Pauley Perrette’s final episode of NCIS delivered a season high in total viewers for the CBS series on Tuesday night. Airing at 8 p.m., NCIS averaged a 1.6 rating in adults 18-49 and 14.8 million viewers. That is the show’s best total viewer haul of the season and its highest demo rating since the season premiere back in September. It was also up by an impressive 33% in the demo and approximately 20% in total viewers over last week’s episode.
More than any other showrunner, he has upended the pieties of modern television. Murphy, whose shows include Glee and American Horror Story, loves extremes. He’s proud never to have made, he says, “the long Sominex hour that ends in gray and a fadeout.”
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The CW is giving Valor an honorary discharge, canceling the Army drama after one season. Valor starred Matt Barr (One Tree Hill, Sleepy Hollow) and Christina Ochoa (Blood Drive) as Leland Gallo and Nora Madani, co-pilots caught up in an international conspiracy.
‘Big Bang’ Regains Its Spot At Top Of Ratings
The CBS comedy was seen by nearly 13 million people last week and helped propel the network to No. 1 in primetime, averaging 6.7 million viewers. ABC had 4.9 million viewers, NBC had 4.5 million, Fox had 2.5 million, Univision had 1.4 million, Ion Television had 1.2 million, Telemundo had 1.1 million and the CW had 1 million.
The woman who made millions teaching America to cook dinner in a half-hour is facing 50, and a new digital world, with a pantry full of big plans.
Judy’s The Standout In A Ho-Hum Week
The court queen turns in a 7.0 to lead all of first-run syndication and is one of only a handful of shows to turn in week-to-week gains in the frame ending April 29.
‘Dancing With the Stars: Athletes’ Dips
The second episode of Dancing with the Stars: Athletes was down slightly week-to-week in the overnight ratings. Airing at 8 p.m. on ABC, Athletes averaged a 1.0 rating in adults 18-49 and 7.6 million viewers. That is down by approximately 13% in the demo and 10% in total viewers from last week’s premiere, which was itself a new premiere low for the dancing competition series.
Post-apocalyptic drama The 100 has aired two episodes of its fifth season, which premiered in April, thus far drawing an average of 1.23 total million viewers and 0.35 in the 18-49 demo.
NEW YORK (AP) — Relax, John Oliver fans. He’s not really quitting. It was all a joke. The host of HBO’s “Last Week Tonight” said Sunday that he’d achieved all […]
NBC has given a second-season pickup to Good Girls, its new midseason drama from The Family creator Jenna Bans. The series, starring Christina Hendricks, Retta and Mae Whitman, marks the second drama renewed by NBC for next season, joining This Is Us,and the first NBC freshman series to get a Season 2 (unless the Will & Grace revival is counted as a new series).
BuzzFeed named Lauren Dolgen, previously with Vice and a long-time MTV exec, as head of BuzzFeed Studios. In her new role, Dolgen will oversee development of original products for BuzzFeed partners on TV, subscription VOD, film and digital. She will work with talent and intellectual property from BuzzFeed, BuzzFeed Media and BuzzFeed Media Brands.
Fox has given a second-season pickup to medical drama series The Resident. This marks the fourth freshman Fox drama to get a Season 2 renewal, joining 9-1-1, The Gifted and The Orville, for one of the largest groups of first-year dramas to make it to Year Two at the network. Like the other three, The Resident hails from Fox’s (still-sibling) 20th Century Fox TV.
Phone Swap is becoming the first Snapchat series to go from a mobile format to television. Fox Television Stations has closed a deal with Vertical Networks for a TV version of the company’s Snapchat reality dating show to air for a limited run on select Fox stations this summer.
‘American Idol’ Dips, Still Tops Sunday
Airing at 8 p.m., ABC’s American Idol averaged a 1.7 rating in adults 18-49 and 7.9 million viewers. That is down a little over 10% in both measures from last week. Nevertheless, Idol’s closest competition in the demo was fellow ABC series America’s Funniest Home Videos, which drew a 1.1 and 5.5 million viewers at 7 p.m. At 10 p.m., Deception (0.7, 3.4 million) also dipped in the demo but was the top-rated show in its timeslot.
As women take control behind the scenes, they’re beginning to influence the characters and stories we see on screen.
