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Ratings Rat Race: ‘X Factor’ To Hit (Or Tie) Series High, ‘Man Up’ Drops, ‘NCIS: LA’ Hot

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday October 26, 2011 @ 10:06am PDTTags: Body of Proof, Dancing With The Stars, Last Man Standing, Man Up, NCIS, NCIS: LA, Prime Suspect, Ratings Rat Race, The Biggest Loser, The X Factor, TV Ratings
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Jay Leno Gets Big Ratings Boost From President Obama’s Appearance

The live show stage brought the long-awaited ratings bump on The X Factor. The first live performance edition of the reality series last night posted a 4.3/10 in 18-49 from 8-10:30 PM, a series-high fast national result. The show’s premiere posted a 4.2 fast national before rising to a 4.4 in the finals, so X Factor is on track to at least match that when the Live+Same Day ratings are released later today. (UPDATE 2 PM: X Factor rose to a 4.4 in the finals.) Compared with last Tuesday, X Factor was up 10% in 18-49 and 13% in total viewers to 11.8 million. Fox won the night in 18-49 and finished second to CBS in total viewers. READ MORE »

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RATINGS RAT RACE: ‘Unforgettable’ Rises, ‘Last Man’ Drops, ‘Man Up’ Premiere OK

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday October 19, 2011 @ 9:19am PDTTags: 90210, Body of Proof, Dancing With The Stars, Last Man Standing, Man Up, NCIS, NCIS: LA, Parenthood, Ratings Rat Race, Ringer, The Biggest Loser, The X Factor, TV Ratings, Unforgettable
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Is this the news CBS needed to give rookie Unforgettable a back order? After inching down the past few weeks, the freshman procedural last night reversed the ratings trend with a 9% bump in adults 18-49 to a 2.5/6. Its lead-in NCIS: LA (3.3/8, 15.3 million) was flat, while NCIS (3.8/10, 19 million) was down a tenth from last week’s fast national and tied Fox’s The X Factor as the highest-rated program of the night in 18-49. (It won outright in total viewers.) CBS (3.2/8, 15.4 million) was second for the night in 18-49 and No. 1 in total viewers. Read More »

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RATINGS RAT RACE: ‘Loser’ Hits Fall Low, ‘Body Of Proof’ Rises, CW Dramas Drop

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday October 5, 2011 @ 9:21am PDTTags: 90210, Body of Proof, Dancing With The Stars, Glee, NCIS, NCIS: LA, New Girl, Parenthood, Raising Hope, Ratings Rat Race, Ringer, The Biggest Loser, TV Ratings, Unforgettable
Nellie Andreeva

It seems like most of the TV action last night was on TNT and TBS, which carried the baseball playoffs. The Big 4 broadcast networks didn’t deliver any major ratings bombshells this morning, with most series down just a notch from last week — a possible effect from baseball — … Read More »

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RATINGS RAT RACE: ‘New Girl’ Tops Night Again; ‘Unforgettable’, ‘Body Of Proof’ Slide

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday September 28, 2011 @ 9:03am PDTTags: 90210, Body of Proof, Dancing With The Stars, Glee, NCIS, NCIS: LA, New Girl, Parenthood, Raising Hope, Ratings Rat Race, Ringer, The Biggest Loser, TV Ratings, Unforgettable
Nellie Andreeva

Its big premiere was not a fluke as Fox’s New Girl cemented its status of a breakout hit with a very strong Week 2 showing. The comedy starring Zooey Deschanel (4.4/11 in adults 18-49) was down only 6% from the fast national demo rating for its debut last week. (Along with Glee, New Girl will probably be adjusted up in the finals like last week, so a fast nationals-to-fast nationals comparison is more accurate.) For a second consecutive week, New Girl was the top program of the night in 18-49, and for a second straight week it built onto its Glee lead-in. The high school musical dramedy (3.6/10) was down 5% from its fast national last week. New Girl‘s lead-out, sophomore comedy Raising Hope (2.9/7), was down 6% from last week’s season premiere, holding onto a so-so 66% of the big New Girl numbers. Fox (3.6/9, 8.1 million) was No. 1 in 18-49 for a second week in a row.

CBS’ NCIS franchise continues its impressive fall run. At 8 PM, the mothership series (4.2/12, 19.2 million), which is in its ninth season, didn’t skip a beat, matching its fast national rating from the season premiere last week. (It too was adjusted up in the finals.) For a second straight week, NCIS topped time-slot rival Glee in 18-49 and was the most watched program of the night. NCIS: LA (3.5/9, 16.1 million) was down a tenth in the demo week-to-week. But new procedural Unforgettable (2.5/8, 12.3 million) couldn’t keep up, dropping 14% from its debut. It still won the 10 PM hour, but Unforgettable is already approaching the ratings levels of the series it replaced, The Good Wife, and the question is whether the show will continue to slide before bottoming out. CBS (3.4/9, 15.9 million) won the night in total viewers and was second to Fox in 18-49. Read More »

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RATINGS RAT RACE: ‘New Girl’ Opens Big, Tops Night, ‘Unforgettable’ Debut Solid

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday September 21, 2011 @ 8:32am PDTTags: Body of Proof, Dancing With The Stars, Glee, NCIS, NCIS: LA, New Girl, Parenthood, Ratings Rat Race, Ringer, The Biggest Loser, TV Ratings, Unforgettable
Nellie Andreeva

ANALYSIS: Behind ‘New Girl’s Surprisingly Big Opening And The iTunes Experiment
We may have the first breakout hit of the season. Fox’s quirky new comedy New Girl far exceeded ratings expectations with a huge debut, drawing a 4.7 rating/12 share among adults 18-49 to rank as the top program of the night by a wide margin. (UPDATE 9:15 AM: In the time-zone-adjusted Nielsen numbers just released by Fox, New Girl‘s premiere climbed to a 4.8/12.) In total viewers, the comedy starring Zooey Deschanel averaged 10.1 million viewers. Compared with the series premiere of Raising Hope in the same slot last fall, New Girl was up 52%. It posted Fox’s highest-rated live-action fall comedy debut in a decade, since Bernie Mac (5.7/14) in 2001. It even eclipsed the premiere of TV’s highest-rated comedy at the moment, ABC’s Modern Family, which opened with a 4.3 demo rating in 2009. It also paced Fox (3.9/10, 8.7 million) to a nightly win in the 18-49 demo. That is a nice validation for Fox’s marketing team, whose controversial decision to make the show’s pilot available on iTunes and VOD before the premiere raised concerns that the exposure might hurt ratings for the opener. (Unofficial estimates peg the number of streams at about 2 million.) New Girl also shot up from its lead-in, Glee (3.8/11, 8.9 million), whose third-season premiere was down sharply from the big Season 2 opener, by 31%. (All comparisons in this story are fast nationals to fast nationals. UPDATE 9:15 AM: In the time-adjusted numbers, the Glee premiere rose to a 4.0/11.) Following New Girl, the second season of Raising Hope (3.1/8, 6.9 million) was even in the demo with its premiere last fall when it followed Glee. Read More »

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TNT’s ‘Franklin & Bash’ Off To Soft Ratings Start And Other TV News

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday June 2, 2011 @ 1:51pm PDTTags: Cable Ratings, CMT, Franklin & Bash, Men of a Certain Age, NBC, The Biggest Loser, TNT
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TNT’s new legal dramedy Franklin & Bash premiered with 2.7 million viewers last night, 1.1 million of them in the 18-49 demographic. That is a tad higher than the premiere of Season 2 (and first on TNT) of critical darling … Read More »

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‘The Biggest Loser’ Co-Producer 3 Ball Prods. Suspended From Hit NBC Series

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday June 1, 2011 @ 6:04pm PDTTags: Reveille, The Biggest Loser
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EXCLUSIVE: NBC’s weight-loss reality series The Biggest Loser will be going into its upcoming 12th season without co-producing company 3 Ball Prods., which has been suspended from the show. J.D. Roth and Todd Nelson’s 3 Ball was brought in by … Read More »

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RATINGS RAT RACE: ‘Dancing’ Finale Up, ‘Idol’ Slightly Down From Last Spring

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday May 25, 2011 @ 10:26am PDTTags: American Idol, Dancing With The Stars, Glee, Ratings Rat Race, The Biggest Loser, The Voice, TV Ratings
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The two biggest reality series on TV, Fox’s American Idol and ABC’s Dancing With the Stars, carefully choreographed their finales last night with no overlap, while NBC’s The Voice got its first taste of what is in store for next season when it scheduled to air against Dancing on Mondays. The hourlong performance finale of American Idol (6.2/18, 20 million viewers) was down 6% from the fast national result for the comparable show last spring. (Because of Idol‘s regular gain in the finals, this is an apples-to-apples comparison.) The drop is far more modest than the 23% year-to-year dive Idol’s performance finale took last May. In total viewers, Idol was even with last year’s show. But vs. last week’s Top 3 performance episode, Idol was down 14% in the demo (fast nationals to fast nationals). At 9 PM, the season finale of Glee (4.6/11) was down 4% from the episode, which aired after the final Idol performance show. (This is also a fast nationals-to-fast national comparison as the post-Idol shows are often adjusted down in the finals.) But it was on par (-2%) with its season finale last year, which aired in June, and vs. last week, when Glee aired in its regular Tuesday 8 PM slot, the dramedy was up 28%. Idol and Glee finished as the two top programs of the night in 18-49, leading Fox (5.4/15, 16 million) to victory in the demo. Read More »

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Jillian Michaels’ Next Gig: Co-Host On ‘The Doctors’ And Correspondent On ‘Dr. Phil’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday May 6, 2011 @ 11:09am PDTTags: CBS TV Distribution, Jillian Michaels, Syndication, The Biggest Loser
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EXCLUSIVE: Is fitness guru Jillian Michaels the next daytime talk show star? The popular Biggest Loser trainer has signed a multi-year deal to join the daytime syndicated talk show The Doctors as a co-host next season. Additionally, she will serve as a special correspondent on Dr. Phil. Both talk shows are distributed by CBS TV Distribution and executive produced by Phil McGraw. When she announced in December that she would leave The Biggest Loser after the current 11th season, Michaels tweeted that she was planning to “focus on becoming a mommy.” While that is still very much in the cards, Michaels said that she had been open to doing something in the daytime space. Since announcing her exit from Loser, she fielded multiple job offers but immediately sparked to the idea of joining The Doctors, created and exec produced by Jay McGraw, as well as Dr. Phil. “This was an opportunity to do something that I love and help so many people, so I couldn’t possibly pass it up,” said Michaels, who has appeared about a dozen times on The Doctors in the past three seasons. She also relishes the opportunity for “people to see the 360-degree version of me” vs. the somewhat “caricature” character that she plays on Loser, where she is known for being very tough on the contestants. “I will still take a tough-love approach when necessary, but this is a platform that will allow me to have a direct connection with the viewers and provide them with information, motivation and support.” Also appealing to Michaels was the chance to work with Phil McGraw, whom she called “the ultimate mentor” in daytime, especially with Oprah Winfrey leaving the arena later this month. While The Doctors started off as a show for advice from medical professionals, it has evolved, and recruiting Michaels is part of that, Jay McGraw said. “We’re broadening the type of information we are going to provide to viewers,” he said. “Jillian is the best at what she does and has the ability to form an incredible bond with the viewers.” Here is the release announcing Michaels’ new jobs: Read More »

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RATINGS RAT RACE: Solid Premiere For ABC’s ‘Body Of Proof’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday March 30, 2011 @ 9:34am PDTTags: Body of Proof, Dancing With The Stars, NCIS, NCIS:LA, Parenthood, Ratings Rat Race, The Biggest Loser, The Good Wife, Traffic Light
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ABC’s midseason drama Body of Proof, starring Dana Delany, got off to a promising start last night with a 3.0/8 fast-national rating in adults 18-49 and 13.9 million viewers. It dominated the 10 PM hour against original competition, pushing CBS’ The Good Wife (1.9/5, 10 million) to a season low in the demo. NBC’s Parenthood (1.9/5, 4.8 million) was flat. Body of Proof qualifies as TV’s second-most-watched series premiere this season behind CBS’ Hawaii Five-0 and ABC’s second-highest-rated premiere in 18-49 behind No Ordinary Family. At ABC, which has been struggling to launch a successful drama series in the past few years, Body of Proof was most watched midseason drama debut in four years and the top rated among 18-49 in two years. Body of Proof benefited from a strong lead-in, Dancing with the Stars‘ first result show this cycle (4.2/11, 18.8 million), which was down 5% from the corresponding show in the fall but up sharply (40% in 18-49, 31% in viewers) from the results premiere last year to rank as the top program of the night. Body of Proof’s numbers may have been inflated a bit from a Dancing overrun, so its performance will be more properly judged when final ratings are released later today. ABC, which opened with a Dancing recap (2.7/8, 12.7 million), won the night in 18-49 (3.3/9, 15.1 million), edging traditional Tuesday ratings victor CBS (3.1/8, 14.5 million with an all-original lineup). Read More »

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RATINGS RAT RACE: ‘NCIS’ Tops, ‘No Ordinary Family’ Up

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday March 23, 2011 @ 10:20am PDTTags: NCIS, NCIS:LA, No Ordinary Family, Ratings Rat Race, The Biggest Loser, The Good Wife, Traffic Light
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With Fox’s Glee in repeat, CBS’ NCIS (3.8/12 in adults 18-49, 19.1 million viewers) easily ruled the primetime roost last night, ranking as the top program in the demo and total viewers. It was flat vs. its most recent original March 1. Ditto for NCIS: LA (3.2/9, 16.5 million), while … Read More »

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RATINGS RAT RACE: ‘Raising Hope’ Gets Post-’Idol’ Bump, ‘Traffic Light’ Doesn’t

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday March 9, 2011 @ 9:31am PSTTags: ABC Ratings, Biggest Loser, CBS Ratings, Fox Ratings, Glee, Gwyneth Paltrow Glee, NBC Ratings, NCIS Ratings, Raising Hope, The Biggest Loser, Traffic Light, TV, TV Ratings, V
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Gwyneth Paltrow returned to Glee last night, and the Fox dramedy (4.6/14 in adults 18-49, 12 million viewers) went up 5% in the ratings from its most recent original 2 weeks ago. After finishing tied for first place in 18-49 … Read More »

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NBC Announces Season Finale Dates

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday March 8, 2011 @ 11:29am PSTTags: Chuck, Harry's law, NBC Outsourced, NBC Perfect Couples, NBC Scheduling, The Biggest Loser, The Event, TV, TV Scheduling
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NBC just released the dates for the season finales of its series. The way some of them are floundering (The Event, Chuck, Outsourced, Perfect Couples), those may as well be series finales. Three of the network’s comedies, flagship The Office, Parks & Recreation and Community, will have hourlong closers.  Here is the list, from the newest drama, Harry’s Law, on Apr. 4 to the oldest reality series, The Biggest Loser, on April 24: Read More »

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NBC Renews Reality Series ‘Biggest Loser’, ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’ & ‘Sing-Off’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday February 22, 2011 @ 2:30pm PSTTags: Bob Greenblatt, Minute to Win It, NBC Renewals, The Biggest Loser, The Sing-Off, TV, TV Deals, Who Do You Think You Are?
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NBC has renewed three reality series: veteran The Biggest Loser, the Lisa Kudrow-produced docu  Who Do You Think You Are? and singing competition series The Sing-Off. “Alternative series such as these three bona fide hits are important not only to … Read More »

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RATINGS RAT RACE: NBC Tops State Of The Union Tuesday With ‘Loser’, CW Shows Back

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday January 26, 2011 @ 9:49am PSTTags: CBS Ratings, CW Ratings, Hellcats, Life Unexpected, NBC Ratings, One Tree Hill, State of the Union Broadcast, The Biggest Loser, TV, TV Ratings
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The coverage of President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address was the main attraction on the Big 4 networks last night, which also marked the return to originals for the CW’s series after a long winter hiatus … Read More »

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RATINGS RAT RACE: CBS Wins, ‘LUX’ Exits

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday January 19, 2011 @ 9:12am PSTTags: ABC Ratings, CBS Ratings, CBS The Good Wife, CW Ratings, Fox American Idol, Life Unexpected, NBC Ratings, NCIS, Ratings Rat Race, The Biggest Loser, TV, TV Ratings
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The quiet before the storm. Not a whole lot happened last night ratings-wise as the networks are focusing on tonight’s return of Fox’s American Idol. CBS (3.2/9 in 18-49, 16.5 million) was once again the top network for the night, … Read More »

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RATINGS RAT RACE: NBC Wins With ‘Biggest Loser’ And ‘Parenthood’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday January 5, 2011 @ 10:18am PSTTags: ABC Ratings, CBS Ratings, Live to Dance, Million Dollar Money Drop, NBC Ratings, No Ordinary Family, Parenthood, Ratings Rat Race, The Biggest Loser, The Biggest Loser: Couples, The Good Wife, TV, TV Ratings
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Despite built-up anticipation, it was a ho-hum night last night, with no shows breaking out, no shows tanking big time and  NBC’s The Biggest Loser and CBS’ Live to Dance splitting the bragging rights from 8-10 PM. Several series were down though, led by Fox’s Million Dollar Money Drop (1.3/3 … Read More »

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RATINGS RAT RACE: NBC Posts First Non-Sunday Demo Win With ‘Loser’ Finale

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday December 15, 2010 @ 9:19am PSTTags: ABC Ratings, CBS Ratings, Minute to Win It, NBC Ratings, NCIS, Ratings Rat Race, The Biggest Loser, The Good Wife, TV, TV Ratings
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After hitting a series low earlier in the fall, NBC’s The Biggest Loser gradually found its groove, especially after shifting to the 9-11 PM time period 3 weeks ago. The season finale of the veteran reality series last night hit … Read More »

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Jillian Michaels To Leave ‘Biggest Loser’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday December 10, 2010 @ 11:35am PSTTags: Jillian Michaels, The Biggest Loser, TV
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The Biggest Loser trainer Jillian Michaels announced that she will leave the veteran NBC reality series after the upcoming 11th season, now in production. “Season 11 of Biggest Loser will be my last :) have to finish out my contract,” … Read More »

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