Below are the top 50 programs on cable on Sunday, 4/14/24. Items of note include the series premiere of The Sympathizer on HBO, Parish on AMC, and When Calls the Heart on Hallmark.
(Note: Click any show with its name in orange to be taken to its page in the TV Ratings Guide Cable Ratings Database.)
This week on the NBC Renew/Cancel, I take a closer look at the only drama with its fate still hanging in the balance, withs its odds continuing to take a downturn as May approaches. Plus, the results of the championship game of the NBC Renew/Cancel March Madness!
Analysis to come.
CBS continues to lock down their programming for next season. This time, they have renewed their latest show, police procedural Elsbeth, for a second season. The show, starring Carrie Preston reprising her Emmy-winning role from The Good Wife, premiered February 29 before taking a one-month break. Despite that, it has performed well enough for CBS, averaging 0.30 in the key 18-49 demo and drawing over ten million viewers in multiplatform viewing. The series is the latest collaboration between CBS and married creatives Robert and Michelle King, who also created the aforementioned Good Wife and its first spinoff, The Good Fight, as well as CBS-turned-Paramount+ drama Evil. Elsbeth was one of only two new scripted originals on CBS this season, the other being the breakout hit Tracker, as the WGA and SAG strikes impacted scripted content on all of TV in the first half of the season. This is a correct prediction for The TV Ratings Guide.
Below are the top 50 programs on cable on Saturday, 4/13/24. Items of note include On Patrol: Live on Reelz, Big City Greens on Disney, and Legend of the Lost Locket on Hallmark.
(Note: Click the name of any show with its title in red to be taken to its page in the TV Ratings Guide Cable Ratings Database.)
Analysis to come.
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Officer John Nolan may not be a rookie anymore, but he'll remain on the case for another year. ABC has renewed The Rookie, their veteran police procedural, for a seventh season. The drama series has been a decent live+same-day performer for the network over its run, but is a top performer in digital multiplatform viewing. This year, the show averaged a 0.33 in the L+SD 18-49 demo, a decline from last season, but still enough to keep the show competitive in its hour. The show celebrated its 100th episode this season, and its success in delayed viewing inspired an order for its spinoff, The Rookie: Feds, in 2022. After failing to live up to the success of its parent show, Feds was canceled last year after a single season, but The Rookie remains a valuable asset for the network. Nathan Fillion, Melissa O'Neil, Eric Winter, Jenna Dewan Richard T. Jones and Alyssa Diaz star in the series. This is a correct prediction for The TV Ratings Guide.
Below are the top 50 programs on cable on Thursday, 4/11/24. Items of note include NBA on TNT, Jersey Shore Family Vacation on MTV, and The Masters on ESPN.
(Note: Click the names of the shows written in purple or blue to be taken to their pages in the TV Ratings Guide Cable Database.)
Below are the top 50 programs on cable on Wednesday, 4/3/24. Items of note include the midseason premiere of Chucky on Syfy and USA, American Horror Story: Delicate on FX, and Top Chef on Bravo.
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Below are the top 50 programs on cable on Tuesday, 4/9/24. Items of note include Shogun on FX, Vanderpump Rules on Bravo, and NBA on TNT.
(Note: Click any show with its name in green or blue to be taken to its page in the TV Ratings Guide Cable Ratings Database.)
Below are the top 50 programs on cable on Monday, 4/8/24. Items of note include Spring Baking Championship on Food Network, WWE Raw on USA, and the 2024 Men's NCAA Basketball Championship on TBS, TNT and TruTV.
(Note: Click any show with its name in yellow or blue to be taken to its page in the TV Ratings Guide Cable Ratings Database.)
Analysis to come.
In a rare shakeup to the networks' daytime lineup, CBS has announced that their long-running afternoon chat show The Talk will end in December 2024, after fifteen seasons. The show first premiered in 2010, after soap opera As the World Turns was canceled following a run of more than fifty years. In the years since, the show has been a reliable fixture of CBS's daytime lineup. Trouble seemed to be brewing for the show after reports that CBS was developing a new hour-long soap opera, The Gates. The show had been one of the lower-rated shows on daytime TV, consistently placing outside of the top ten in the daytime broadcast ratings, and trailing similar panel talk shows such as ABC's The View. Over the years, The Talk has featured hosts Sara Gilbert, Sharon Osbourne, Julie Chen, Aisha Tyler and Carrie Ann Inaba as regular panelists, with Sheryl Underwood (the show's longest-running host), Natalie Morales, Jerry O'Connell, Amanda Loots and Akbar Gbajabiamila making up the show's current panel.
Below are the top 50 programs on cable on Sunday, 4/7/24. Items of note include the series finale of Curb Your Enthusiasm on HBO, Parish on AMC, and the season premiere of When Calls the Heart on Hallmark.
(Note: Click any show with its name in orange to be taken to its page in the TV Ratings Guide Cable Ratings Database.)
Analysis to come.
SWAT has defied death once again. The Friday night procedural, which was canceled last May after six seasons before CBS granted it a reprieve and handed it a seventh, will no longer end with the seventh season, as had previously been announced. CBS has ordered an eighth season of the series, following negotiations with Sony that only began earlier this week. The series was recently added to Netflix, where it has performed well. It has also been a strong performer on CBS, averaging 0.39 in the key 18-49 demo and beating several other drama series on CBS, including FBI: International, So Help Me Todd, and NCIS: Hawai'i. Shemar Moore leads the cast of the series, which also features Jay Harrington, David Lim, and Patrick St. Esprit in starring roles. The eighth season is said to be for a full, twenty-two episode season.
Below are the top 50 programs on cable on Saturday, 4/6/24. Items of note include March Madness on TBS and TruTV, AEW: Collision on TNT, and Blind Date Book Club on Hallmark.
(Note: Click the name of any show with its title in red to be taken to its page in the TV Ratings Guide Cable Ratings Database.)
(Note: Click the name of any show with its title in purple or blue to be taken to its page in the TV Ratings Guide Cable Ratings Database.)
