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Rosario T. Calabria on June 2, 2009 at 10:05 pm
Conan O’Brien’s first The Tonight Show started off on a strong note, drawing a 7.1/17 HH rating/share in Nielsen’s metered-market overnights. The rating is an 82% improvement over the second-quarter average of The Tonight Show (3.9) and an even more impressive 173% above what O’Brien averaged for his farewell appearance on Late Night with Conan [...]
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Rosario T. Calabria on June 1, 2009 at 1:46 am
Jay Leno’s final Tonight Show delivered the show’s best ratings ever for a Friday night telecast. The episode drew an 8.8/20 household rating/share in Nielsen’s 56 overnight metered markets. That’s a 126% increase over the show’s metered-market average during the past quarter (3.9).
NBC had a very successful final week for The Tonight Show, with the [...]
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Rosario T. Calabria on May 19, 2009 at 6:39 pm
It’s been a busy day today at CBS shows, as the network made decisions on nine of their own shows, and one from another network. First up, CBS seems poised to pick up Medium from NBC who opted not to renew it. The network is expected to pair the show with episodes of Ghost Whisperer [...]
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Rosario T. Calabria on May 18, 2009 at 11:56 pm
NBC renewed Dick Wolf’s veteran crime drama Law & Order for a 20th season, matching Gunsmoke’s record 20-year run (albeit Gunsmoke aired considerably more episodes). The order is expected to be for 16 episodes.
NBC will make their 2009/2010 season schedules official tomorrow (Tuesday) in New York where they’ll have their upfront presentation to advertisers.
Follow along [...]
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Rosario T. Calabria on May 14, 2009 at 6:48 pm
Jay Leno’s last show as host of NBC’s late-night The Tonight Show (Friday, May 29th) will be the man who’ll replace him: Conan O’Brien. O’Brien will then begin his hosting duties on the show the following Monday, June 1st.
Jay Leno took over from Johnny Carson in 1992, making 17 years at the helm. Leno begins [...]
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Rosario T. Calabria on May 13, 2009 at 8:49 pm
Following you will find NBC’s current development slate (confirmed and rumored) and schedules for the 2009/2010 season. Updates will be made on a regular basis, ahead of and through the upfronts which take place next week.
I’ll sticky the thread to the of the page when an update happens, but you can find this post on [...]
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Rosario T. Calabria on May 4, 2009 at 11:40 pm
NBC has unveiled a portion of their 2009-2010 lineup, announcing official renewals for Heroes, Southland, Parks and Recreation and Saturday Night Live Weekend Update Thursday (six new episodes), and pickups of four new dramas: Trauma, Parenthood, Mercy and the event series Day One, plus two new comedies: Community and 100 Questions. You can check out [...]