Is Brian Williams Angry with NBC Over Rock Center's Scheduling Changes?
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- Metascore64
- 2011-2013
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- Metascore64
- 2011-2013
- 2 seasons
- NBC
- News
Ratings: Idol Boosts Glee; 30 Rock Hits Season High
Fox won Thursday, as American Idol gave Glee a big boost.Idol earned 15.5 million viewers and a 5.1 in the adults 18-to-49 demographic, down five-tenths from last ...
Ratings: Idol's Night 2 Steady; Parks and Recreation Rises
American Idol's Thursday debut held steady with last year's numbers.After posting its lowest regular-season premiere ever, Idol pulled in 16.2 million viewers and a 5.6 in the adults 18-to-49 demographic, down just a tenth from last year's Night 2 bow. The episode slipped just ...
Ratings: Big Bang, Scandal Rise to New Highs
The Big Bang Theory and Scandal soared to series highs Thursday.Despite returning competition, Big Bang drew 20 million total viewers and a 6.3 in the 18-to-49 demographic, rising two-tenths ...
Ratings: X Factor Finale Drops, But Wins Night
The X Factor Season 2 finale topped Thursday, but dropped significantly from last year.The two-hour closer averaged 9.6 million viewers and a 3.1 in the adults 18-to-49 demographic, down 18 percent from the inaugural finale last December. However, the Fox series posted ...
Ratings: Two and a Half Men, Scandal and 30 Rock Hit Highs
Sorry, Angus. People are still watching Two and a Half Men.Days after a video surfaced of Angus T. Jones calling his hit sitcom "filth" and urging fans not to watch it, Men matched its season high Thursday with 13.8 million viewers and a 4.1 in the adults 18-to-49 demographic. Men was the only show of CBS' lineup not to dip. The Big Bang Theory (17.1 million, 5.4) was still the night's ...
Ratings: Big Bang Jumps to Series High, While The Office Ties a Series Low
The Big Bang Theory really is bigger than ever.The CBS hit surged to an all-time high audience of 17.4 million viewers and a season-high 5.5 in the adults 18-to-49 demographic Thursday. That boosted lead-outs Two and a Half Men (13.9 million, 4.1) and Person of Interest (14.5 million, 3.1) to season highs in their ...
Ratings: Big Bang, Men, The Office Reach Highs
Bazinga indeed!The Big Bang Theory matched a series viewership high Thursday with 16.5 million viewers and a 5.0 rating in the adults 18-to-49 demographic. Lead-out Two and a Half Men (14.1 million, 4.0) benefited greatly, reaching season highs in both measures.Person of Interest followed with 14.7 million viewers and a 2.9, staying even, while Elementary (10.7 million, 2.2) slid ...
Ratings: CMA Awards Fall; Big Bang, Vampire Diaries Up
ABC topped Thursday with the 46th Annual Country Music Awards, though the ceremony dropped sharply from last year.The three-hour show delivered 13.4 million viewers and a 3.8 in the adults 18-to-49 demographic, down 21 percent from last year's Wednesday broadcast.10 Bubble Shows: Which will survive?CBS' The Big Bang Theory (15.6 million, 5.1) was the top show of the night, rising a tenth. Two and a Half Men followed with 13.1 million viewers and a 3.6, down ...
Ratings: Which Show Toppled Grey's Anatomy?
Lots of people are still interested in CBS' Person of Interest.Despite competing against the World Series and the usual Thursday-night fare, the CBS drama drew 14 million viewers and rose 7 percent in the adults-18-to-49 demographic to score a 3.0, according to early Nielsen numbers. That was good enough to beat out ABC's Grey's Anatomy, which was down 12 and 15 percent, respectively, to 8.5 million viewers and a 2.9 in the demo.10 Bubble Shows: Which will survive?Coupling Person's good night ...
Ratings: Big Bang, Two and a Half Men Rise
CBS topped Thursday with The Big Bang Theory and Two and a Half Men both posting gains.Big Bang was the top show of the night with 15.4 million viewers and a 4.7 in the adults 18-to-49 demographic, rising 4 percent. Men, which featured Miley Cyrus, drew 13.6 million viewers and a 4.0, up 14 percent from last week. Person of Interest (13.8 million, 2.8) and Elementary (10.8 million, 2.3) both slipped two-tenths.Vote: Which fall premieres won you over? Which flopped?Also improving ...
Ratings: 30 Rock Returns Low, But Which Shows Grew?
The Big Bang Theory claimed another victory Thursday, while 30 Rock kicked off its final season on a low note.Leading off NBC's night, 30 Rock nabbed 3.4 million viewers and a 1.3 in the adults 18-to-49 demographic, off of what Community's season premiere (3.9 million, 1.7) delivered in the slot last year. Up All Night (3.1 million, 1.4) and The Office (4.1 million, 2.1) held steady, while ...
Ratings: Elementary Strong, Last Resort OK in Debuts
There's nothing suspect about Elementary's premiere numbers. The CBS drama opened big Thursday, bowing to 13.2 million viewers and a 3.1 in the adults 18-to-49 demographic, winning the 10 p.m. hour in both measures. The Sherlock Holmes update also built on lead-in ...
Ratings: NBC Comedies Fall; X Factor Rises Again
Thursday night was no laughing matter for NBC.The network's comedy lineup premieres were down across the board, averaging 4 million viewers and a 1.5 rating in the adults 18-to-49 demographic for the night.Saturday Night Live's Thursday prime-time special opened the night with 5.2 million viewers and a 1.6, sliding 69 ...
Ratings: Glee Premieres OK, X Factor Dips
Glee got off to a decent start in its new Thursday timeslot, but it was off from its Season 3 premiere.Season 4 bowed to 8.1 million viewers and a 3.3 rating in the adults 18-to-49 demographic, down from last year's 9.2 million and 4.0 on a Tuesday. Glee, however, was the top-rated show ...
Ratings: The Choice Opens Modestly, Beats Saving Hope
They aren't Voice-like numbers, but The Choice was the highest-rated new series on Thursday.Summer TV: Get the scoop on all the new showsThe Fox dating series bowed to 4.2 million viewers and a 1.7 in the adults 18-to-49 demographic to win the 9 o'clock hour against Duets, which averaged ...
NBC’s New Fall Schedule: The Voice Back in the Fall, Moves Community to Fridays
NBC is betting big on The Voice. The network will begin airing two cycles of the singing competition series starting this fall, when it will return to its Monday at 8/7c timeslot. The Voice's longtime Monday companion, Smash, is being held to midseason. Fall TV scorecard: Which shows are returning? Which aren't? The peacock network is also putting its support behind comedies this season, with sitcoms scheduled on four of five weekday nights. Two returning laughers, Community and Whitney, have been moved to Friday to make room for the four new series. Check out NBC's full fall schedule for the 2012-2013 season below...
Is Law & Order: SVU Returning Next Year?
Warren Leight joined Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as its showrunner just before star Christopher Meloni jumped ship. It was a particularly dismal time for NBC. Nobody would blame Leight if he wanted out of the long-running procedural after just one season. But it seems the opposite is true. "I don't want it to be a victory lap," Leight tells TVGuide.com of a possible Season 14. "I want it to be 14 years down, seven to go, as opposed to 14 years down and it's been a good run." The current season of SVU hasn't been its strongest, but it has perhaps been its most interesting. After the exits of Meloni and longtime showrunner Neal Baer, ratings have dropped (6.9 million/1.9 average versus last season's 8.8 million/2.7) and with little help from its lead-in, the struggling Rock Center with Brian Williams. But ratings don't tell the whole story. "I get so tired of people saying that the show is down from Meloni," Leight says...
Ratings: Apartment 23, SVU Improve; Idol on Top
James Van Der Beek had a pretty good Wednesday night.His sitcom Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23 rebounded from a season low to 5.9 million viewers and a 2.4 in ...
Ratings: Revenge Returns Steady; SVU Drops to Series Low
A seven-week hiatus didn't hurt Revenge much.The ABC drama returned Wednesday to 7.58 million viewers and a 2.3 in the adults 18-to-49 demographic, on par with its last new episode on Feb. 29. That was enough to win the 10 o'clock hour for ABC against a CSI repeat ...
Ask Matt: Grey's, Once Upon a Time, Southland, Fringe, HBO's Comedies
Send questions and comments to askmatt@tvguidemagazine.com and follow me on Twitter! Question: I would love to know your thoughts on the Cristina/Owen storyline at this point in the season of Grey's Anatomy. It goes without saying that Sandra Oh and Kevin McKidd have been absolutely flawless and incredible in acting out their scenes together, particularly in last week's episode. However, do you think this is a case where the acting outshines and elevates the writing for the most part and makes it more nuanced that what is on the page of the script? While I enjoy watching Sandra and Kevin act opposite one another and while I will always root for Cristina/Owen to work it out in spite of their endless issues and this endless storyline, I feel that the writing has not been serving them or the characters we have come to know.
Ratings: NBC Comedies Fall; Idol Rises
Bent is still in bad shape.After premiering to dismal ratings last week, the Amanda Peet comedy dipped ...
Ratings: Jermaine Jones' DQ Doesn't Boost Idol's Numbers
Whether or not Jermaine Jones' American Idol disqualification was a ratings ploy all along, it didn't do much to lift the show's numbers.Wednesday's two-hour episode — which teased Jones' dismissal for concealing a criminal past at the start before showing the pre-taped footage more than an hour later — drew 17.9 million viewers and ...
Ratings: Idol Dominates; Survivor Hits Season High
With little competition, American Idol's Top 13 performance show ruled Wednesday night.The two-hour episode garnered 18.5 million viewers ...
Ratings: Idol Drops Slightly; ABC Comedies Up
American Idol's ladies weren't too far off of the boys' performance — ratings-wise, that is.Idol's female semifinalists performance show won Wednesday for Fox with 17 million viewers and a 4.9 in the adults 18-to-49 demo — a tenth below Tuesday's rating. The ladies, however, managed to lure about a million more viewers than the guys did. Compared to last week, the demo was also down slightly, but viewership ...
Ratings: American Idol Plunges, But Still Wins; Survivor Hits Series Low
The good news for American Idol? It won Wednesday night. The bad? It suffered another huge drop.The former Fox juggernaut topped the night — which featured Part 1 of its Top 24 reveal — with 15.9 million viewers and a 5.1 rating in the adults 18-to-49 demo, but was ...
NBC Sets Community Return Date, Premieres for Bent, Best Friends Forever
The darkest timeline is over: Community will return on Thursday, March 15, NBC announced Tuesday.In addition, the network announced premiere dates for midseason shows Bent, Best Friends Forever and Betty White's Off Their Rockers.Off the schedule since December, Community will re-inherit its 8/7c slot from 30 Rock, which will shift to 8:30/7:30c, followed ...
Ratings: CSI Rises on a Night of Lows
No Grissom and no Willows? No problem for CSI. The veteran drama was one of two shows Wednesday to see a ratings bump, when it introduced Elisabeth Shue's Julie "Finn" Finlay, pulling in 11.1 million viewers and a 2.7 rating in the adults 18-to-49 demo (up 2 and 8 percent, respectively).The other show to enjoy a gain? ...
Ratings: American Idol Holds Steady in Demo
Those writing about the inexorably declining ratings of American Idol will have to stand down for at least a day as the amateur talent competition stayed even with last week in the industry-prized 18-to-49 demographic, according to preliminary Nielsen figures. Now, we'll have to see if the cliff-hanger involving the hopeful who fainted and fell off the stage gooses the ratings for Fox. (By comparison, fair or not, NBC's The Voice grabbed 17.69 million viewers with a 6.6 demo rating Monday night on its first regularly scheduled airing.)
Wednesday TV Overview: SVU, Idol Goes to Hollywood, Revenge Is Back, and More
One of the better things about a good episode of NBC's stalwart Law & Order: Special Victims Unit is that you can rarely tell where it's headed. Is tonight's cameo-heavy hour (10/9c) the latest condemnation of reality TV's sordid excesses? Sure looks that way at the start, as we encounter an especially slimy Michael McKean (relishing his repulsiveness) as the predatory producer of a crap-tastic train wreck titled Showgirls, featuring young hopefuls who would do "whatever it takes" to land the starring role in a Broadway musical. (No small irony this is airing the week of the all-important-to-NBC Smash premiere, where such things could never happen!) As he liquors up a nervous contestant for her "audition," he leers for her to "seduce the audience. Let them know you want this." Doesn't take a genius to know where this is going.
Ratings: Smash Opens Strong, The Voice Doesn't Falter
Smash lived up to its title, winning the final hour of Monday's prime time, and fresh off The Voice's Season 2 debut after the Super Bowl, it posted formidable numbers, making for a huge night for NBC.
Ratings: Alcatraz Has a Solid Showing in Week 2
Alcatraz — which last week made Fox's strongest dramatic series debut in three years — didn't have too many escapees, losing just about 10 percent of its audience in its second week, according to Nielsen overnights. It also fell just to 3.0 from 3.3 among 18-to-49-year-olds from the two-hour debut — making it the season's third new drama series to post a rating of at least a 3.0 in its second week (after Terra Nova and Once Upon a Time).
Ratings: Betty White Wins the Night!
Four words: The indomitable Betty White.
Ratings: Downton Abbey Debuts Strong; The Bachelor Down Again
What's this?!? There is some accounting for taste?!? Downton Abbey's Season 2 premiere averaged 4.2 million viewers. Nielsen data on Tuesday showed that the Emmy-winning series' return Sunday night doubled the average PBS prime-time rating, and marked an 18 percent jump over the show's first-season average — which made PBS ecstatic.
Critic's Guide to Monday TV: Fear Factor, a Hawaii Five-0 Wedding and More!
On the 12th day of December, with only 12 days (gulp) until Christmas Eve, here's a dozen topics of interest — or possibly disinterest — regarding today's unusually busy, for mid-December, TV lineup.Mother's Day: On CBS's biggest Monday hit, Two and a Half Men (9/8c), Mimi Rogers drops by the Malibu manse as Walden's mom. Alan, naturally, is smitten (ewwww), but in the opposite-of-nurturing tradition of mothers ...
The Sing-Off Finale Plummets While CBS Reruns Rule
The two-hour finale of The Sing-Off plummeted 37 percent in the coveted demo from a year ago and some 20 percent in viewership. Instead, people got into the holiday spirit by watching the umpteenth showings of Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas and Shrek the Halls on ABC in the first hour of Cyber Monday's prime time.
Dancing Performance Finale Skids to an All-Time Low
Down to the last three contestants, Dancing with the Stars attracted 20.04 million viewers but hit an all-time low in the industry-prized demo for a final performance program, scoring a 3.6 rating among 18-to-49-year-olds, preliminary Nielsen data shows.
Rock Center Gets Big Story, Ratings Boost
The newest show with the smallest audience in the Monday-at-10/9c time slot made the biggest news — and got a ratings boost. In its third week on the air, Rock Center with Brian Williams scored its first big "get" as Bob Costas interviewed former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky about the child sexual abuse allegations against him, attracting 4.49 million viewers and posting a 1.3 rating among 18-to-49-year-olds — a 30 percent increase in the demo. It also marked the newsmagazine's biggest viewership yet, though that bar is low with audiences of 3.51 million and 4.13 million in its first two weeks.
Jerry Sandusky Denies Sexual Abuse Charges, Says He's "Horsed Around With Kids"
Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, who faces 40 counts of sexual abuse of young boys, denies that he committed any crimes, but acknowledges that he has "horsed around with kids.""I am innocent of those charges," Sandusky told Bob Costas in a phone interview on Monday night's Rock Center with Brian Williams. "I could say that I have done some of those things. I have ...
NBC Benches Community, Sets Series Finale Date for Chuck
NBC will bench Community to make room for returning comedy 30 Rock on Thursdays, and has set a premiere date for new series The Firm and Are You There, Chelsea? The network also announced Monday that its upcoming musical drama Smash will debut on Monday, Feb. 6 at 10/9c following the second episode of The Voice. NBC orders The Firm to series Part of a massive Thursday-night overhaul...
Ratings: Terra Nova Up, Dancing Rebounds
On Monday night, Terra Nova attracted 7.67 million viewers and a 2.6 rating among 18-to-49-year-olds, up 16 percent in viewers and an impressive 24 percent in the demo, Nielsen's fast overnights show. But the real winner Monday night was Dancing with the Stars, averaging 18.02 million and 3.3 demo rating — up 18 percent over last week's series low — over two hours starting at 8/7c. Over the same span, NBC's The Sing-Off pulled in 4.20 million (1.5).
Ratings: Rock Center Meets Low Expectations
NBC kept ratings expectations low for Rock Center with Brian Williams — and met them. Well, maybe they surpassed them a little bit.
Critic's Guide to Monday TV: Rock Center, Halloween Marathons, and More!
The biggest TV news of the night comes from a network's news division, as NBC News launches Rock Center With Brian Williams (10/9c), the first high-profile network newsmagazine with serious intent to premiere in a long while, closer in tone to 60 Minutes than Dateline's lurid true-crime fixation. How serious is this? No less a legend than Ted Koppel has signed on as ...
Ted Koppel to Join Rock Center with Brian Williams
Ted Koppel is joining Rock Center with Brian Williams as a special correspondent, NBC News announced Thursday. "My goal has been to make Rock Center the Cooperstown of our craft," Brian Williams said. "Ted is a consensus hall of famer, joining the best team of men and women on the air today. While his place in the history of television journalism is already established, his work here is just beginning. This is the next chapter, and it's an enormous honor to work with this giant and former competitor."
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