Girls’ Night Out: ‘Angels,’ ‘Whitney,’ and Bello Bow
When casting around for a single word to characterize the new TV season, one could do a lot worse than the millennial interjection “meh.” But for a pair of comedies and a few dramas, the fall schedule...
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TV Deathwatch: Could NBC's ‘Free Agents,’ ‘The Playboy Club’ Be Fall's First...
A mere two weeks into the fall TV season and it appears that NBC may have two dead series on its hands. According to final Nielsen live-plus-same-day data, NBC’s new Wednesday night sitcom Free Agents...
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Funny Young Things Prove Fall Darlings
If comedy hasn’t exactly returned to the halcyon days of the mid-1990s, when NBC’s Thursday night lineup pulled so much weight that mediocrities such as Veronica’s Closet and Caroline in the City...
View ArticleWomen Rock Prime Time
If TV seasons had theme songs, the anthem for 2011-12 should be Queen Latifah’s “Ladies First.” According to Nielsen, 15 of the 19 new broadcast TV series that bowed between Sept. 13 and Sept. 28 are...
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NBC Kills Off ‘The Playboy Club’
The ears weren’t the only things that flopped at The Playboy Club, as three weeks of poor deliveries have doomed NBC’s much-ballyhooed fall drama. The first new series of the 2011-12 season to get the...
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Information Diet: Maulik Pancholy
What’s the first information you consume in the morning? I use my iPhone as an alarm, so when it goes off, I pick it up and casually scroll through whatever emails may have come in while I was asleep....
View ArticleMidseason Mucker: '¡Rob!' Sizzles, 'The Finder' Fizzles
Viewers largely turned their noses up at this week’s menu of midseason premieres, although the overnights for the new CBS comedy ¡Rob! were promising. According to Nielsen preliminary data, the Rob...
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Despite Declines, ‘American Idol’ Remains Dominant
Season 11 of American Idol got off to a somewhat rocky start as the two-hour premiere failed to live up to last year’s debut. According to Nielsen live-plus-same day data, the season opener averaged...
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NBC Plays Musical Chairs With Winter Schedule
NBC has set premiere dates for the last of its 2011-12 slate, carving out time for two new sitcoms and a hidden-camera series starring Betty White. The Amanda Peet vehicle, Bent, bows Wednesday, March...
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'Bent' Out of Shape
NBC night found very little to laugh about Wednesday, as the network’s newest comedy offering debuted to historically poor ratings. The premiere of Bent averaged just 2.75 million viewers and a 1.0 in...
View ArticleNBC Announces Fall Schedule
NBC has doubled down on its franchise musical-competition series and scripted comedy, planning fall and spring cycles of The Voice and sprinkling sitcoms across four nights. In a Sunday conference...
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Fuhgeddaboudit: CBS Cancels Made in Jersey
CBS announced today that it has pulled the plug on its Friday night legal drama Made In Jersey, making it the first casualty of the fall TV season. After premiering Sept. 28 to just 7.82 million...
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NBC Puts Animal Practice to Sleep
NBC has euthanized Animal Practice. Effective Nov. 14, the freshman comedy, which stars Justin Kirk (Weeds) and Crystal the capuchin monkey (The Hangover), will be pulled out of NBC’s Wednesday night...
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They Took My Show Away!
On the eve of the broadcast upfronts, fans of network television would do well to recall the lessons of the classic Late Night With David Letterman bit, “They Took My Show Away.” A series of...
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NBC’s Go On Will Not
The ax continues to fall at NBC, which over the last several hours has severed ties with three of the four freshman comedies that were still in contention for a slot on the 2013-14 schedule. While it...
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