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RATINGS RAT RACE: ‘Happy Endings’ & ‘Revenge’ Rise, ‘Up All Night’ & ‘CSI’ Slip

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday October 13, 2011 @ 9:13am PDTTags: America's Next Top Model, Criminal Minds, CSI, Happy Endings, Harry's law, Law & Order: SVU, Modern Family, Ratings Rat Race, Revenge, Ringer, Suburgatory, Survivor: South Pacific, The Middle, TV Ratings, Up All Night, Whitney
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With baseball games on Fox and TBS, the other broadcast networks faced rather atypical competition but survived mostly unscathed. Most series were flat or very close to their levels from last week, with four exceptions. On the plus side, ABC’s sophomore Happy Endings (3.3/8 in adults 18-49), which featured Megan Mullally as a guest star, grew 14% from its fast national number last week, while its lead-in, Modern Family, was virtually unchanged. ABC’s gains carried over to the 10 PM hour where Revenge (2.7/7, 7.9 million viewers) was up 8% from its 18-49 fast national last week. (Both series were adjusted in the finals.) In the negative column, NBC’s rookie Up All Night (2.0/6) was down 9% from last week’s fast national, while CBS’ veteran CSI (2.6/7, 10.8 million) was down 10% to a season low and slipped to second place in the 10 PM hour among 18-49 behind ABC’s Revenge. CSI still topped the time period in total viewers.

Also noteworthy last night — both repeats of freshman series slated in the wake of last week’s cancellations did better than the shows they replaced: NBC’s Whitney (1.3 vs. 1.0 for Free Agents last week) and Ringer (0.4 in 18-34 and 18-49, up 33% in 18-34 and flat in 18-49; 1.2 million viewers, up 9%). Here are the numbers for the rest of the rest of the series. READ MORE »

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RATINGS RAT RACE: No Boot Camp Bump For ‘X Factor’ But Fox Still Wins Night

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday October 6, 2011 @ 9:33am PDTTags: America's Next Top Model, Criminal Minds, Free Agents, H8R, Happy Endings, Harry's law, Law & Order: SVU, Modern Family, Raising Hope, Ratings Rat Race, Revenge, Suburgatory, Survivor: South Pacific, The Middle, The X Factor, TV Ratings, Univision, Up All Night
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We’ve yet to see the ratings growth on The X Factor that Simon Cowell keeps promising, but at least the show is maintaining its ratings levels. The first 90-minute edition of the singing series, which entered the boot camp phase … Read More »

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RATINGS RAT RACE: ‘Suburgatory’ Opens Well To Seal Comedy Genre’s Comeback

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday September 29, 2011 @ 9:15am PDTTags: America's Next Top Model, Criminal Minds, CSI, Free Agents, H8R, Happy Endings, Harry's law, Law & Order: SVU, Modern Family, Ratings Rat Race, Revenge, Suburgatory, Survivor: South Pacific, The X Factor, TV Ratings, Up All Night
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Comedy’s hot streak this fall continues with another solid opening for a new half-hour show, ABC’s Suburgatory. The comedy starring Jane Levy and Jeremy Sisto drew a 3.3/9 among adults 18-49 at 8:30 PM, up 27% from the premiere of Better With You in the slot last fall for ABC’s biggest comedy debut in the half-hour in eight years. It also grew significantly from its lead-in, The Middle (2.6/8), which was down 16% from its season premiere last week. Suburgatory joins Fox’s New Girl, CBS’ 2 Broke Girls and NBC’s Up All Night and Whitney as the latest new comedy this season to open well. That gives every major broadcast network at least one promising new comedy in a single season — something we haven’t seen in ages — sealing the comedy genre’s comeback after a long drought. And comedy is not done for the season, with at least two more buzzworthy new half-hour entries — ABC’s Tim Allen-starrer Last Man Standing and Apartment 23 – showing potential to break out.

In its third week, Up All Night (2.1/6) shed two tenths vs. its time-slot premiere last week. It still performed better than all other NBC series on the night: doomed freshman Free Agents (1.0/3, down 23%), equally endangered sophomore Harry’s Law (1.2/3, flat with its season premiere last week) and Law & Order: SVU (2.0/5, down 17%). Read More »

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Will Hollywood Make Sure That Netflix Faces Competition Overseas?

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Tuesday September 27, 2011 @ 7:34am PDTTags: Brazil, Brothers and Sisters, Criminal Minds, Desperate Housewives, Disney, Netflix, NetMovies, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Walt Disney Company

That’s what some analysts here predict after looking at the deal Disney announced yesterday to license movies and TV shows to NetMovies Entertainment, a Brazilian competitor to Netflix. The release says this is “the first major global studio deal for NetMovies,” which … Read More »

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RATINGS RAT RACE: ‘X Factor’ Premiere Falls Short, ‘Revenge’ Off To Strong Start

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday September 22, 2011 @ 9:03am PDTTags: Criminal Minds, CSI, Free Agents, Harry's law, Law & Order: SVU, Modern Family, Ratings Rat Race, Revenge, Survivor: South Pacific, The Middle, The X Factor, TV Ratings, Up All Night
Nellie Andreeva

UPDATE: The premiere of Simon Cowell’s The X Factor drew a modest (by mega talent competition series standards) 4.2 rating/12 share in adults 18-49 and 12.1 million viewers. That fell short not only of the January season premiere of American Idol (9.7/26, 21.6 million viewers in the fast nationals) but also the April debut of NBC’s The Voice (5.1/13, 11.8 million) in the demo. It also fell well short of Cowell’s publicly stated expectations of beating Idol and attracting 20 million viewers. In the 9 PM hour, X Factor was beaten by ABC’s Modern Family in both 18-49 and total viewers and CBS’ Criminal Minds in viewers. Still, by virtue of Fox’s long history of low fall ratings, X Factor delivered Fox its first premiere week Wednesday win in 18-49 in 18 years and its highest-rated Wednesday in 13 years.

ABC (4.1/11, 11.4 million) had a great night against X Factor, with its returning series The Middle and Modern Family both growing from last fall and hitting demo series highs, and new drama Revenge launching well at 10 PM. The hourlong season premiere of The Middle (3.0/9) at 8 PM was up 11% from last September when the show’s season opener was a half-hour. At 9 PM, off its sweep at the Emmys, Modern Family (6.0/15, 14.3 million) opened its third season up 18% from the Season 2 premiere and ranked as the highest-rated program of the night in both the demo (by a wide margin) and total viewers. It also provided a strong lead-in for new soap Revenge (3.4/9, 10.1 million), which gave ABC its best debut in the Wednesday 10 PM time period in four years, outpacing last fall’s debut of The Whole Truth in the hour by 127% and topping the hour in 18-49. Read More »

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He’ll Be Back: Thomas Gibson Closes Deal To Continue On ‘Criminal Minds’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday June 20, 2011 @ 7:28pm PDTTags: ABC Studios, CBS, CBS Studios, Contract, Criminal Minds, Thomas Gibson
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EXCLUSIVE: This was close: After lengthy and rough negotiations, Criminal Minds star Thomas Gibson just signed a deal to return to the veteran CBS drama only two weeks before it is scheduled to begin production on its upcoming seventh season. I hear Gibson has signed on for two more years in a deal worth mid-to-high seven figures, plus a signing bonus, with the actor more than doubling his previous salary. The difficult negotiations with CBS, CBS Studios and ABC Studios created some jitters in the Criminal Minds writers room as the show’s scribes have been breaking stories and working on scripts for next season for almost a month now without knowing for sure if Gibson’s character, Supervisory Special Agent Aaron Hotchner, will return. With Gibson and Shemar Moore set to come back and Paget Brewster and A.J. Cook rejoining them, Read More »

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Thomas Gibson’s Fate On ‘Criminal Minds’ Still In Limbo As Production Start Looms

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Sunday June 5, 2011 @ 10:54pm PDTTags: CBS, Criminal Minds, Thomas Gibson
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Exactly one month before CBS’ Criminal Minds is scheduled to start production on its upcoming 7th season, there is still no deal for co-star Thomas Gibson. And word is that talks between the actor and CBS have stalled. That is … Read More »

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Paget Brewster Returning To ‘Criminal Minds’ Next Season, Rachel Nichols Leaving

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Saturday May 28, 2011 @ 5:14pm PDTTags: Criminal Minds, Paget Brewster, Rachel Nichols
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EXCLUSIVE: Paget Brewster will continue on CBS’ crime drama Criminal Minds next season, while new series regular Rachel Nichols won’t return. Meanwhile, co-star Thomas Gibson still doesn’t have a deal for next season, with negotiations ongoing.

I hear CBS and series’ … Read More »

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Ratings Rat Race: ‘Idol’ Rules Wednesday

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday May 19, 2011 @ 12:35pm PDTTags: America's Next Top Model, American Idol, Cougar Town, Criminal Minds, Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior, Happy Endings, Law & Order: SVU, Modern Family, Ratings Rat Race, The Middle, TV Ratings

A two-hour American Idol on Fox gave the network a big win in the primetime ratings race Wednesday. The episode was the highest-rated and most-watched of the night by far with its 23 million viewers and 7.2 preliminary rating … Read More »

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RATINGS RAT RACE: ‘Better With You’ Fights For Its Life With 19% Ratings Jump

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday May 12, 2011 @ 9:20am PDTTags: American Idol, Better With You, Breaking In, Cougar Town, Criminal Minds, Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior, Happy Endings, Law & Order: SVU, Minute to Win It, Modern Family, Ratings Rat Race, Survivor: Redemption Island, The Middle, TV Ratings
Nellie Andreeva

Bubble shows are getting their final chance to make a case for renewal this week, and ABC’s comedy Better with You did its best last night. The multi-camera comedy, considered a long shot for renewal, drew a 1.9/6 in adults … Read More »

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Shemar Moore Set To Return To ‘Criminal Minds’, No Deal For Thomas Gibson Yet

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday May 11, 2011 @ 4:42pm PDTTags: Criminal Minds, Shemar Moore, Thomas Gibson
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: After lengthy negotiations, Criminal Minds co-star Shemar Moore has closed a deal to return to the CBS crime drama next season. I hear that he will be doubling his salary to about $100,000 an episode, up from just north … Read More »

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RATINGS RAT RACE: ‘Happy Endings’ And ‘Criminal Behavior’ Drop Big Against ‘SVU’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday May 5, 2011 @ 10:29am PDTTags: American Idol, Better With You, Breaking In, Cougar Town, Criminal Minds, Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior, Happy Endings, Law & Order: SVU, Modern Family, Ratings Rat Race, Survivor: Redemption Island, The Middle, TV Ratings
Nellie Andreeva

After a promising 17% week-to-week ratings increase last week, ABC’s 10 PM comedy Happy Endings dropped alarmingly last night just as the networks are getting close to making their pickup decisions for next season. The midseason series (1.7/4) was down 19% from last week despite its lead-in, Cougar Town (2.2/6), being up a tenth. The difference? Happy Endings faced original competition in the 10 PM hour vs. repeats last week. The second Happy Endings original at 10:30 PM did worse, 1.4/4. Like Cougar Town, Better With You (1.6/5) was up a tenth from last week when both series followed repeats. A new The Middle (2.0/6) was up 5% from April 20, while a fresh Modern Family (3.8/10) was flat.

Law & Order: SVU‘s first original in a month, which guest starred John Stamos, did a 2.5/6, up a tenth from April 6. The veteran NBC crime drama won the 10 PM hour against ABC’s Happy Endings and CBS’ Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior (2.2/6), which was also hit by facing a new SVU, down 15% from April 16. Criminal Minds (3.2/8) was down 8%, while Survivor: Redemption Island (3.0/9) was flat with its fast national number last week. (Both Survivor and Fox’s American Idol always rise in the finals, so comparing fast nationals to finals is not completely fair.)

Speaking of Idol (6.4/18, 24.8 million), the reality series was down 7% from its fast national demo result last week, once again dominating the night in 18-49 and total viewers. Read More »

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JJ Is Back! AJ Cook Inks 2-Year Deal To Return To ‘Criminal Minds’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday April 15, 2011 @ 7:36pm PDTTags: A.J. Cook, Criminal Minds
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: JJ fans can rejoice. After a week of negotiations, A.J. Cook just closed a two-year deal to return to CBS’ drama Criminal Minds as a regular. She will guest star in the series’ sixth season finale on May 18 before re-joining the show full-time in the fall.

Cook departed Criminal Minds after the end of last season when her option was not picked up, stirring outcry among fans of the show. She appeared in the first two episodes of this season to wrap the storyline of her character JJ, who was transferred from the BAU to a job at the Pentagon. Cook then returned for the last episode of the season for co-star Paget Brewster, which aired last month. If Brewster’s NBC comedy pilot My Life As An Experiment does not go to series, she will also likely return to Criminal Minds in the fall since series’ producer ABC Studios has an option on her. Cook’s return to Criminal Minds does not bode well for newly minted regular Rachel Nichols, who was brought in to fill the void left by Cook’s departure. Meanwhile, ABC Studios is yet to close new deals with original cast members Thomas Gibson and Shemar Moore for next season, with negotiations continuing. Read More »

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RATINGS RAT RACE: ‘Happy Endings’ Off To Slow Start, ‘Breaking In’ Drops In Week 2

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday April 14, 2011 @ 9:52am PDTTags: America's Next Top Model, American Idol, Breaking In, Criminal Minds, Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior, Happy Endings, Minute to Win It, Modern Family, Ratings Rat Race, Shedding for the Wedding, Survivor: Redemption Island, The Middle
Nellie Andreeva

ABC’s established comedies, Modern Family (3.8/10) and The Middle (1.8/6), returned with originals lower. Modern Family was down 14% from its last first-run episode March 23, The Middle down 10%. Sandwiched between them was Better With You (1.5/4), which aired its … Read More »

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A.J. Cook In Talks To Return To ‘Criminal Minds’ As Regular, Paget Brewster May Be Back Too, While Ed Bernero Is Leaving

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday April 13, 2011 @ 11:41am PDTTags: A.J. Cook, Criminal Minds, Ed Bernero, Paget Brewster
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EXCLUSIVE: Potential great news for Criminal Minds fans: Co-star A.J. Cook is in talks to return to the CBS crime drama next season as a regular, and she may be joined by Paget Brewster. Meanwhile, executive producer Ed Bernero, who has run the series since the start, is leaving, with another Criminal Minds veteran, executive producer Erica Messer, taking over as the sole showrunner.

Cook departed Criminal Minds after the end of last season when her option was not picked up, stirring outcry among fans of the show. She appeared in the first two episodes of this season to wrap the storyline of her character JJ, who was transferred from the BAU to a job at the Pentagon. Cook then returned for the last episode (for now) of co-star Brewster, which aired last month. Speaking of Brewster, she is filming a comedy pilot for NBC, My Life As An Experiment, and will continue on the project if it goes to series. But if it doesn’t, I hear Criminal Minds producers ABC Studios/CBS Studios have an option on her for the show and, if they exercise it as many expect, that would bring the cast of the show back to the way it was at the end of last season. The developments, especially Cook’s potential return to Criminal Minds, do not bode well for newly minted regular Rachel Nichols, who was brought in to fill the void left by Cook’s departure. Cook got an offer to return to Criminal Minds late last week after the series’ producers recently came up with ideas for JJ for next season. Despite her exit from the show, Cook and her character continue to be extremely popular among Criminal Minds fans. Read More »

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RATINGS RAT RACE: ABC Freshman Series & ‘Survivor’ Hit Lows, Univision Third Again

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday March 31, 2011 @ 9:15am PDTTags: American Idol, Criminal Minds, Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior, Law & Order: SVU, Minute to Win It, Mr. Sunshine, Off the Map, Ratings Rat Race, Survivor: Redemption Island, Univision
Nellie Andreeva

A two-hour American Idol (7.5/21 in adults 18-49, 23.6 million viewers) delivered another dominating Wednesday win for Fox. The Top 11 performance show (redux) was down 5% from last week’s Top 11 performance episode and 1% in total viewers. But in the apples-to-apples comparison to last week’s fast national numbers … Read More »

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NBC’s Pilot ‘My Life As An Experiment’ Finds Lead And Casts Paget Brewster

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday March 11, 2011 @ 5:47pm PSTTags: Criminal Minds, My Life as an Experiment, NBC, Paget Brewster
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Comedian Jon Dore has landed the lead in NBC’s comedy pilot My Life As an Experiment. And, in big (and not so good) news for fans of CBS’ Criminal Minds, … Read More »

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UPDATE: ‘Criminal Minds’ Showrunner Simon Mirren Exits, Nears Deal With Sony

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Sunday February 20, 2011 @ 12:00pm PSTTags: Criminal Minds, Simon Mirren, The Sector, TV
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UPDATE: Despite speculation that British-born Simon Mirren might be headed back home, it turns out the trip he will be making is from Burbank/Studio City where Criminal Minds producers ABC Studios and CBS TV Studios are based, to Culver City. … Read More »

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Paget Brewster Tests Sitcom Waters As Fate Of Some ‘Criminal Minds’ Actors Is Uncertain

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday February 11, 2011 @ 11:01am PSTTags: CBS Nina Tassler, Criminal Minds, Paget Brewster, Paget Brewster Criminal Minds, Shemar Moore, Thomas Gibson, TV, TV Pilots
Nellie Andreeva

Will Paget Brewster be back on Criminal Minds next season? CBS certainly hopes so, I hear the network recently gave her an offer to return to the crime drama as a full-fledged regular next season. But as part of her … Read More »

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