FOX DROPS RESULTS SHOW FROM SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE

Fox may have concluded that it is overloaded with talent shows. On Monday, Nigel Lythgoe, the producer/judge on So You Think You Can Dance revealed that Fox had canceled the separate weekly results show, making it necessary for him to combine the separate performance and results episodes. “I’m certainly not mad at Fox — they [...]

ANALYST: HYPE DOESN’T HELP LOUSY TV SHOWS

Appraising the new shows of 2011-12 at midseason, veteran media analyst Brad Adgate of Horizon Media has found that some of the shows that were the most heavily hyped prior to their debut flopped while other little-noticed entries became hits. In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Adgate singled out NBC’s The Playboy Club [...]

X FACTOR FINALE: IT WAS NO AMERICAN IDOL

Rival networks probably concluded months ago that Thursday night’s season finale of The X Factor would attract a huge audience, and they therefore programmed mostly reruns opposite it. But that was when producer/judge Simon Cowell was predicting that regular episodes of the talent show would attract 20 million viewers or more and when Fox was [...]

CBS BECOMES THE NEW “MUST SEE TV” ON THURSDAYS

As far as the Nielsen ratings go, CBS’s Thursday-night comedy lineup clearly has become the equivalent of what NBC used to call Must See TV for the same night. And its 10:00 drama The Mentalist is the equivalent of NBC’s onetime powerhouse ER. Rarely, since NBC’s glory days, has a network dominated on a single [...]

REPORT: COWELL TO RETURN TO U.K. TALENT SHOW

Simon Cowell, who left the British version of America’s Got Talent (Britain’s Got Talent) to focus his energy on the launch of The X Factor in the U.S., will return to the show next year, the London Daily Mirror reported today (Wednesday), citing a source at ITV, the commercial broadcaster. Ratings for both BGT and [...]

THANKSGIVING KNOCKS STUFFING OUT OF RATINGS

The night before Thanksgiving usually attracts some of the lowest midweek ratings of the entire regular season, and Wednesday was no exception. ABC’s Modern Family, the network’s highest-rated scripted show, lost 20 percent of its audience, a season low. (With 12.6 million viewers, however, it remained the top-rated show of the night and also gave [...]

X FACTOR‘S X FACTOR: TWITTER

Integrating Twitter into the voting mechanism for Fox’s The X Factor has turned out to be a significant factor itself in the success of the talent show, Advertising Age reports in its current edition Citing a study by Cambridge-MA-based Bluefin Labs (“our editorial partner”), AdAge said that the Simon Cowell-produced show “has been a hands-down [...]

MODERN FAMILY TOPS WEDNESDAY RATINGS

Modern Family

Modern Family is giving ABC a potential foothold on Wednesday night. Now, all it has to do is find some additional programs that can benefit from its strong ratings. On Wednesday the show drew 12.9 million viewers and was the highest rated series on the air among total adults and adults 18-49. But the rest [...]

X FACTOR, BONES AID FOX FOLLOWING SERIES

With the World Series out of the picture, ratings for network programs returned to normal Thursday night. Fox’s The X Factor returned to the top at 8:00 p.m. with a results episode that drew 11.7 million viewers (virtually identical to Wednesday’s performance episode). That helped boost ratings for the season debut of Bones, which followed [...]

IT’S NO IDOL, BUT FOX RENEWS THE X FACTOR

The show is getting nowhere near the audience that American Idol routinely draws, not to mention the audience that its creator, Simon Cowell, had predicted it would, but Fox reality chief Mike Darnell announced on Wednesday that The X Factor will be renewed for a second season and pronounced it a “monumental success.” To be [...]

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