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New Series Take a Beating on Tuesday Night

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For all the sampling of new broadcast series people did last week, it’s starting to look as if viewers are more interested in the established shows. This is good news [...]

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Legends of the Fall TV Season

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Projecting a TV series’ long-term prospects on the basis of a single broadcast is a puzzling seasonal compulsion, a ritual on par with the creation of back-to-school macaroni art.

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Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Delivers Superhuman Ratings

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The much-anticipated premiere of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. delivered powerhouse ratings for ABC Tuesday night, marking the third successful drama launch of the new fall season.

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ABC Overhauls Fall Schedule

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In what has become a somewhat hoary upfront tradition, Jimmy Kimmel on Tuesday took the stage at New York’s Avery Fisher Hall and gleefully skewered the broadcast TV business.

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ABC, CBS Firm Up Their Fall Schedules

Convergent TV

On the Friday night before the TV world converges on New York for the upfronts, word about their respective orders, renewals and cancelations is starting to trickle in from the [...]