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CBS: 9.23M viewers There is no sophomore slump for the CBS comedy Ghosts. Its season two premiere Sept. 29 delivered 9.23 million viewers after a week of delayed viewing (not [...]

[down arrow] Saturday Night Live, led by its longtime producer, took a steep dive year-to-year for its fall premiere, tumbling 40 percent from 8.2 million viewers to 4.9 million. Please [...]

The Saturday Night Live boss steers the NBC variety series into a post-election slump, as the Dec. 5 episode draws a season low of 6.2 million viewers. Please Note: Illustration(s) [...]

3 ARTS ENTERTAINMENT When 'The Office' took home the Emmy for comedy in August, the loudest cheers might just have been from the managers-producers at 3 Arts Entertainment. Company partner [...]

LOOK FOR ALI LEROI on the set of Everybody Hates Chris, and you'll likely find him taking pictures--as if this first-time show runner didn't have enough to do already. But [...]

Despite airing between The Outsider and Curb Your Enthusiasm, HBO's new comedy is pulling half as many viewers as either--just 655,000. Please Note: Illustration(s) are not available due to copyright [...]

THE BIGGEST HIT of the television season was supposed to be The X Factor, a reality performance show from American Idol's Simon Cowell. But something has changed since the days [...]

WHILE A HANDFUL OF high-profile rebooted shows have helped anchor the broadcast schedule this season, including NBC comedy Will & Grace, CBS cop drama SWAT and The CW's soapy Dynasty, [...]

Byline: ADAM KEPLER ABC's Tuesday-night comedy block has run into ratings difficulties. To view this article at nytimes.com, click here: [...]

In today's edition of news from newspaper campaign blogs: Palin is great for 'SNL' ratings; Bill Richardson and Bill Clinton are still on the outs; and Obama signage not welcome [...]

I used to make up stuff in my bio all the time, that I used to be a professional ice-skater and stuff like that. I found it so inspirational. Why [...]

Byline: Daisy Whitney The creators of CBS's 'How I Met Your Mother'' have made inroads toward solving the puzzle of how to make a Web promotion drive linear ratings. The [...]

Miserly complaints proved more compelling than comedy at 10pm on Friday 19 May, with Liberty Bell's Grumpy Old Men drawing 2.7m on BBC2 (a 13% share) up against the end [...]

Byline: Krueger, Matt; Kita, Paul Must-Haves: Can't-miss picks from this month's cultural menu BEST NEW CD 1. RETURN TO COOKIE MOUNTAIN TV ON THE RADIO (Interscope Records) TV on the [...]

Byline: Devin Gordon Here's a trivia question: who was the host of 'The Daily Show' when Stephen Colbert got his start as a correspondent? Need a hint? It wasn't Jon [...]

Byline: Daisy Whitney NBC's 'The Office'' delivered a 5.1-its highest ratings ever-last Thursday among adults 18 to 49, a bump the network credits in large part to the show's popularity [...]

Byline: James Hibberd Adding African American Sitcoms to Schedule For nearly a decade TV Land's prime-time lineup has been dominated by classic sitcoms such as 'The Munsters,'' 'Green Acres'' and [...]

Thanks to the success of NBC's Tuesday night single-camera series 'My Name Is Earl,'' the embattled sitcom genre may finally be on the comeback trail. For this season's comedy development [...]

Broadcast television is about to hit a milestone-one that it may not want to celebrate. For the first time in the 55-year history of network TV ratings, it appears there [...]

Byline: Christopher Lisotta Less than three weeks after the start of the 2005-06 season, the broadcast networks appear to have a few reasons to crack a smile about prime time, [...]

While a handful of surprise network successes during the 2004-05 season have renewed industry enthusiasm for scripted series on broadcast television, prime time's recent good fortune has yet to trickle [...]

Despite all of last week's talk of new development for the 2005-06 prime-time season, NBC Entertainment President Kevin Reilly took time out of his presentation to advertisers to announce that [...]

With the Presidents Day holiday helping to drive up viewing, three strips-King World's 'Dr. Phil'' and Warner Bros.' 'The Ellen DeGeneres Show'' and 'Judge Mathis''-hit series highs for the week [...]

Company celebrated after notching up 7.7m viewers, a 31.6% share, for its ITV1 Newcastle-based police drama Lawless on 8 November, taking 1m viewers away from Kudos's Spooks on BBC1. Elsewhere, [...]

Now that MGM is officially on board as a National Association of Television Program Executives floor exhibitor in January, NATPE president and CEO Rick Feldman has cemented plans for the [...]

'Seinfeld,' in its seventh off-network season, has regained the top spot among syndicated sitcoms with a 6.1 rating average, representing a 17% increase, according to Nielsen Media Research data for [...]

'Becker' and 'Family Law' produce respectable numbers in the post- 'Everybody Loves Raymond' timeslots in CBS' Monday lineup, but they are losing big chunks of the hit comedy's audience among [...]

HOLLYWOOD The nets are getting a bigger ratings bounce out of comedies in their 'hammock' timeslots this season, but in order to do it, most have had to prune their [...]

AT THIS TIME LAST YEAR, BREAKOUT HITS 2 Broke Girls and New Girl had the TV industry declaring a comedy comeback. Months later, 16 of the 36 scripted series ordered [...]

The broadcast biz, in need of an immediate injection of hits, has gotten just that this fall. Thanks to a sitcom surge, some unique new dramas and the return of [...]

LOS ANGELES -- If the opening of the fall TV season has proved one thing so far, it's that comedy has reclaimed the broadcast throne. After the genre made promising [...]

To many, the socko success of ABC's 'Modern Family' and Fox's 'Glee' this past season underscores that single-cam is the predominant comedy format du jour. While CBS continues to draw [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ABC's new laffer 'Better Off Ted' got off to an OK start Wednesday in tandem with 'Scrubs' in the 8 p.m. hour. 'Ted,' a high-concept laffer starring Jay [...]

EACH OF THE BIG FOUR broadcasters only renewed one new comedy from the 2013-14 television season. That might look like a bumper crop once 2014-15 has ended. So far, only [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A special appearance by Gov. Sarah Palin has lifted NBC's 'Saturday Night Live' to its best overnight numbers in 14 years. According to Nielsen's metered-market results, repping 56 [...]

The presidential campaign has been very, very good to 'Saturday Night Live.' 'SNU' has experienced a hefty bump in the Nielsen polls this election season, boasting a 50% gain over [...]

As the broadcasters limp to the finish line this season, there is at least something to smile about amid the overall meager Nielsen numbers generated in this strike-interrupted frame. In [...]

LOS ANGELES -- The sitcoms are back--and viewers have returned with them. The first scripted productions to resume their broadcast runs since the writers strike ended were rewarded with some [...]

It took more than a decade, but TBS has finally thrown off its reputation as the 'Andy Griffith Show' network. 'I think it's safe to say we ain't in Mayberry [...]

ABC has handed out a full-season pickup to the freshman comedy 'Samantha Who?' The back-nine order Tuesday followed a solid third airing for 'Samantha' on Monday night, when the comedy […]