Parenthood Renewed for a Second Season

NBC’s mid-season family dramedy, Parenthood, has just been renewed for a second season. The show got off to an inauspicious start when original star Maura Tierney had to drop out of the series after the pilot due to a battle with cancer. She was replaced with Lauren Graham, causing the pilot to be re-shot and rewritten [...]

53rd annual Grammy Awards date announced

Mark your calendars: the 53rd annual Grammy Awards will be held on Sunday, Feb. 13, 2011.
CBS will air the Grammys live (to the East Coast, at least) from Staples Center in Los Angeles.

The 2011 Grammys are moving back to their usual February home. This year the awards were held on Jan. 31, mainly due to [...]

‘Dancing with the Stars’ is No. 1 … for now

When the weekly Nielsen ratings come out Tuesday, they’ll show something that hasn’t happened for a long time: A regularly scheduled show other than “American Idol” at the top.
The crown for this week will go to “Dancing with the Stars,” whose Monday (March 29) performance episode bested “American Idol’s” Tuesday (March 30) performance show by [...]

‘Trauma’: Anastasia Griffith hopes show’s fate isn’t up in the air

Anastasia Griffith wants to remain on “Trauma” for some time to come.
The Paris-born, London-raised actress is glad her Monday NBC drama series about often-airborne San Francisco paramedics is back, after what she says was a planned hiatus in and around the Winter Olympics. As for whether the show will get a second season, Griffith admits [...]

‘Dancing With the Stars’: Erin Andrews has her reasons

Erin Andrews has her reasons for joining “Dancing With the Stars,” and they’re not all about dance.
The ESPN reporter who faced scandal last year — after she was unknowingly videotaped through a hotel-door peephole — will join other celebrity contenders including Winter Olympics gold-medalist figure skater Evan Lysacek, astronaut Buzz Aldrin and latest television “Bachelor” [...]

NBC: Great job on the Olympics. Now comes the hard part

The Winter Olympics, capped by the most-watched hockey game in the United States in 30 years, were a big success for NBC.
The average prime-time audience for the games was 24.4 million people per night — an improvement of 21 percent over the 2006 Winter Olympics — and the network says that 190 million Americans [...]

TV ratings: No contest as Olympics dominate Friday

Fast National ratings for Friday, Feb. 26, 2010
The Winter Olympics drew an audience bigger than the combined total of the other four networks Friday, winning the night by a whopping 19 million viewers. The competition was light, to be sure, but the margin of victory was still pretty incredible.
NBC scored 23.5 million viewers and a [...]

2010 Winter Olympics: TV schedule for Saturday

The last full day of competition at the Winter Olympics features medal events in snowboarding, alpine skiing and bobsled, plus a capper to figure skating and the gold-medal match in curling.
Here’s what you’ll see on Saturday.
NBC
Daytime: The medals in the men’s and women’s team pursuit will be up for grabs on the speed skating oval [...]

TV ratings: Olympics at the top of Thursday’s podium

Fast National ratings for Thursday, Feb. 25, 2010
The crowning of a new women’s figure skating champion at the Winter Olympics carried NBC to a ratings victory Thursday night, although the first cuts on “American Idol” outperformed the games in adults 18-49.
NBC brought in an average of 22.5 million viewers and a 13.3 rating/21 share for [...]

TV ratings: ‘Idol’s’ guys top Olympics Wednesday

Fast National ratings for Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2010
Wednesday’s ratings played out pretty much the same way that Tuesday’s did, with the top 12 men on “American Idol” beating the Winter Olympics by a decent margin in viewers and a larger spread in the demo.
For the night, “Idol” and FOX drew 22.8 million viewers and a [...]

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