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NBC is doing a little fall schedule shuffling, moving the premiere of its game show revival Weakest Link back by a day, adding a second night of Dateline NBC and making a few other minor tweaks. The Jane Lynch-hosted Weakest Link now will premiere at 8 p.m. Tuesday, September 29; it had been set to bow the night…

EXCLUSIVE: Dateline NBC is set to launch a new podcast in the true-crime genre. The first two episodes of the six-episode Motive for Murder will drop May 7, followed by one episode each Thursday for the next four weeks. Narrated by Josh Mankiewicz, Motive for Murder, which hails from the team behind Dateline’s…

NBC has booked premiere dates for a quartet of its summer series. The character-driven new procedural drama The InBetween, which origianlly was slated for midseason, now will launch at 10 p.m. Wednesday, May 29. Also set are the returns of long-running newsmag Dateline NBC (June 10) and game shows The Wall (June 20)…

It was a very quiet pre-summer Friday, with NBC’s two-hour Dateline the night’s highest-rated (0.9 adults 18-49 rating in Live+Same Day) and most-watched (5.14 million viewers) broadcast program. Three reality series had their season finales last night. CBS’ Undercover Boss (0.7 in 18-49, 4.9 million) was down 0.2 in…

Thanks to John Wall last night, LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers will have to wait a bit longer to find out who they will face in the NBA playoffs’ Eastern Conference Finals. After an extraordinary final-second 3-pointer on ESPN, the Washington Wizards' point guard slapped down the Boston Celtics and moved his…

On a Friday night that saw Round 2 and 5 of the NFL Draft and NBA Playoffs on cable, primetime saw Hawaii Five-O (0.9/4) topping primetime on the Big 4 among adults 18-49. In fact, while the 50th State set series was down a tenth from its last original of April 14, CBS had the top rated show of Friday and the most…

Fox’s new Friday drama duo of Second Chance and Sleepy Hollow seem to have stabilized after the double-digit ratings drops last Friday. Sleepy Hollow (0.8 in adults 18-49) was up a tenth from the fast national, even with the final last week. Second Chance (0.6) is currently running up a tenth vs. last Friday. Some of…

The fall season has not quite officially started, but ABC rolled out its Friday lineup in force last night. It was a wild night but let's start off with the less-than-bad news: Shark Tank (1.7/6) returned for its fifth season and pretty much held its ground. The entrepreneurial reality series saw a 6% dip from its…

As the clock counts down on The Million Second Quiz (0.8/3) so seemingly do the ratings. Five nights in, the live one-hour Ryan Seacrest multi-platform game show hit a new low on Friday. On a night with no X-Factor, no Big Brother, no new So You Think You Can Dance or any other competition, MSQ was down from…

On a Friday night ruled by repeats, news magazine shows and nothing at all if you have Time Warner Cable and wanted to watch CBS in LA, NYC, Dallas and several other markets, there still was a bit of glam to be found on TV thanks to the CW. Returning for its 20th season, America's Next Top Model (0.6/2) was back last…

In a night that saw CBS' schedule slide due to NCAA basketball overrun, NBC's Sunday was anchored by All-Star Celebrity Apprentice (1.5/4) from 9-11 PM. The reality show saw Team Plan B winning the latest challenge, another C-lister fired by Donald Trump, and Omarosa live to fight another week. Now in its fourth week…

If last night's numbers are any indication, Fox's Fringe (1.1/3) looks to be ending its run on a rise, at least for 2012. On its second to last episode of the year and its fifth to last episode ever, the J.J. Abrams-created sci fi series was up 22% from last week. That December 7 broadcast had been flat with the…