'Idol' Continues Downward Ratings Spiral
NEW YORK — Nearly 22 million TV viewers seems like a lot – but for an "American Idol" season-ender, it's a new low. The crowd that tuned ...
NEW YORK — Nearly 22 million TV viewers seems like a lot – but for an "American Idol" season-ender, it's a new low. The crowd that tuned ...
William Bradley | Posted 05.23.2012
"Christmas Waltz" is an improved episode of Mad Men in this uneven season of a longtime great TV series, an episode with a very welcome return to advertising. Too much of this season has been taken up with some fairly arbitrary soap opera doings.
Bethany McHugh | Posted 05.22.2012
It's astonishing that with all the technology available to us a more definitive method for measuring the popularity of TV shows hasn't been established.
Paul Szep | Posted 05.04.2012
Evan Shapiro | Posted 05.01.2012
Welcome to TV in America, where violence, no matter how malicious or senseless, is just fine but sex is decried, maligned and verboten in all but the most secure corners of the schedule. TV's ban on sexuality not only covers scenes of nudity or sexual acts, but our very language itself.
Posted 04.10.2012
Is "Two and a Half Men" in danger of being canceled? The show hit a series low in the Nielsen ratings on Mon., April 9 and has yet to receive an offic...
Posted 04.06.2012
"30 Rock" and "Community" hit series low ratings this week on Thurs., April 5. According to EW, 2.8 million people watched "30 Rock" and 3.1 millio...
Posted 04.03.2012
War is here and so are the numbers! "Game of Thrones" Season 2 debuted to quite a sizable audience for HBO. According to EW, 3.9 million viewers watch...
The Huffington Post | Kia Makarechi | Posted 03.29.2012
Though Nickelodeon once claimed a dip in its ratings was a technical error, it appears as though the network's troubles have not been resolved. Th...
Hollywood Reporter | Posted 03.24.2012
Better luck next time, Fringe. Returning after one month off television screens, Fox's cult sci-fi drama posted a series low in the key advertiser-...
Posted 03.20.2012
Has the ballroom lost its sheen? "Dancing With the Stars" Season 14 kicked off on Monday with 18.5 million viewers tuning in, but was down from the pr...
Christa Miller | Posted 05.20.2012
It's an honor to work with my husband. I realize I am biased. I just think he is one of the best comedy writers/show-runners of all time.
Posted 03.19.2012
"The Walking Dead" closed its Season 2 with lots of blood, guts, zombies and big ratings. The Season 2 finale (9 p.m. ET on AMC) brought in 9 million ...
Posted 03.16.2012
The darkest timeline is over: "Community" is back on NBC and with solid ratings to boot. According to NBC, the midseason premiere of "Community" broug...
Posted 03.13.2012
The darkest timeline is almost over: "Community" is finally coming back (Thurs., March 15, 8 p.m. on NBC). In November, NBC revealed it was pullin...
David Tereshchuk | Posted 05.01.2012
The seeds of failure? I'd say they reside in the tone of "we are giving you our grand vision of what you need" that pervades this now grandstanding news division's programming as a whole.
The Huffington Post | Ron Dicker | Posted 03.02.2012
Any sport that stages its Super Bowl at the start of its official season deserves attention. But NASCAR's Daytona 500 on Sunday could still be mighty ...
Posted 02.23.2012
While it may not have been the Granthams strongest season, the Season 2 finale of "Downton Abbey" earned PBS its highest overnight ratings since 2009'...
AP | By FRAZIER MOORE | Posted 02.22.2012
NEW YORK -- Viewers gave CBS the week's most-watched show along with 21 others in the top 30 ranking. Fox was represented only by its two editions of...
Posted 02.13.2012
AMC's "The Walking Dead" broke cable records with its midseason premiere. "The Walking Dead" returned on Sun., Feb. 12 to more than 8 million viewers,...
AP | Posted 04.10.2012
NEW YORK (AP) — Manchester United's 3-3 tie with Chelsea last Sunday was seen by 1,377,000 viewers on Fox, up slightly from the network's first live...
Posted 02.09.2012
Is "American Idol's" reign over after 11 seasons? The Wed., Feb. 8 show earned a 6.0 rating in the advertiser's coveted 18-49 demographic, which w...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ron Dicker | Posted 02.07.2012
The 2,105,441 viewers who watched NBC's first live stream broadcast of the Super Bowl discovered that the Internet experience still can't entirely rep...
Posted 02.09.2012
Will "Smash" be the ratings hit NBC needs? So far, so good. According to the network, the show brought in 11.5 million viewers with a 3.8 rating in th...
Posted 02.03.2012
"30 Rock" is not having an easy time in the 8 p.m. timeslot on Thursday. With stiff competition -- Fox's "American Idol" and CBS's new ratings juggern...
AP | Posted 05.25.2012