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Viewers Have Little Appetite for NBC’s Hannibal

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Broadcasters this week squeezed out two of the final scripted series premieres of the 2012-13 campaign, and as has been the case throughout the season, the results were unspectacular.


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‘Smash’ Strikes a Chord With Viewers

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NBC’s dogged promotional push for its new Broadway drama, Smash, appears to have paid off, as Monday night’s premiere delivered the season’s highest ratings in the 10 p.m. slot.

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CBS Freezes Out ‘How to Be a Gentleman’

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CBS has effectively canceled its freshman comedy How to Be a Gentleman, exiling the show to Saturday night and handing its plum post-Big Bang Theory slot to the veteran sitcom [...]

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Crash and Burn: ABC’s ‘Pan Am’ Is Another Downer

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Heading into the third week of the 2011-12 TV season, the new crop of broadcast dramas appears to be dying on the vine.

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Girls’ Night Out: ‘Angels,’ ‘Whitney,’ and Bello Bow

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When casting around for a single word to characterize the new TV season, one could do a lot worse than the millennial interjection “meh.” But for a pair of comedies [...]

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Crupi Calls ‘Em: NBC

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