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The first Sunday after the 2014-15 television season officially ended was fairly light on originals with repeats all over the schedule and some intense NBA Playoff action over on cable. But that didn't mean there wasn't a finale on broadcast plus some very very fast cars and some ongoing freshman newbies on NBC. With…

Taylor Swift dominated the Billboard Music Awards for the second time in three years, matching her 2013 haul of 8 trophies and leading the awards show franchise to another strong ratings performance. From 8-11 PM, the 2015 Billboard Music Awards (11.1 million viewers, 3.7 in adults 18-49), which kicked off with the…

UPDATE SATURDAY AM: I hear that, despite not getting a series pickup, legal drama pilot Doubt may still be in contention with a possibility for reshooting the pilot. On the comedy side, multi-camera The Half of It still appears in the running, possibly for midseason. FRIDAY AM: With ABC and the CW done with their new…

CBS has started to make calls on its bubble series. I hear midseason drama Battle Creek has been cancelled. There is no official word yet but CBS’ other bubble freshmen, drama Stalker and comedy The McCarthys, also are not expected to come back. There had been some talk that one of two CBS projects from David Shore…

UPDATED: TV network executives have long said that they don’t rely on Live+Same day ratings when making renewal decisions. And for good reason. Three new Sunday midseason series have performed so-so to OK in Live+Same Day but have posted solid ratings gains after 3 days of DVR viewing. That includes ABC mystery drama…

The competitive Sunday landscape is still settling in following the arrival of new additions Last Man on Earth, Secrets & Lies and Battle Creek and the onset of the daylight saving time, with TV usage slipping for a second consecutive Sunday. The three Sunday newbies are taking on different ratings trajectories. The…

After last week's Night of the Three Premieres, everything has started to settle down on Sundays with the networks' new schedules finding their respective footing on the first night of Daylight Saving Time – some sturdier than others. It should be noted that the overall 18-49 usage levels dipped and dropped from last…

Will Forte’s Last Man On Earth became a rare comedy breakout last night, which also featured the debuts of dramas Secrets And Lies and Battle Creek.  Fox’s Last Man premiered with a 2.3 rating among adults 18-49. While that is tied for the fourth-biggest new comedy series debut this season, the majority of the other…

You can keeping on being one of the many who are calling Saul, but there's another new Vince Gilligan series coming to TV on Sunday night with the debut of Battle Creek on CBS. As my video review above says, the crime drama starring Dean Winters and Josh Duhamel as a mismatched local cop and an FBI agent who are truly…

CBS has firmed up its drama plans for the rest of the season. After recently slotting the final season of The Mentalist, the network has now scheduled its two new midseason drama series, Vince Gilligan-David Shore’s Battle Creek and CSI: Cyber. There is a surprise — at the upfront in May, CBS announced that the latest…

Vince Gilligan wrote the pilot for CBS's new cop drama Battle Creek so long ago – 12 years – that he can't remember why he decided to call it Battle Creek. Star Josh Duhamel reminded Gilligan he'd told him that when he was a kid he was eating breakfast cereal and saw the name on the side of the box. Gilligan let it…

Kal Penn has been cast in a pair of indie movies to be shot this summer while on hiatus from his new series Battle Creek, the high-profile drama from Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan and David Shore that CBS has lined up for a midseason bow. Penn has joined Benjamin Fox’s Stereotypically You, playing a serial…