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ABC Sets Summer Schedule Featuring Three Scripted And One New Reality Series

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday March 21, 2013 @ 2:31pm PDTTags: ABC, Mistresses, Motive, Rookie Blue
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ABC has firmed up the bulk of its summer lineup, which will feature three original scripted series — Canadian crime imports Motive and returning Rookie Blue as well as homemade soap Mistresses. That is more than the 1-2 scripted originals each of the broadcast networks has offered in the last couple of summers. Motive, from The Mentalist‘s Daniel Cerone, is getting a boost with a special premiere after the Dancing With The Stars The Results Show finale on May 21 before the thriller drama moves into the high-profile Thursday 9 PM slot, leading to Rookie Blue. Also joining ABC’s summer schedule is Whodunnit?, a new mystery reality competition show from CSI creator Anthony E. Zuiker, which will air in the Sunday 9 PM slot as the network is resting its serialized dramas that traditionally don’t repeat well — Grey’s Anatomy, Scandal and Revenge. Also set to take a break are Castle, replaced for some of the summer by Mistresses, whose previously announced premiere is being pushed by a week, and Once Upon A Time, by Celebrity Wife Swap. Other returning unscripted series this summer include The Bachelorette, Wipeout, Extreme Makeover: Weight Loss Edition and What Would You Do? There are still a couple of holes on ABC’s summer schedule which are expected to be filled soon. Here are ABC’s summer premiere dates: READ MORE »

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ABC Picks Up Fourth Season Of ‘Rookie Blue’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday June 26, 2012 @ 3:00pm PDTTags: ABC, Rookie Blue
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ABC has renewed summer Canadian drama Rookie Blue for a fourth season. While not a hit by any stretch — it most recently averaged a 1.3 in the 18-49 demo — the cop drama has done well enough to warrant … Read More »

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ABC Announces Summer Schedule

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday April 5, 2012 @ 10:47am PDTTags: ABC, Duets, Rookie Blue
Nellie Andreeva

ABC just unveiled its summer schedule, which features the return of Canadian import Rookie Blue as the only scripted show, joined by the second seasons of reality series Secret Millionaire and Extreme Makeover: Weight Loss Edition and new installment of … Read More »

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RATINGS RAT RACE: CBS Tops Another Night Of Football Preemptions

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday August 26, 2011 @ 9:22am PDTTags: Big Brother, Expedition Impossible, Ratings Rat Race, Rookie Blue, TV Ratings
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Once again, the fast nationals for last night have to be taken with a grain of salt as some ABC, CBS, and NBC stations preempted network programming for NFL coverage, leading to possible ratings inflation. With that in … Read More »

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RATINGS RAT RACE: ‘Dance’ Finale Up From Last Week, Down From Last Year

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday August 12, 2011 @ 9:28am PDTTags: Big Brother, Expedition Impossible, Ratings Rat Race, Rookie Blue, So You Think You Can Dance, TV Ratings, Wipeout
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The season finale of So You Think You Can Dance (2.1/7, 6.3 million) was up 24% in 18-49 and 17% in total viewers from last week but down 13% in the demo from last summer’s finale. In the … Read More »

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RATINGS RAT RACE: ‘Expedition: Impossible’ & ‘Dance’ Down, ‘Big Brother’ Up

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday August 5, 2011 @ 8:50am PDTTags: Big Brother, Expedition Impossible, Ratings Rat Race, Rookie Blue, So You Think You Can Dance, TV Ratings, Wipeout
Nellie Andreeva

After rebounding last week, Mark Burnett’s new reality series for ABC Expedition: Impossible (1.4/4) slipped again, down 13%. Meanwhile, its lead-in, Wipeout (1.9/7), and lead-out, Rookie Blue (1.3/4), were both even with last week. Fox’s So You Think You … Read More »

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RATINGS RAT RACE: ‘Expedition: Impossible’ Rebounds, Others Steady

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday July 29, 2011 @ 9:18am PDTTags: Big Brother, Expedition Impossible, Ratings Rat Race, Rookie Blue, So You Think You Can Dance, TV Ratings, Wipeout
Nellie Andreeva

ABC’s new reality series Expedition: Impossible (1.6/5) rebounded from last week’s low, up 23%. Still, the adventure series remained the lowest-rated unscripted offering for the night. On ABC, it was flanked by Wipeout (1.9/7) and scripted drama Rookie Blue (1.3/4), … 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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ABC Renews Summer Series ‘Rookie Blue’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday July 13, 2011 @ 9:23am PDTTags: ABC, Entertainment One, Rookie Blue, TV Renewal

ABC has renewed its summer cop drama Rookie Blue for a third season, rewarding the show for solid Season 2 ratings in its new 10 PM time slot on Thursdays. The series, which follows five rookie cops in their personal … 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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ABC Shifts Summer Premiere Dates

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday May 13, 2011 @ 5:57pm PDTTags: 101 Ways To Leave A Game Show, ABC, Expedition Impossible, Rookie Blue, summer schedule, Take the Money and Run, Wipeout

The summer premiere of ABC’s 101 Ways to Leave a Game Show is shifting to Tuesday, June 21 at 9 PM, the network announced today. It also said that the series premiere of Expedition Impossible and the Season 2 premiere … Read More »

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RATINGS RAT RACE: Big Start For NFL Season, ‘Nikita’ Debut OK, ‘Diaries’ Slips

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday September 10, 2010 @ 9:20am PDTTags: Big Brother, CBS Ratings, CW Ratings, NBC Ratings, NFL Ratings, Nikita, Ratings, Rookie Blue, Supernatural, The Vampire Diaries, TV Ratings
Nellie Andreeva

SECOND UPDATE PM: With the final Nielsen numbers in, the NFL kickoff game between the Saints and the Vikings averaged 27.5 million viewers to become the most-watched regular season primetime NFL game in 14 years.

UPDATED: Last night’s NFL season opener between Super Bowl champions New Orleans Saints and the Minnesota Vikings drew a 17.7 overnight rating/28 share – the best for any NFL regular season primetime game in 13 years and the best ever for an NFL kickoff game. The faceoff, a rematch of last year’s NFC Championship Game, was won by the Saints 14-9. It gave a very strong start to the season for the NFL, which faces the possibility of a lockout next year. NBC dominated primetime with a 15.9/26 average in the metered markets, beating the combined delivery of CBS, ABC, Fox and CW. The premiere of the CW’s new Thursday lineup was no doubt affected by the hugely-rated game, though it’s worth mentioning Read More »

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Ratings Rat Race: ‘Big Brother’ Tops Night

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday August 6, 2010 @ 8:46am PDTTags: ABC News Primetime:Boston Medical, ABC Ratings, Big Brother, Boston Med, CBS Ratings, Fox Ratings, Ratings, Rookie Blue, So You Think You Can Dance, The Mentalist, TV, TV Ratings
Nellie Andreeva

CBS’ Big Brother (2.4/8 in adults 18-49) at 8 PM was the highest-rated program by a mile last night. It was up 9% from last week. Fox’s So You Think You Can Dance result show (1.8/6) at 9 PM was down 10% and tied for No.1 in the hour with … Read More »

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RATINGS RAT RACE: ‘Rookie Blue’ Rebounds, ‘Tosh.0′ Hits Another Record

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday July 30, 2010 @ 9:13am PDTTags: ABC News Primetime:Boston Medical, ABC Ratings, Big Brother, CBS Ratings, Comedy Central, CSI, Fox Ratings, Ratings, Rookie Blue, So You Think You Can Dance, The Mentalist, The Office, Tosh.0, TV, TV Ratings, Wipeout
Nellie Andreeva

After hitting an all-time low last week, ABC’s original drama Rookie Blue (1.8 rating/6 share among adults 18-49) posted a 20 % ratings bump last night, hitting its highest number since the premiere. Its lead-out, ABC News Boston Med (1.2/4) at 10PM also stopped the bleeding, up 9%. Still, the highest-rated ABC show … Read More »

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RATINGS RAT RACE: ABC’s ‘Rookie Blue’ & ‘Boston Med’ Hit All-Time Lows

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday July 23, 2010 @ 3:49pm PDTTags: ABC News Primetime:Boston Medical, ABC Ratings, Big Brother, CBS Ratings, Fox Ratings, Ratings, Rookie Blue, So You Think You Can Dance, TV, TV Ratings, Wipeout
Nellie Andreeva

By now does anyone even remember what was on last night? Probably not but Nielsen just released the (not so fast) nationals for Thursday after series of delays. Here are the highlights: ABC got some good news and some bad news. Wipeout (2.6 rating/9 share in adults 18-49, 7.9 million … Read More »

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CW Acquires Canadian Comedy ’18 To Life’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday July 15, 2010 @ 2:35pm PDTTags: 18 to Life, Flashpoint, Plain Jane CW, Rookie Blue, TV
Nellie Andreeva

CW logo NEWMaybe the U.S. broadcast networks should just collectively outsource their summer scripted programming to Canada. The CW, which has been barely keeping the lights on with all-repeats this summer, has acquired the rights to the Canadian comedy … Read More »

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‘Rookie Blue’ Renewed by ABC; ‘Good Luck Charlie’ Renewed By Disney Channel

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday July 12, 2010 @ 11:11am PDTTags: ABC, Cable TV, Canwest Global Television, Disney Channel, E1 Entertainment, Ratings, Rookie Blue, Rookie Blue Ratings, TV Ratings
Nellie Andreeva

UPDATED: ABC and Canada’s Canwest have renewed freshman summer  drama Rookie Blue for a second season 3 weeks into the show’s run on ABC and Canwest’s Global Television. Additionally, ABC’s sibling the Disney Channel has ordered up a second season of Good Luck Charlie three months into the series’ freshman … Read More »

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Ratings Rat Race: ‘Big Brother’ Return Solid

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday July 9, 2010 @ 8:51am PDTTags: ABC Drama Rookie Blue, ABC News Primetime:Boston Medical, ABC Wipeout Ratings, Big Brother, CBS Big Brother Ratings, Fox Glee Ratings, Glee, NBC Community, Ratings, Rookie Blue, So You Think You Can Dance, TV, TV Ratings
Nellie Andreeva

ABC Wipeout and CBS’ Big Brother’s first face-off this summer ended in a draw. The season premiere of Big Brother at 8PM averaged a 2.4 rating/9 share in adults 18-49, up 4% from last summer’s debut. Facing Big Brother, Wipeout (2.4/8) took a hit, down 14% in the demo from … Read More »

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RATINGS RAT RACE: Promising Start For ABC Drama ‘Rookie Blue’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday June 25, 2010 @ 9:18am PDTTags: 100 Questions, ABC, ABC Drama Rookie Blue, Boston Med, Networks, Ratings, Rookie Blue, TV, TV Ratings, TV Shows
Nellie Andreeva

rookie-blueIn the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king. After a slew of new dramas opening in the 1.3-1.5 rating range among adults 18-49 this summer, ABC’s Canadian import Rookie Blue last night emerged as the most promising new off-season scripted prospect with a 2.0 rating/6 share in 18-49 and a solid 7.3 million viewers overall for its premiere. Read More »

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