Posts Tagged ‘NBC’
NBC again looking like a plucked Peacock
by Ed Bark on September 30th 2011 at 3:17 pm
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The new TV season is still in diapers, but it's not too early to tell that NBC again would be nowhere without Sunday Night Football. Yearning to dig itself out of fourth place in the prime-time Nielsen ratings, the Peacock instead appears to be digging itself deeper. Its highest profile new series, The Playboy Club, has shown no hop in its step and is in line to be fall's first new series to be canceled unless the NBC sitcom Free Agents beats it to the cemetery. Neither made prime-time's top 60 in Week 1 of the ratings race among ABC,… read more »
NBC re-loads after shooting blanks with last fall's new series
by Ed Bark on May 16th 2011 at 12:05 am
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NBC will wait until midseason to deploy its new big gun, The Voice. Meanwhile, the Peacock will have six new series on board this fall, most notably a return to Hugh Hefner's sex 'n' skin salad days with The Playboy Club. Set in the 1960s, it harkens to a time when rabbit ears were in vogue on curvy bunnies and many of that era's TV sets. NBC hopes this fall will be much better than last, when all eight of its announced new series proved to be failures. Outsourced, Law & Order: Los Angeles and The Event officially joined the cancellation… read more »
