC could still land three nods, becoming the first network in 10 years to do so in this category, after NBC scored the hat trick in 2001 with The West Wing, ER, and Law & Order. No cable network has ever managed the feat to date.

And then there’s Showtime, whose Dexter is in the running for its fourth consecutive Outstanding Drama nomination, along with first-season Shameless. FX is pushing its increasingly buzzed-about Western, Justified and, to a lesser extent, Sons Of Anarchy. TNT wants attention for The Closer, Men Of A Certain Age, and Southland. USA is pressing Covert Affairs and White Collar. Here’s our assessment of the chances for this year’s drama series in alphabetical order: Read More »

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Michael Pressman Joins CBS’ ‘Blue Bloods’ As Co-EP

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday June 2, 2011 @ 5:41pm PDTTags: Blue Bloods, CBS, CBS TV Studios
Nellie Andreeva

More fresh blood is being added to CBS’ Blue Bloods as the cop/family drama is undergoing creative tweaks going into its second season. Veteran series director-producer Michael Pressman has joined the CBS TV Studios-produced series as co-executive producer/director. He directed two episodes of Blue Bloods‘ first season and has a … Read More »

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Upfront: Live-Blogging CBS Presentation

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday May 18, 2011 @ 1:17pm PDTTags: Blue Bloods, CBS, CBS Upfront Presentation, Leslie Moonves, Scott Pelley
Nellie Andreeva

CBS Unveils 2011-2012 Schedule: ‘Person Of Interest’ Takes Over Thursday 9 PM Slot

Opening the CBS upfront presentation at Carnegie Hall today was a video of David Letterman, Steve Martin and Paul Shaffer rehearsing a music tune, “It’s gonna be a big, big season…” until CBS CEO Leslie Moonves walks in and tells them that their number has been cut. But CBS went the extra mile this year with a second video with the characters from freshman drama Blue Bloods. The CBS fall schedule had been stolen, and the entire Reagan clan is summoned to track it down. The hooded thief is apprehended and roughened up before his identity is revealed: It’s Regis Philbin. “I want to be on the schedule,” he said. “I’m in the apartment all day; Joy is driving me crazy.” After an elaborate pursuit enhanced with classic movie car chases, Tom Selleck personally delivers the schedule to Moonves on the stage of Carnegie Hall.

No Two and a Half Men jokes in Moonves’ intro, only a subtle reference with the opening line: “I’ll be here for a very short time: tops 2.5 minutes.” The other more memorable line in his speech: “At CBS, we don’t rebuild, we reload.” Read More »

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Ed Zuckerman To Run CBS’ ‘Blue Bloods’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday May 17, 2011 @ 12:05pm PDTTags: Blue Bloods, CBS, showrunner
Nellie Andreeva

Law & Order veteran Ed Zuckerman, who most recently ran ABC’s legal drama The Whole Truth last season, has been tapped as the new showrunner on CBS’  Blue Bloods, which has not been officially renewed but is coming back next … Read More »

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CBS Renews ‘CSI: NY’, Cancels ‘Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday May 17, 2011 @ 8:38am PDTTags: Blue Bloods, CSI: NY, The Good Wife
Nellie Andreeva

In the battle of the bubble crime-drama spinoffs, veteran CSI: NY won a reprieve with a last-minute renewal, while freshman Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior is being canceled after a short midseason run. I hear the size of the order … Read More »

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RATINGS RAT RACE: ‘Smallville’ Up In Series Finale, ‘Flashpoint’ Rises In Week 2

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Saturday May 14, 2011 @ 9:25am PDTTags: Blue Bloods, CSI: NY, Flashpoint, Kitchen Nightmares, Ratings Rat Race, Shark Tank, Smallville, TV Ratings
Nellie Andreeva

CW’s veteran Smallville had a solid though not spectacular end of its 10-year run last night. The two-hour series finale of the young Superman series drew 3 million viewers, 1.3/5 in 18-49 and 1.2/4 in 18-34. That was up 50% … Read More »

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RATINGS RAT RACE: ‘Fringe’ Down In Finale, ‘Flashpoint’ Low In Return

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Saturday May 7, 2011 @ 9:32am PDTTags: 20/20, Blue Bloods, CSI: NY, Dateline, Flashpoint, Friday Night Lights, Fringe, Kitchen Nightmares, Ratings Rat Race, Shark Tank, Smallville, Supernatural, TV Ratings
Nellie Andreeva

Fringe ended its third season last night in a ho-hum fashion. (Knowing their show is coming back, fans probably didn’t feel any urgency to see the finale right away.) It drew a 1.2 rating in 18-49, down a tenth from … Read More »

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RATINGS RATE RACE: CBS Wins Night Dominated By Royal Wedding Specials

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Saturday April 30, 2011 @ 11:15am PDTTags: Blue Bloods, CSI: NY, Friday Night Lights, Fringe, Kitchen Nightmares, Ratings Rat Race, Shark Tank, Smallville, Supernatural, TV Ratings
Nellie Andreeva

Will this further shake CBS’ commitment to scripted programming on Fridays? Last night, a Royal Wedding special at 8 PM (1.7/6, 8.6 million) delivered a rare decisive No. 1 finish in the hour for the network among 18-49 and outranked the network’s scripted entries in the slot this season – … Read More »

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RATINGS RAT RACE: ‘Chaos’ Drops In Week 2, Drags CBS Down To No. 2 In Adults 18-49

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Saturday April 9, 2011 @ 9:35am PDTTags: ABC Ratings, Blue Bloods, CBS Ratings, CSI:NY, Kitchen Nightmares, NBC Ratings, Ratings Rat Race, Shark Tank, TV, TV Ratings
Nellie Andreeva

It got ugly for CBS last night when, in its second outing, midseason dramedy Chaos (0.9/3 in 18-49, 5.6 million viewers) fell 18% from its underwhelming premiere to finish a distant fourth at 8 PM in adults 18-49, behind a Kitchen Nightmares repeat on Fox. Chaos also pushed down CSI: NY (1.6/5, off 11%, 9.4 million) and Blue Bloods (1.5/4, down 12%, 10.3 million). As a result, despite Shark Tank (1.2/4) slipping 9% from last week, ABC’s unscripted lineup (1.4/4, 4.7 million) edged CBS’ scripted series (1.3/4, 8.5 million) in 18-49 for No. 1. Read More »

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RATINGS RAT RACE: Slow Start For ‘Chaos’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Saturday April 2, 2011 @ 9:32am PDTTags: 20/20, Blue Bloods, Chaos, CSI: NY, Dateline, Ratings Rat Race, Shark Tank, Who Do You Think You Are?
Nellie Andreeva

It seems like the fate of new CBS series Chaos was sealed the day the network announced that the comedic CIA drama it fought so hard to pick up to series last summer was being assigned the Friday 8 PM … Read More »

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Survey: ‘Blue Bloods’ Most Commercial Of This Season’s New Series

By TIM ADLER in London | Thursday March 31, 2011 @ 6:59am PDTTags: Blue Bloods, Crime Procedural, Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior

It might not be the sexiest of this year’s new U.S. shows, but Blood Bloods has proved the most commercial at home and internationally combined. The Tom Selleck cop show has topped a chart of how this season’s freshman shows … Read More »

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