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RATINGS RAT RACE: Canceled Freshmen ‘The Event’ & ‘Chicago Code’ Rise In Finales

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday May 24, 2011 @ 9:37am PDTTags: Dancing With The Stars, House, Law & Order: Los Angeles, Ratings Rat Race, The Bachelorette, The Chicago Code, The Event, TV Ratings
Nellie Andreeva

These are the type of double-digit ratings gains network executives love to see their series hit in the season finales. Except when ratings don’t matter since the shows have already been canceled. All three recently axed Monday freshman series — NBC’s The Event and Law & Order: Los Angeles and Fox’s The Chicago Code — posted big week-to-week increases last night, which marked the final bow for The Event and Chicago Code and the last in-season episode of LOLA, which will finish its run over the next few weeks. The Event (1.5/4) was up 15% for its highest 18-49 rating since November. LOLA (1.4/5) was up 27%, and The Chicago Code (2.0/5) was up 11%. Meanwhile, returning series were down vs. their previous finales. Fox’s House (3.3/10) was down 23% from its season ender last May. The hourlong performance finale of ABC’s Dancing With the Stars (4.6/13, 22.2 million viewers) held up better, down 6% from the fall performance finale. Versus last spring’s cycle, the Monday Dancing closer was actually up, by 15% in 18-49 and 14% in total viewers, to draw the franchise’s largest audience for a spring performance finale. The premiere of The Bachelorette (2.8/7) was flat with last season’s debut. ABC easily won the night in 18-49 (3.4/9) and total viewers (13.6 million). CBS aired all repeats.

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3RD UPDATE: Fox Cancels Comedies ‘Breaking In’ & ‘Traffic Light’ And Dramas ‘Lie To Me’, ‘Human Target’ & ‘Chicago Code’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday May 10, 2011 @ 7:26pm PDTTags: Breaking In, canceled, Fox, Lie To Me, The Chicago Code, Traffic Light
Nellie Andreeva

UPDATED: Fringe got lucky to score an early renewal because no other bubble show got a reprieve at Fox. The network tonight axed all others: the Tim Roth-starring procedural Lie To Me, sophomore drama Human Target and freshmen The Chicago … Read More »

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RATINGS RAT RACE: CBS Hits Low; ‘Castle’, ‘Chicago Code’ Only Gainers Amid Declines

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday May 10, 2011 @ 10:33am PDTTags: Castle, Chuck, Dancing With The Stars, Hawaii Five-0, House, How I Met Your Mother, Law & Order: LA, Mad Love, Mike & Molly, Ratings Rat Race, The Chicago Code, The Event, TV Ratings
Nellie Andreeva

A competitive NBA playoff game on TNT that went into overtime, Miami vs. Boston, took a toll on the broadcast networks last night, with most series down from last week. The disintegration of CBS’ once-formidable Monday lineup continues. How … Read More »

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Ratings Rat Race: ‘House’, ‘Chicago Code’, ‘Mike & Molly’ & ‘Hawaii Five-0′ Hit Lows

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday May 3, 2011 @ 9:58am PDTTags: Castle, Chuck, Dancing With The Stars, Hawaii Five-0, House, Law & Order: LA, Mad Love, Mike & Molly, Ratings Rat Race, The Chicago Code, The Event, TV Ratings
Nellie Andreeva

CBS has got to fix its Monday 9 PM problem as it is starting to seriously impact the 9:30 PM and 10 PM shows. Last night, freshmen Mike & Molly (2.3/6) at 9:30 PM and Hawaii Five-0 (2.4/6) at 10 … Read More »

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RATINGS RAT RACE: CW Monday Dramas Return Higher, NBC Lineup Hits Season Low

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday April 19, 2011 @ 10:11am PDTTags: 90210, Chuck, Cougar Town, Dancing With The Stars, Gossip Girl, Hawaii Five-0, House, How I Met Your Mother, Law & Order: Los Angeles, Mad Love, Mike & Molly, The Chicago Code, The Event
Nellie Andreeva

It was another sad Monday ratings performance for NBC, which hit another season low on the night with all original programming. Chuck (1.3/4) was even with last week, tying its series low. But it also delivered NBC’s highest demo rating last night. The Event (1.1/3) was down 13% from its last original two weeks ago for a series low. And the relaunch of Law & Order: Los Angeles continues to sputter. In its second week since the series’ return last Monday, the Law & Order spinoff drew a 1.1/3, down a steep 27% from the two-hour midseason premiere last week. Such an underwhelming performance bodes well for David E. Kelley’s Harry’s Law, which did better in the slot earlier this midseason.

ABC’s Dancing With the Stars performance show (3.9/11) was down 13% from last week to rank as the lowest-rated spring performance telecast ever for the venerable reality franchise. In its special airing after Dancing, a new Cougar Town (2.3/6) was down 15% from its last original Feb. 2. Proving that comedy series do better in a block, even with a weaker lead-in, that last original followed a Modern Family repeat. The first of a slew of specials about the upcoming Royal Wedding, ABC News: William & Catherine: A Modern Fairytale, averaged a 1.7/4 at 10 PM. Read More »

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RATINGS RAT RACE: ‘Dancing With The Stars’ Down, Slew Of Shows Hit Lows

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday March 22, 2011 @ 9:14am PDTTags: Castle, Chuck, Dancing With The Stars, Harry's law, Hawaii Five-0, House, How I Met Your Mother, Mike & Molly, Ratings Rat Race, The Chicago Code, The Event, TV Ratings
Nellie Andreeva

The season premiere of ABC’s Dancing with the Stars (5.1/15 in adults 18-49, 22.3 million viewers) was down 20% from the March premiere last year to rank as the show’s lowest-rated spring premiere since Season 2 in 2006. But vs. … Read More »

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RATINGS RAT RACE: ‘The Bachelor’ Finale Down As Most Other Shows Hit Lows

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday March 15, 2011 @ 9:37am PDTTags: ABC, CBS, Chuck, Fox, Harry's law, House, Mad Love, The Bachelor, The Chicago Code, The Event, Two and a Half Men
Nellie Andreeva

ABC dominated the ratings last night with the two-hour season finale of The Bachelor (4.5/12, 13.8 million viewers) and The Bachelor: After the Final Rose special (4.7/12, 13.9 million). Both were down from last spring, the finale by 15% in … Read More »

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VIDEO: Shawn Ryan Gets ‘Arrested’ By FBI

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday March 8, 2011 @ 3:09pm PSTTags: Shawn Ryan, The Chicago Code, Twitter, White Collar
Nellie Andreeva

Visitors at the Beverly Glen Deli in Los Angeles today were surprised when an FBI agent walked in and handcuffed a patron eating lunch there. Turns out it was White Collar star Tim DeKay in an FBI uniform fake arresting … Read More »

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RATINGS RAT RACE: ‘Event’ Down In Return

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday March 8, 2011 @ 9:52am PSTTags: ABC Ratings, CBS Mad Love, CBS Ratings, Fox Ratings, Harry's law Ratings, NBC Ratings, Ratings Rat Race, The Chicago Code, TV, TV Ratings, Two and a Half Men
Nellie Andreeva

Fox was onto something when it scheduled serialized drama 24 like a reality series, airing it over a half-season with no breaks, a model that was subsequently adopted by another successful serialized drama, ABC’s Lost. How damaging are long hiatuses for serialized dramas? Look at NBC’s Heroes, which quickly ran … Read More »

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Ratings Rat Race: ‘Men’ Tops, ‘Mike & Molly’ Pops, ‘Mad Love’ Slow, ‘Chicago Code’ Down

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday February 15, 2011 @ 9:22am PSTTags: ABC Ratings, Castle, CBS Ratings, Chuck, Fox Ratings, Harry's law, Mad Love, Mike & Molly, NBC Ratings, Ratings Rat Race, Rules of Engagement, The Bachelor, The Cape, The Chicago Code, TV, TV Ratings, Two and a Half Men
Nellie Andreeva

Most programs were down last night, as overall TV viewership was impacted by the Valentine’s Day holiday. (Adult 18-49 TV usage was off by 6% from last week.) Most affected was Fox, which had gotten a post-Super Bowl boost last … Read More »

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RATINGS RAT RACE: So-So Start For ‘Chicago Code’, ‘Harry’s Law’ Down

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday February 8, 2011 @ 9:33am PSTTags: ABC Ratings, CBS Ratings, David E. Kelly, Fox Ratings, Harry's law, Mike & Molly, NBC Ratings, Ratings Rat Race, The Bachelor, The Cape, The Chicago Code, TV, TV Ratings, Two and a Half Men
Nellie Andreeva

First, the good news. In its premiere last night, midseason Fox drama The Chicago Code (2.4/6 in 18-49, 9.4 million) did far better than the network’s other new drama this season, Lone Star, did in its debut in the … Read More »

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No Back 9 Order For Fox’s ‘Lie To Me’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday December 7, 2010 @ 1:19pm PSTTags: Fox Midseason Schedule, Fox Scheduling, Lie To Me, The Chicago Code, Tim Roth, TV
Nellie Andreeva

Fox will not be giving a back-nine order to crime procedural Lie to Me, whose current third season will consist of 13 episodes.  Sources at the network stress that the show has not been canceled, with final decision expected to … Read More »

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Midseason Show News: New Name For Fox’s ‘Ride-Along’, More Scripts For ABC’s ‘Map’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday October 26, 2010 @ 4:17pm PDTTags: Fox, Jenna Bans, Off the Map, Ride-Along, Shawn Ryan, Shawn Ryan Chicago Cop Show, Shawn Ryan The Chicago Code, The Chicago Code, TV, TV Deals
Nellie Andreeva

UPDATE: Here is what Shawn Ryan just said about the name change of his new Fox series: ”Changing the title from Ride-Along to THE CHICAGO CODE reflects our belief that this is more than just a cop show.  It’s not just about the police, … Read More »

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