NBC Picks Up 5 New Series for 2013-14
NBC has begun piling on the series orders for the 2013-14 campaign, picking up three new comedies and a pair of dramas. Heading to NBC after the summer break are J.J. Abrams’ supernatural drama Believe...
View ArticleNBC’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...
View ArticleNBC Breaks a Lot of Eggs to Make its 2013-14 Omelet
Since ER flatlined in 2009, NBC’s Thursday night lineup has been the Drunk Uncle of prime time television. But in a radical move to reclaim its movie-night mojo, the Peacock is planning a major...
View ArticleWinter Olympics Update: NBC Is In the Pink
While the conjunctivitis-plagued Bob Costas may not look back fondly on the 2014 Winter Olympics, Sochi’s stellar ratings performance has left NBC’s ad sales team in the pink. According to NBC Sports...
View ArticleSolid Sampling for NBC’s Believe
In a night dominated by ABC’s Bachelor postmortem, a special preview of NBC’s new Sunday drama series Believe drew a fair amount of sampling. According to Nielsen fast national data, the 10 p.m....
View ArticleMarch Madness Twitter Ads Tip Off After Buzzer-Beater
Earlier this afternoon, Seton Hall guard Sterling Gibbs hit a last-second shot to help his college basketball team upset Villanova, and marketers for New York Life and NBC immediately purchased...
View ArticleResurrection Returns Strong for ABC
ABC on Sunday night notched a significant victory in the prime-time ratings race, as the second installment of its new supernatural drama series, Resurrection, dominated the fiercely competitive 9...
View ArticleBehind the Scenes of The Good Wife Shocker
If TV’s liveliest time slot weren’t already somewhat paradoxically a-crawl with death, last night’s episode of The Good Wife raised the ante on all things terminal. (Fair warning: Spoilers abound from...
View ArticleResurrection Falls Back to Earth
After a splashy debut in which it more than doubled its time slot predecessor’s average deliveries, ABC’s Resurrection has fallen back to earth. According to Nielsen live-plus-same-day data, the...
View ArticleSluggish Debuts for Bad Teacher, Black Box
With just a month to go before the 2013-14 broadcast TV season slinks off into the murk of history, the networks on Thursday night launched a pair of last-gasp series. As one may well expect from a...
View ArticleGame of Thrones Sets Another Ratings Record
Whether they’re going up against zombies or dragons, the broadcast networks can’t seem to catch a break in the Sunday night 9 p.m. slot. According to Nielsen live-plus-same-day data, last night’s...
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