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UPDATED, 12:07 PM:  LAPD investigators confirmed today that they spoke with boxing champ Floyd Mayweather Jr on Wednesday regarding the killing of Stephanie Moseley by her husband Earl Hayes and that he was cooperative. Detectives added, however, that the information gleaned from that interview, as well as those of…

NBC’s The Voice was the top show in the adults 18-49 demographic on Tuesday in primetime, earning a preliminary 4.5 rating and 9.9 million total viewers to give the network the nightly demo win. It wasn’t such good news for Fox’s Breaking In, which the network moved to its Tuesday night comedy block after canceling it…

After stellar first two weeks, NBC’s new reality series The Voice (4.6/6) dropped 19%, but this is not an apples-to-apples comparison as the show aired a two-hour episode from 9-11 PM last week and an hourlong show last night at 10 PM, losing some of the younger potential audience. Still, The Voice topped the night in…

The CW Network just gave early pickup to almost all of its returning series, including reality veteran America’s Next Top Model, which has been renewed for 2 more cycles, including its first ever All-Star edition in the fall. On the scripted side, picked up for next season are the CW’s flagship series The Vampire Diari…

The coverage of President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address was the main attraction on the Big 4 networks last night, which also marked the return to originals for the CW’s series after a long winter hiatus that was only briefly interrupted for the two-hour finale of Life Unexpected. In its new Tuesday time…

The CW today became the latest network to release its midseason schedule. With only one hole to fill, that of departing sophomore Life Unexpected which did not receive a back order, and one midseason series on deck, reality competition Shedding for the Wedding, the network is moving freshman drama Hellcats to LUX‘s…

It was a tough night all around. ABC did the best with the 44th Annual Country Music Association Awards (4.7/13 in adults 18-49, 16.5 million viewers overall), winning the night in total viewers and all key demographics by a wide margin and posting its strongest Wednesday numbers in a year. Still, it was down 11% in…

There were big swings at 10 PM on a otherwise pretty uneventful Wednesday night. After declining for 2 consecutive weeks and last Wednesday logging CBS’ lowest-rated original telecast in the hour in 7 years last week, the network’s new light legal drama The Defenders (2.5/7, 9.9 million viewers overall) bounced back…

The CW has picked up 6 additional scripts each of Hellcats and One Tree Hill. While short of a full-fledged pickup, a script order is usually a good indication of a network’s faith in a show and often is followed by a back episode order. Four CW series launched this fall with 13-episode orders, freshmen Hellcats and Ni…

After a string of returning series on the CW and NBC premiered lower this fall, CBS veteran Survivor bucked the trend in its new Wednesday 8 PM slot. (Actually, that was Survivor’s original slot when it launched in the summer of 2000 before moving to Thursdays in Season 2.) Survivor: Nicaragua (3.9/12 in adults 18-49…

The CW kicked off the unofficial start of the fall season last night with its premieres of America’s Next Top Model and new series Hellcats. For CW, it is a challenge to turn on the lights and bring viewers in right away as the network pretty much checked out all summer with repeats and the modestly rated reality…

Medical drama presentation HMS is not flatlining just yet even though the options on its cast have expired. The options on the actors originally expired on June 30 but were extended by 7 days to give the network more time to make a decision on a possible midseason order. After another 24-hour extension granted by the…