Tough Sledding for Broadcast TV
In what’s shaping up to be an annus horribilis for the broadcast networks, ratings for returning series are plummeting and only a few newcomers are finding an audience.
Moneyball: Game 4 of World Series Tops ‘Sunday Night Football’
For the first time in memory, the World Series has outdelivered the NFL in head-to-head competition.
NBC Kills Off ‘The Playboy Club’
The ears weren’t the only things that flopped at The Playboy Club, as three weeks of poor deliveries have doomed NBC’s much-ballyhooed fall drama. The first new series of the [...]
Crash and Burn: ABC’s ‘Pan Am’ Is Another Downer
Heading into the third week of the 2011-12 TV season, the new crop of broadcast dramas appears to be dying on the vine.