Ratings are sometimes cruel.  They can lead to a show you love leaving you.  They can also lead to situations where we question how such a good show could possibly fail, why, when all our friends watch it, the rest of the world seems indifferent. You may find the following report disturbing… The Event – NBC Will it stick? According [...]

US network NBC are trying all sorts of tricks to revive their flagging fortunes, and got off to a bombastic start with a Super Bowl which pimped their shows to high heaven. Heroes returned to US screens last night with a high-octane (by that we mean racy, not full of gas) episode to launch the [...]

FOX have ordered two more scripts of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.  These will form episodes 2×14 and 2×15 of the season — although it is unclear if these scripts will be filmed. Normally a network would order “the back nine episodes”, which they haven’t done in this case.  The last case we can recall [...]

BBC One’s “MERLIN”, which stars Richard Wilson, Anthony Head and John Hurt, pulled in 6.65 mil viewers for its opening episode.  The show will air on NBC from January.  The numbers are respectably good, especially considering its place against ITV’s The X Factor (9.26 mil).  Expect a second series to be announced shortly for next [...]

How I Met Your Mother – 9.7 mil – a very strong performance, outpacing it’s 8.2 mil average from last season.  A total of 20% over it’s previous season opener.  It’s good news for the series, which had been facing year on year decline in ratings. The Big Bang Theory – 9.2 mil – slightly [...]

Despite relatively poor opening ratings and only having aired two episodes, HBO have ordered a second series of Vamp drama “True Blood”.  This shouldn’t be a huge surprise to anybody – creator Alan Ball worked on the hugely successful “Six Feet Under”, and genre shows don’t always find an immediate audience (example: the first low [...]