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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
Nellie Andreeva

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: ‘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
Nellie Andreeva

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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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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CBS Chief Les Moonves Says Ad Sales Should Stay Strong Into 2012

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Wednesday September 14, 2011 @ 1:26pm PDTTags: CBS, CBS Films, CSI, ESPN, Hulu, Les Moonves, Netflix, NFL, Simon & Schuster

CBS chief Les Moonves joined the chorus of media execs telling analysts today that they aren’t feeling any pain from the anemic economy. “We don’t see a slowdown,” he told the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Media, Communications and Entertainment Conference. Ad pricing in the TV scatter market is strong, he says. Also, “people who bought (ads) in the upfront are increasing their orders.”  Even radio and billboards are holding up. Indeed, Moonves expects the television network to be “very much in demand in the first quarter. Our schedule is very strong. The other guys have a lot of new shows. I know we’re the boring network, but we’re the stable network and we just win.” Stations also will benefit from what he says will be a record level of spending for the 2012 elections. “It may not be good for the country, but it’s going to b good for CBS.” Read More »

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‘CSI’ Creator Anthony Zuiker Moves To ABC Studios With 3-Year Deal

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday July 19, 2011 @ 1:59pm PDTTags: ABC Studios, Anthony Zuiker, CSI
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After 12 years at CBS TV Studios, Anthony E. Zuiker, creator and executive producer of the CSI franchise, is moving into a new TV home. Zuiker has signed a three-year first-look deal with ABC Studios for his  company, … Read More »

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Why TV Procedurals Also Rule The World

By TIM ADLER in London | Monday June 27, 2011 @ 8:32am PDTTags: Bones, CSI, House, NCIS, The Mentalist

As the 51st Monte Carlo Television Awards confirmed, TV procedurals remain the world’s most popular drama format. CSI was crowned the world’s #1 television franchise at the 6th International TV Audience Awards. It pulled in 65.3 million viewers worldwide in 2010. The only other shows that came near it were CSI Miami and House. And both of those are procedurals, too. According to TV consultancy TAPE, the various CSI strands were top of the U.S. imports in France, Germany, Spain and the UK. Meanwhile procedurals NCIS, Hawaii 5-0, and House were among the most popular U.S. imports in Italy. So what is it about the format that makes it so appealing to international audiences?

For a start, procedurals are the TV equivalent of comfort food. By the end of each episode, justice is done, the disease contained, order restored. They’re reassuring for viewers. Crucially for foreign audiences, the format is easy to understand. Also, there’s hardly any serial component, so shows like CSI Miami and NCIS can be viewed in any order. Go on vacation, miss a couple of episodes? No problem, nothing has changed. That’s why Blue Bloods – a show which sounds a bit dull on paper — does so well internationally compared to a critics’ darling such as Mad Men. CBS Studios International president Armando Nunez has praised Blue Bloods as “perhaps not as sexy to talk about, but it has proven a success both on the network and in terms of global distribution”. Blue Bloods has sold around the world not just to tiny channels but to big ones like Sky Atlantic in the UK, Australia’s Network Ten, and Discovery Latin America. John Peek, director of TAPE, whose clients include ABC, NBC and cable channels A&E and TNT, says Blue Bloods’ popularity stems from mixing up a police procedural with a family drama. CBS recently tapped Law & Order veteran Ed Zuckerman to make the show even more procedural. Peek says: “The continuing trend is for procedurals because they use a predictable structure. You know what you’re getting, which makes them palatable when they’re dubbed. Shows that obey the basic rules are easier for audiences overseas to get to grips with.” Read More »

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CSI Most Watched Series In World – Again

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday June 10, 2011 @ 9:38pm PDTTags: CBS TV Studios, CSI, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Jerry Bruckheimer TV

So the world’s #1 television franchise is CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. The CBS/CBS TV Studios/CBS Studios International/Jerry Bruckheimer TV show was presented with the International Television Audience Award for a Drama TV Series at the 51st Monte Carlo TV Festival. … Read More »

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Laurence Fishburne Leaves ‘CSI’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday June 7, 2011 @ 8:08pm PDTTags: CSI, Laurence Fishburne
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EXCLUSIVE: After two-and-a-half seasons, Laurence Fishburne is leaving CSI. The Oscar-nominated actor’s deal on the show was up and he opted not to renew it. He is expected to return to features full-time. It was a major coup for CBS … Read More »

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Time For CBS To Move ‘CSI’ From Thursday?

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday May 17, 2011 @ 10:11am PDTTags: CBS, CSI, TV Schedule
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This February marked the 10th anniversary of CBS’ overnight transformation into a major player on Thursday with the successful relocation there of Survivor and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. But, after nine and a half seasons, Survivor was pulled from the Thursday 8 PM slot at the beginning of this season, when CBS opened a comedy block on the night anchored by The Big Bang Theory. Will CBS continue the rejuvenation of its Thursday lineup by replacing longtime anchor CSI this year? As usual, CBS is mum on its scheduling plans, but the buzz is that this may be the year that CSI vacates TV’s most lucrative night. CBS laid the groundwork for such a move last year. With the very risky decision to uproot red-hot Monday comedy The Big Bang Theory to Thursday to launch a comedy block, the network understandably opted for stability on the rest of the night, keeping its 9-11 PM drama block of CSI and The Mentalist intact. But now that the network has established a foothold on the night with Big Bang, it can focus on rebuilding the rest of the lineup, most importantly, addressing the continuous ratings decline of CSI, which hit several series lows this season. Also helping the case for a change is the fact that neither of the other Big 4 made a move at 9 PM, leaving three aging shows — ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy, Fox’s Bones and NBC’s The Office — vulnerable to assault by an upstart. Read More »

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Elisabeth Harnois To Join ‘CSI’ As Regular

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday April 25, 2011 @ 6:45pm PDTTags: CSI
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Elisabeth Harnois, who co-starred on CBS’ Miami Trauma, will be joining the cast of another CBS/Jerry Bruckheimer drama as a regular, the mothership CSI series. She was originally signed to guest star in the May 5 episode as the estranged daughter of Conrad Ecklie (Marc Vann), who works for the Los Angeles Police Department and helps the Las Vegas crew hunt down serial killer Nate Haskell (Bill Irwin). Read More »

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RATINGS RAT RACE: Shocking ‘Idol’ Result Show Down, CW Series Return Lower

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday April 8, 2011 @ 10:01am PDTTags: American Idol, Bones, CSI, Nikita, Outsourced, Perfect Couples, Ratings Rat Race, Rules of Engagement, The Big Bang Theory, The Mentalist, The Vampire Diaries, TV Ratings
Nellie Andreeva

The American Idol result show (6.1/19 in adults 18-49, 20.6 million viewers), which sent frontrunner (and fifth consecutive female contestant) Pia Toscano packing, was down 9% from last week in the adults 18-49 demographic. Bones (3.4/9) returned to the Fox … Read More »

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RATINGS RAT RACE: CBS Dramas Up, ‘American Idol’ Down

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday March 11, 2011 @ 10:17am PSTTags: American Idol, Bones, CSI, NBA, Rules of Engagement, The Big Bang Theory, The Mentalist, TNT
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After the dramatic American Idol results show last week featuring the elimination of 11 semifinalists, which shot up 15% from the week before and 30% from last year, the show came back to Earth last night with a respectable showing as broadcasters faced big NBA games on TNT. The hourlong … Read More »

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RATINGS RAT RACE: ‘CSI’ & ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Hit Lows Against ‘American Idol’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday February 25, 2011 @ 9:24am PSTTags: ABC Ratings, American Idol, CBS Ratings, Community, CSI, CW Ratings, Fox Ratings, Grey's Anatomy, NBC Ratings, The Big Bang Theory, TV, TV Ratings, Winter Wipeout
Nellie Andreeva

Two hours of Fox’s American Idol (7.2/20 in adults 18-49, 21.6 million viewers) dominated another Thursday, delivering the highest numbers on the night with non-sports programming for any network in 3 years (18-49) and 4 years (total viewers). The reality series … Read More »

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RATINGS RAT RACE: CBS Wins Repeat-Laden Thursday

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday December 17, 2010 @ 9:14am PSTTags: $#*! My Dad Says, ABC Ratings, CBS Ratings, CSI, Ratings Rat Race, The Big Bang Theory, The Mentalist, TV, TV Ratings
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With most series already on holiday hiatus, it was a quiet Thursday that only featured two originals, CBS’ comedies The Big Bang Theory (4.1/13 in 18-49, 13.5 million viewers) and $#*! My Dad Says (3.0/9, 10.5 million). They were … Read More »

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RATINGS RAT RACE: CBS, Fox & ABC Up While NBC’s ‘Apprentice’ Hits Series Low

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday November 19, 2010 @ 9:50am PSTTags: $#*! My Dad Says, 30 Rock, ABC Ratings, Bones, CBS Ratings, Community, CSI, Fox Ratings, Fringe, Grey's Anatomy, NBC Ratings, Outsourced, Private Practice, Ratings Rat Race, The Apprentice, The Big Bang Theory, The Mentalist, TV, TV Ratings
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ABC has got to give Grey’s Anatomy a better lead-in. With the Charlie Brown Thanksgiving special (2.2/6, up 10% from last year, 7.4 million) at 8 PM vs. a Grey’s return (1.0) last week, the veteran medical drama (4.3/11, 11.4 … Read More »

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RATINGS RAT RACE: Fox Wins With Sluggish World Series, NBC Comedies Up

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday October 29, 2010 @ 9:28am PDTTags: $#*! My Dad Says, ABC Ratings, CBS Ratings, Community, CSI, CW Ratings, Fox Ratings, Fox World Series, Grey's Anatomy, It's a Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown, NBC Ratings, Nikita, Outsourced, Private Practice, Ratings, The Apprentice, The Big Bang Theory, The Mentalist, TV Ratings, Vampire Diaries, World Series Ratings, World Series Yankees
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If it was up to TV executives, the Yankees would sail through to the World Series every year, with the rest of the teams squabbling for the other spot. This year’s World Series between the Giants and the Rangers on … Read More »

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RATINGS RAT RACE: ‘Bang’ Tops, ‘Mentalist’ Dips, NBC Comedies & ABC Dramas Down

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday October 22, 2010 @ 9:44am PDTTags: $#*! My Dad Says, ABC Ratings, Community, CSI, CW Ratings, Fox Ratings, Grey's Anatomy, MLB NLCS, NBC Ratings, Nikita, Outsourced, Private Practice, Ratings, The Apprentice, The Big Bang Theory, The Mentalist, The Vampire Diaries, TV, TV Ratings
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There is a new ratings king on Thursday. For the first time, the new kid on the Thursday block, CBS’ transplant The Big Bang Theory (4.0/13, 12.9 million), ranked as the highest-rated program on the night in 18-49, supplanting perennial winner Grey’s Anatomy. The comedy accomplished the feat on its fifth airing on the night, a nice validation of CBS’ risky scheduling move. Big Bang was down a tenth from the comedy’s 18-49 fast national result last week, while its lead-out, newly picked-up freshman $#*! My Dad Says (3.1/9) was flat, improving its 18-49 retention from last week to 78%. (Both comedies went up in the finals last week, Big Bang by .2, $#*! by .1) Both Big Bang and $#*! were up in total viewers from last week, by 3% and 7%, respectively. Veteran CSI (3.3/9, up 6%, 14.7 million, up 2%) continued its resurgence with a second consecutive week of ratings gains. But The Mentalist (2.9/9) was down 9% from its fast national number last week to post its lowest-rated telecast in the Thursday 10 PM slot, which it still won. (The Mentalist may gain a tenth of a rating point in the finals as it did last week.) CBS won the night by a wide margin in 18-49 (3.3/9) and total viewers (13.6 million), its fifth consecutive Thursday win. Read More »

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Who Pitched This To The Networks Today?

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Monday October 11, 2010 @ 7:24pm PDTTags: CSI, The Huffington Post, TV



And if no one did, just mail me a check. (Haven’t you seen that CSI hit an all-time low last Thursday?) Today’s HuffPo headline links to this article.

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RATINGS RAT RACE: All-Time ‘CSI’ Low

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday October 8, 2010 @ 9:42am PDTTags: $#*! My Dad Says, ABC Ratings, Bones, Broadcast TV Thursday Night, CBS Ratings, Community, CSI, CW Ratings, Fox Ratings, Fringe, Grey's Anatomy, NBC Ratings, Nikita, Outsourced, Ratings, The Big Bang Theory, The Mentalist, The Office, TV, TV Ratings, Vampire Diaries
Nellie Andreeva

The generational transition on Thursday continues. The 3 series that had been the anchors on the night for years, CBS’ CSI, ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy and NBC’s The Office, all hit lows last night. No great reason for concern for Grey’s (4.5/12) and The Office (3.4/9) just yet as they led their networks’ lineup by a wide margin and finished No.1 and No.3 for the night overall. But CSI (2.7/7) was the lowest-rated program on CBS last night, which featured ratings declines on the CBS and NBC and gains on Fox and CW. Since male-skewing shows were hit harder than the female-skewing ones, the baseball playoffs probably played a role, and some of the declines will probably be offset in DVR viewing. Read More »

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