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Fox returned with its high-rated reality competition series, and took advantage of the fact that both ABC and NBC didn't, to capture the No. 2 spot among the networks this week and earn its best weekly ratings since Sept. 16. "American Idol" is back, averaging a 9.7 rating/15 share, according to ...

Andy Griffith, the actor and comedian with a good country-boy sense of appeal and who charmed generations of television viewers, has died. He was 86. Most best recognize Griffith for his work on "The Andy Griffith Show," which ran on on CBS between 1960 and 1968. Others recognize him still from s ...

ABC's returning drama "Scandal" has done something that few -- if any -- new shows have done before: It finished the season with the most stable audience in all of network television. The series, which stars Kerry Washington and Henry Ian Cusick, finished the season ranked No. 42 overall, but mai ...

When Inside Blip made its predictions on what shows would live and what would die, we knew that one of the CSI series would be gone. We just thought it would be the lower-rated "CSI: New York." We were wrong. And so were a lot of other people, too. CBS instead dumped "CSI: Miami" after 10 seas ...

All the publicity in the world about Charlie Sheen's exit and Ashton Kutcher's entrance couldn't keep a big audience for "Two and a Half Men," but it's still one of television's top-rated comedies ... and is now coming back for a 10th season. All three actors -- Kutcher, Jon Cryer and Angus T. Jo ...

Well, if our analysis and forecast is right, the 2011-12 season won't be a season too full of death. In fact, if what we predict holds true, the networks will return 83 shows and part ways with just 32 as we get down to crunch time preparing for the 2012-13 television season. CBS is likely to kee ...

The television show with the most stable audience from week to week is not "NCIS" (but almost) or even "Dancing With the Stars." Instead, the one show that audiences come back for each episode is "Rules of Engagement" on CBS. The comedy, starring Patrick Warburton and Bianca Kajlich, has an Audie ...

Can someone please explain what happened to "Glee" this season? The show, by far Fox's biggest audience gainer last season, has now become the network's biggest liability. Apparently, adding writers and less songs haven't done the trick for "Glee," has it has now lost more than 28 percent of its ...

Not every show can get the love and support of its network. But Patrick Warburton is at a loss as to why CBS has no problem tossing around "Rules of Engagement" as if it were a piece of trash. Warburton, whose show was not included in CBS' immediate midseason plans, feels that if the network just ...

CBS doesn't have the No. 1 or No. 2 show on television. But it has pretty much all the other best shows. It's schedule has a consistency -- even with its lowest-rated shows -- that other networks salivate over. The fact that the lowest its 2010-11 schedule dropped in the overall rankings was No. ...