COMMENTARY BY ROB OWEN
Looking At Hits, Misses Of The New Season
We’re now almost a month into the 2014-15 TV season, and between the changing landscape of how viewers watch TV and Nielsen’s blunders — a software glitch assigned more ratings to ABC shows than were deserved until the error was discovered last week — it’s more difficult than ever to assess winners and losers among the new broadcast network series. But by looking at all the factors networks consider today, it’s possible to offer this early assessment of some new series and their prospects for longer-term success:
The half-hour single-camera series becomes the second pilot to advance at the network this season with an order for 13 episodes.
