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by LISA GUETZKOW
May-19-2013 - No Comments
Series could end up below last year's audience, despite huge premiere
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 ...
Read MorePLUS: 'Modern Family' matches 'Two and a Half Men' in audience growth
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 ...
Read More'Hawaii Five-0' showrunner is giving med series a shot
Peter Lenkov is taking advantage of the success he's seeing with his reboot of "Hawaii Five-O" for CBS that he's now working on yet another series he hopes the network will pick up. The yet unnamed series, in conjunction with writer Jason Dean Hall, is actually inspired by the late Apple Inc. co- ...
Read MoreCBS is still trying to win 35 weeks this season, however
The season is winding down, and networks are deciding what shows they want to return, and which will go down in history. And in the middle of all that turmoil is some familiarity. CBS is still on top week after week, as it tries to win 35 weeks this season (it's at 33 right now), and the top 10 ...
Read MoreYet, 'Two and a Half Men' continues big slide
Now that we're 33 weeks into the season, CBS has had a chance to prove its complete dominance over all of network television, claiming its 30th weekly win. That came with the help of "NCIS" and "NCIS: Los Angeles," but like many television shows this spring, they're down from what looked like pro ...
Read MoreGet a look at the fate of this year's CBS programming lineup
Thanks, CBS, for announcing a ton of renewals before I even had a chance to write this! That's right, the network has already renewed 15 shows and officially cancelled one. That means we have just a small handful of remaining shows that we can now pick apart and find out if any of them are return ...
Read MorePLUS: 'The Simpsons' gets its best ratings in years thanks to football
Just last week, "The Simpsons" was ranked No. 53 of all the non-news, non-sporting and non-specials aired on network television. This week? Try No. 5. "The Simpsons" earned an 8.8 rating/13 share in Fast National overnight ratings from The Nielsen Co. last week, getting a boost thanks to high- ...
Read MoreHow is Ashton Kutcher doing for the CBS sitcom that has thrived so long?
For nearly a year, all we have seemingly heard when it comes to comedy is "Two and a Half Men," and maybe a sneak in of "Modern Family" (after it won its second comedy Emmy). With all that talk, the sitcom -- which now stars Ashton Kutcher in the place of Charlie Sheen -- should be television's b ...
Read MoreCBS wins its fifth week in a row, with Disney-owned channel only real competition so far
A strong premiere from the new Tim Allen series "Last Man Standing" was just not enough for ABC to take over the top spot in the weekly ratings race as CBS captured its fifth straight weekly crown. "Last Man Standing" debuted to an 8.1 rating/12 share in Fast National overnight ratings from The N ...
Read MoreOpening night was good for ABC, CBS
It's not very often that "Two and a Half Men" can claim the top scripted series slot in the ratings on a full week, but it certainly did with the debut of Ashton Kutcher. The sitcom, airing its first episode without warlock Charlie Sheen, posted its best numbers ever, a 16.2 rating/23 share in Fa ...
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