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Time Slot Showdown of the Week: Monday, 8 p.m.

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After landing half of this fall's NFL Thursday Night Football package, CBS wisely decided against leaving broadcast's top-rated series, The Big Bang Theory, on the sidelines until regular Thursday night [...]


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Déjà Vu All Over Again as CBS Renews 18 Series

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In what has become a rite of spring, CBS on Thursday announced it has renewed 18 series for next season. 

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Solid Sampling for NBC’s Believe

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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.

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How I Met Your Mother Turbocharges CBS’ Lineup

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Episode No. 200 of How I Met Your Mother powered CBS’ entire Monday night lineup, as the nine-seasons-in-the-making origin story helped deliver the comedy’s highest ratings in a year.

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Voiceless Blacklist Drops, Intelligence Plummets

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The return of NBC’s The Blacklist on Monday was undermined somewhat by a softer lead-in, but the season’s No. 1 new series still managed to dominate the 10 p.m. time [...]

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FCC Complaints Never Fail to Disappoint

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CBS may clean up with its prime-time comedies, but if the volume of complaints received by the Federal Communications Commission is any indication, many Americans would like to wash the [...]