Cable again took center stage with season premieres for ‘True Blood’, ‘Burn Notice’, and Suits, along with series premieres for ‘Bunheads’ and ‘Dallas’. On the broadcast networks, if the NBA and the NHL played football, the score would be 35 to 10.
Cable took center stage with nine big premieres and some very encouraging finale numbers for HBO’s ‘Game Of Thrones’. On the broadcast networks, NBC remains at the head of the class thanks to ‘America’s Got Talent.’
This week includes releases for ‘Rizzoli & Isles’, ‘Teen Wolf’, ‘Sherlock’, ‘My Babysitter’s A Vampire’, ‘The River’, ‘Survivor’, ‘Route 66′, ‘S.W.A.T.’, ‘Dean Martin’, ‘Dragon Ball Z Kai’, ‘Ghost Hunters International’, and ‘Adventures Of Zelda’.
The week between Christmas and New Years is something of a new programming wasteland, but I did manage to find a very interesting number for ‘Big Bang Theory’ repeats on TBS. How do you suppose those stack up against ‘Community’ or ‘Chuck’ on NBC?
The holidays dealt a crushing blow to the network schedules last week, leaving only five hours of new scripted programming on all five broadcast networks combined. Over on cable, it was season finale time for ‘American Horror Story’, ‘The League’, ‘Dexter’, and ‘Homeland’.
After a five year break, ‘Fear Factor’ returned at the top of the NBC heap. Over on cable, a shocking finale for HBO’s ‘Boardwalk Empire’ meant good things for everyone. Well… everyone but that actor… that played that guy.
‘Two And A Half Men’ has slipped back ahead of ‘Modern Family’ on the big networks, while over on cable the ‘Sons Of Anarchy’ finale was bested by bikes, boxes, and babies.
