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TNT Shifts Four Summer Series Premieres

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday April 10, 2013 @ 10:49am PDTTags: Cold Justice, Franklin & Bash, Perception, Rizzoli & Isles, TNT
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TNT has tweaked the premiere dates for four of the nine original series (scripted and unscripted) it is running this summer. The change is biggest for Franklin & Bash, whose third season will launch June 19 instead of the previously announced July 24. The show, starring Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Breckin Meyer and new female lead Heather Locklear, will start with a two-hour season opener. Other three series’ launch dates will be shifted by a week: The fourth season of Rizzoli & Isles and the second season of Perception will start June 25 instead of June 18, and new unscripted series Cold Justice will premiere September 3 instead of August 27.

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TNT Announces Summer Premiere Dates For New Dwayne Johnson Series ‘The Hero’, ‘Rizzoli & Isles’ & More: Video

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Thursday March 21, 2013 @ 12:01pm PDTTags: Dwayne Johnson, Rizzoli & Isles, The Hero, TNT

Other networks are announcing their season finales this week but TNT is putting up dates for when its shows are coming back and when new series are debuting this summer. The network announced that the Dwayne … Read More »

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TNT’s Rizzoli & Isles’ Summer Finale Earns Season High

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Wednesday August 15, 2012 @ 2:49pm PDTTags: Rizzoli & Isles, TNT, TV Ratings

Last night’s summer finale of TNT’s crime solving series was big. Big audience with a big jump. Rizzoli & Isles drew in 6 million viewers on Tuesday night. That’s a season three high for the … Read More »

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UPDATE: TNT Renews ‘Dallas’ And ‘Rizzoli & Isles’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday June 29, 2012 @ 11:31am PDTTags: Dallas, Rizzoli & Isles, TNT, Warner Horizon
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TNT has started its renewals with a fourth season order to its new flagship series, Rizzoli & Isles, and a second season pickup of freshman Dallas. Both have received 15-episode orders to air in 2013.

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Frank Darabont’s ‘LA Noir’ Nears Series Order At TNT

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday June 28, 2012 @ 12:28pm PDTTags: Dallas, Falling Skies, Franklin & Bash, Rizzoli & Isles, TNT
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Frank Darabont’s LA Noir continues to gain momentum at TNT. I hear the project, Darabont’s followup to The Walking Dead, is expected to land a series order after TNT brass officially screen it early next month. LA Noir … Read More »

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TNT’s ‘Rizzoli & Isles’ Slightly Down, ‘Franklin & Bash’ Slightly Up In Return

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday June 6, 2012 @ 1:00pm PDTTags: Franklin & Bash, Ratings, Rizzoli & Isles, TNT
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After airing behind TNT’s flagship drama The Closer for its first two seasons, Rizzoli & Isles did well in its first outing in the anchor 9 PM position. The third-season premiere of the female procedural drew 5.62 … Read More »

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‘Rizzoli & Isles’ Hits Season High In Viewers

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday August 29, 2011 @ 11:15am PDTTags: Cable Ratings, Rizzoli & Isles, The Closer, TNT
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DVR viewing boosted TNT’s hit Rizzoli & Isles to a season high in total viewers. In Live+7, the show’s Aug. 8 episode drew more than 9.1 million viewers, 2.6 million of them in the adults 18-49 demo and 3.4 million in adults 25-54. Veteran The Closer didn’t … Read More »

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TNT Announces Fall/Winter Schedule

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday August 23, 2011 @ 10:52am PDTTags: Alfred Molina, Dermot Mulroney, Kevin Alejandro, Leverage, Rizzoli & Isles, Southland, The Closer, TNT, TNT Mystery Movie Night
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TNT has set its fall/winter schedule, which includes the continuation of the current seasons of The Closer, Rizzoli & Isles and Leverage, which all return with new episodes on Nov. 27/Nov. 28; the new season of Southland, which will kick off in January; and the first installment of the network’s new original movie franchise TNT Mystery Movie Night, which will debut Nov. 29. In the scheduling release, TNT also announces additional castings on several of its movies, including Alfred Molina joining Scott Turow’s Innocent, Dermot Mulroney tapped to star in Silent Witness, and Mark-Paul Gosselaar and Kevin Alejandro coming on board Hide. Here is a detailed list of TNT’s upcoming premiere dates: Read More »

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TNT Renews ‘Rizzoli & Isles’ For 3rd Season

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday August 5, 2011 @ 12:31pm PDTTags: Rizzoli & Isles, TNT, TV Renewal

TNT’s Rizzoli & Isles, which kicked off its second season this summer with 8.6 million viewers and is battling the network’s The Closer for the top viewership ranking among all basic cable series, has been renewed for a third season. … Read More »

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TNT Announces Summer Schedule

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday March 10, 2011 @ 10:29am PSTTags: Falling Skies, Franklin & Bash, Hawthorne, Kidnapped by the Kids, Leverage, Memphis Beat, Men of a Certain Age, OWN, Rizzoli & Isles, The Closer, TNT
Nellie Andreeva

TNT just unveiled its summer schedule, setting premiere dates and time slots for new series Franklin & Bash and Falling Skies and returning shows The Closer, Rizzoli & Isles, Hawthorne, Men of a Certain Age, Memphis Beat and Leverage. Meanwhile, OWN announced its new unscripted series Kidnapped by the Kids, … Read More »

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ANALYSIS: Lessons Of The Fall & What Lies Ahead For The Big 4 Broadcast Networks

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday December 31, 2010 @ 10:47pm PSTTags: ABC Ratings, Broadcast Networks, Cable TV, CBS Chaos, CBS Ratings, Chuck Lorre, Fox Ratings, Glee, Jersey Shore, NBC Ratings, Oprah Winfrey OWN, Rizzoli & Isles, School Pride, Simon Cowell, The Middle, The Walking Dead, TV, TV Ratings
Nellie Andreeva

As broadcast network executives were leaving for their holiday destinations last week, most of them were certainly glad to get away, and not only because of  the dreary wet Los Angeles weather. The broadcast networks had little to cheer about this fall, which failed to produce breakout hits of the size of Modern Family or Glee a year ago. This year, the breakout hits were all on cable: The Walking Dead on AMC and Rizzoli & Isles on TNT, which ranked as the top basic cable series of 2010 among adults 18-49 and total viewers, respectively. The biggest new reality hit was also on cable, MTV’s Jersey Shore, which launched at the very end of 2009. Here are some notes on the fall season, evaluation of the performance of the individual networks and a look ahead at midseason.

- The biggest thing on TV this season has been football, which set ratings records for NBC and ESPN. It dwarfed the entertainment competition not only in live viewing but also in Live+7 where scripted series gain a significant chunk of their viewership.

- It’s nearly impossible to launch a new series at 8 PM. Two of the 3 new 8 PM series, NBC’s Undercovers and ABC’s My Generation, are history, while ABC’s No Ordinary Family was on a ratings decline until moving to 9 PM where its numbers stabilized. NBC’s new reality series School Pride barely registered in the Friday 8 PM slot, raising concern over CBS’ plan to launch new drama Chaos in the slot in midseason.

- Big-name producers don’t guarantee success unless the name is Chuck Lorre. While the Lorre-produced new CBS sitcom Mike & Molly is the highest-rated new series this fall in the 18-49 demo, J.J. Abrams’ Undercovers went bust as did the Jerry Bruckheimer-produced ABC legal drama The Whole Truth, while another Bruckheimer series, Chase, is fading. The jury is still out on Dick Wolf’s Law & Order spinoff Law & Order: Los Angeles, which has had so-so ratings so far. Next up are Shonda Rhimes with ABC’s Off the Map and David E. Kelley with NBC’s Harry’s Law.

- Texas proved the unluckiest setting for new series. Of the four freshman series set and filmed in the Lone Star state, My Generation, Lone Star, The Good Guys and Chase, 3 have been already been canceled and one, Chase, is struggling. Read More »

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TNT Renews Medical Drama ‘Hawthorne’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday September 14, 2010 @ 4:42pm PDTTags: Hawthorne, Hawthorne Renewal, Hawthorne Season 3, Jada Pinkett Smith, Leverage, Memphis Beat, Rizzoli & Isles, The Closer, TNT Renewals
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: I hear TNT tomorrow will announce a 10-episode Season 3 pickup for the Sony TV-produced medical drama starring Jada Pinkett Smith. With The Closer, Rizzoli, Leverage, Memphis Beat and now Hawthorne all getting renewed, the only TNT summer series waiting its fate is Jerry Bruckheimer’s cop drama Dark Blue. While attracting about half of the audience of TNT’s Monday juggernauts The Closer and Rizzoli & Isles, Hawthorne has been a solid performer ratings-wise, with its audience averaging 3.4 million viewers. What’s more, it was used to successfully launch a new series this summer, the off-beat Memphis Beat. The renewal for the quirky cop show starring Jason Lee has been in the works for awhile, so Read More »

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CABLE NOTES: ‘Memphis Beat’ Looks Good For Renewal, ‘Army Wives’ Spinoff A No-Go, ‘Facing Kate’ Order Trimmed

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday September 1, 2010 @ 7:17pm PDTTags: Army Wives, Army Wives Spinoff, Cable TV, Lifetime, Memphis Beat, Rizzoli & Isles, TNT, TNT Memphis Beat, USA
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- TNT’s freshman Memphis Beat looks promising for a second-season renewal, though there is no official pickup yet. The network is expected to make the decision within the next few days. Despite being overshadowed by the blockbuster launch of fellow freshman TNT drama Rizzoli & Isles, which received an early renewal, … Read More »

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TNT Renews ‘Closer’, ‘Rizzoli’ & ‘Leverage’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday July 30, 2010 @ 9:46am PDTTags: Cable TV, Hawthorne, Leverage, Memphis Beat, Rizzoli & Isles, The Closer, TNT, TNT Renewals, TV
Nellie Andreeva

No surprise here: freshman Rizzoli & Isles and veteran The Closer have been on fire since getting paired on Monday earlier this month. Leverage also has been a solid performer for the network, showing growth in its new Sunday slot. No word yet on freshman Memphis Beat and Hawthorne. Here is TNT’s release.

TNT has ordered new seasons of three of the network’s hit series.  The Closer, which continues to rank as ad-supported cable’s #1 series of all time, will return for its seventh season.  Rizzoli & Isles, which currently ranks as cable’s #1 new series for the year-to-date, will return for a second season.  Leverage, which is performing exceptionally well in its new Sunday timeslot, will be back for a fourth season.  TNT has ordered 15 episodes each of The Closer and Leverage, along with 13 episodes of Rizzoli & Isles, with all three slated to start their new seasons in 2011.

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RATINGS RAT RACE: TNT’s ‘Rizzoli & Isles’ Continues To Impress, Jennifer Love Hewitt Movie Does Solid Business For Lifetime

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday July 20, 2010 @ 2:24pm PDTTags: Angie Harmon, Cable TV, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Lifetime Ratings, Ratings, Rizzoli & Isles, Sasha Alexander, The Client List, The Closer, TNT Ratings, TV, TV Ratings
Nellie Andreeva

In its second airing last night, TNT’s new drama series Rizzoli & Isles drew a big 7.3 million viewers, dropping only 4% from its record-setting debut last week. What’s more, the crime procedural starring Angie Harmon and Sasha Alexander built on its Closer lead-in in total viewers (7.0 million). Last … Read More »

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RATINGS RAT RACE UPDATE: Massive Audiences For ‘Deadliest Catch,’ ‘Covert Affairs’ Solid In Debut, ‘White Collar’ Down

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday July 14, 2010 @ 1:15pm PDTTags: After the Catch, Cable TV, Covert Affairs, Deadliest Catch Ratings, Discovery Channel Ratings, Hot in Cleveland, Memphis Beat, MTV Ratings, Ratings, Rizzoli & Isles, Royal Pains, The Glades Ratings, TNT Ratings, TV Ratings, USA Network, White Collar
Nellie Andreeva

phil-harris-deadliest-catchIt was an extraordinary night on cable last night, with a high-profile series debut (USA Network’s Covert Affairs), a high-profile series finale (MTV’s The Hills) and an extraordinary event episode on Discovery Channel’s Deadliest Catch. After weeks of ratings build-up, the … Read More »

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RATINGS RAT RACE UPDATE: Big Debut For ‘Rizzoli & Isles’, ‘Closer’ Returns Strong

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday July 13, 2010 @ 11:30am PDTTags: Angie Harmon, Kyra Sedgwick, Ratings, Rizzoli & Isles, Sasha Alexander, The Closer, TNT Ratings, TV Ratings
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UPDATE 11:30AM: TNT’s new original series Rizzoli & Isles drew some 7.6 million viewers for its premiere last night to rank as the most watched ad-supported cable series launch of all time with commercials. (Overall, it is close second to the commercial-free 2008 debut of the now-defunct TNT legal drama Raising … Read More »

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