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Another Summer To Forget For The Broadcast Networks

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday September 6, 2011 @ 12:46am PDTTags: 101 Ways To Leave A Game Show, Broadcast Networks, Buried Treasure, Combat Hospital, Expedition Impossible, Extreme Makeover: Weight Loss Edition, In The Flow With Affion Crockett, It's Worth What?, Love Bites, Love in the Wild, Reality TV, Same Name, Take The Money & Run, TV Ratings, TV Schedule
Nellie Andreeva

What do American Idol, Dancing With the Stars, Survivor, Who Wants To Be a Millionaire, Hell’s Kitchen, Big Brother, So You Think You Can Dance, America’s Got Talent and Wipeout have in common? They are broadcast TV’s biggest reality franchises of the past decade. And they all launched in the summer. Summer used to be a time for the networks to try out innovative reality formats that had never been done on the Big 4 broadcast nets (ballroom dancing or singing competitions, shows about castaways on an island or strangers locked in a house) or had been gone from primetime for a long time (game shows). Now the broadcast networks are throwing on retreads of over-exposed formats from June through August, so it’s no surprise that nothing has stuck since Wipeout launched on ABC in June 2008. A slew of newcomers came and went over the past three months: ABC’s Expedition Impossible, Take the Money & Run, Karaoke Battle USA and 101 Ways To Leave a Game Show; CBS’ Same Name, NBC’s Love In the Wild and the similar It’s Worth What?; and Buried Treasure on Fox. The only new offering on broadcast to show a pulse this summer was ABC’s Extreme Makeover: Weight Loss Edition, helped by a solid lead-in and the fact that it is an offshoot of a popular franchise. Things looked as bleak on the scripted side, with ABC’s Combat Hospital, Fox’s sketch comedy In the Flow With Affion Crockett and NBC’s burnoff Love Bites barely registering. READ MORE »

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RATINGS RAT RACE: CBS Edges ABC As Series Slip Across The Board

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday July 15, 2011 @ 9:51am PDTTags: Big Brother, Expedition Impossible, Love Bites, Ratings Rat Race, Rookie Blue, So You Think You Can Dance, TV Ratings, Wipeout
Nellie Andreeva

Overall usage was down 6% last night versus last Thursday, and ratings were down by at least as much across the board. At 9 PM, CBS’ Big Brother (2.3/7) was the top-rated program of the night by a mile, but it was down 18% from last Thursday’s premiere. Paced by Big Brother and helped by strong rerun numbers for The Big Bang Theory (1.6/6), CBS won the night in both adults 18-49 (1.6/5) and total viewers (6.2 million). Read More »

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RATINGS RAT RACE: ABC’s ‘Expedition: Impossible’ OK In Debut, ‘Rookie Blue’ Slips

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday June 24, 2011 @ 9:40am PDTTags: Expedition Impossible, Love Bites, Ratings Rat Race, Rookie Blue, So You Think You Can Dance, TV Ratings, Wipeout
Nellie Andreeva

ABC launched its summer Thursday lineup last night with the official season premiere of Wipeout (2.3/8 in adults 18-49, down 12% from its Thursday premiere last summer), the debut of Mark Burnett’s new reality series Expedition Impossible (2.3/7), which held … Read More »

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RATINGS RAT RACE: ‘So You Think You Can Dance’ Slips But Fox Still Wins Thursday

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday June 17, 2011 @ 9:23am PDTTags: Love Bites, Ratings Rat Race, So You Think You Can Dance, TV Ratings
Nellie Andreeva

It’s hard to get excited about ratings on a night featuring only two hours of original programming on the English-language broadcast networks. With the NBA Finals over, it was down to a reality show (Fox’s So You Think You Can … Read More »

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RATINGS RAT RACE: ‘So You Think You Can Dance’ Drops Against NBA Finals

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday June 10, 2011 @ 9:39am PDTTags: Love Bites, NBA Finals, Ratings Rat Race, So You Think You Can Dance, TV Ratings
Nellie Andreeva

Game 5 of the NBA Finals on ABC was once again the top program last night. The game, in which Dallas held off Miami’s fourth-quarter rally to win 112-103, delivered a 12.6 overnight household rating. And again, that was slightly … Read More »

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RATINGS RAT RACE: NBA Finals Dominate, ‘Love Bites’ Premiere Barely Registers

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday June 3, 2011 @ 9:34am PDTTags: Love Bites, NBA Finals, Ratings Rat Race, So You Think You Can Dance, TV Ratings
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The Dallas Mavericks-Miami Heat thriller scored a 10.5 overnight rating and is poised to easily win the night in 18-49 and total viewers. Game 2 of the NBA Finals, which the Mavericks rallied to win by two points, was down 4% from last year’s second game between the L.A. Lakers … Read More »

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NBC’s ‘Love Bites’ To Premiere In June

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday April 29, 2011 @ 3:31pm PDTTags: Love Bites, NBC
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Eight months after its original premiere date, NBC’s hourlong anthology comedy Love Bites will debut in its original Thursday 10 PM time slot. Love Bites‘ premiere is set for June 2. Once a high-flying prospect, Love Bites was prominently featured … Read More »

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NBC Cuts Back Order For ‘Love Bites’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday December 9, 2010 @ 1:39pm PSTTags: Becki Newton, Becki Newton Pregnant, Cindy Chupack Showrunner, Jordana Spiro, Love Bites, NBC Midseason Schedule, TV
Nellie Andreeva

NBC has cut the order to midseason dramedy Love Bites from 13 to 9. The anthology series, originally slated for a fall launch in the Thursday 10 PM slot, was pushed to midseason after a series of setbacks, including … Read More »

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NBC Mulling Possible Scheduling Changes; Grey’s Reruns Replacing ‘My Gen’ On ABC

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday October 5, 2010 @ 12:33pm PDTTags: ABC My Generation Cancelled, Dateline, Grey's Anatomy, Law & Order: SVU, Law & Order:LA, Love Bites, NBC Ratings, NBC Scheduling, Outlaw, Ratings, School Pride, The Apprentice, TV, TV Ratings, TV Scheduling, Undercovers
Nellie Andreeva

While it hasn’t been as quick on the trigger to cancel underperforming new series as its counterparts Fox and ABC, over the past week NBC has been closely monitoring its schedule, which has not performed as well as the network’s executives had hoped. I hear that the intention is to make as fewer scheduling moves as possible, and if things stay stable this week changes might not be implemented. But with the network’s Monday lineup already setting the tone for a 3rd-week declines last night, we could see NBC going for some scheduling tweaks by the end of the week. Most endangered is freshman drama Outlaw, which drew 1.0 in the 18-49 demo and 4.7 million viewers in the Friday 10 PM slot last week. Read More »

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Tracy Poust and Jon Kinnally Ink UMS Deal, Join ‘Love Bites’ As Writing Showrunners

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Sunday July 18, 2010 @ 8:00pm PDTTags: Angela Bromstad, Becki Newton, Love Bites, Marc Buckland, Showrunners, TV, Ugly Betty, Universal Media Studios
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JonKinnally_TracyPoustFormer Will & Grace executive producers/showrunners Tracy Poust and Jon Kinnally have inked a two-year overall deal with Universal Media Studios. Under the pact, said to be seven-figure per year, the two have joined new NBC/UMS anthology dramedy series Love Bites … Read More »

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‘My Boys’ Co-Star Joins Showtime’s ‘Big C’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday July 5, 2010 @ 11:58pm PDTTags: Gersh, Jordana Spiro, Kyle Howard, Kyle Howard My Boys, Laura Linney, Love Bites, Perfect Couples, Reid Scott, Showtime, Showtime The Big C, Sony/Original Film, TBS Comedy
Nellie Andreeva

ReidScottWhile his My Boys co-stars Jordana Spiro and Kyle Howard had to pull out of their regular roles on new NBC series Love Bites and Perfect Couples because of their commitment to the TBS comedy, … Read More »

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NBC Fall Sked Change: ‘Love Bites’ Out, ‘Apprentice’ In (‘Bites’ Production Pushed)

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday July 1, 2010 @ 2:45pm PDTTags: Becki Newton Pregnant, Cindy Chupack Showrunner, Constance Zimmer, Jordana Spiro, Love Bites, The Apprentice
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NBC-logo-RGB-pos2NBC is making a scheduling change for fall, with a non-celebrity edition of The Apprentice replacing new anthology dramedy series Love Bites. Production on Love Bites is being pushed by a few weeks to accommodate two new developments: the pregnancy of … Read More »

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