DC’s Legends of Tomorrow lifted the CW to its most-watched and highest-rated Thursday night in years. The series premiere of Legends logged a 1.2 rating in adults 18-49, topping ABC and NBC in the 8 PM hour and landing the CW its highest time-period rating since The Vampire Diaries’ 100th episode on January 26, 2014. L…

Originally ordered as an limited/event series, Heroes Reborn will remain that. At TCA today, NBC Entertainment chairman Bob Greenblatt confirmed that there will not be a second installment. “Yeah, I think that was always the plan unless (creator) Tim (Kring) woke up one day and said I have another chapter to tell,&#8221…

Unless you were watching the Buffalo Bills beat the New York Jets 22-17 last night, there wasn't a lot of movement in primetime on Thursday – at least not in ratings. With the exception on Heroes Reborn (1.1.4) and Grey's Anatomy (2.2/8) almost every thing else on the Big 4 and the CW was even with last week. While…

UPDATE 2:45 PM: Major downward adjustment for most of CBS’ series as projected. The Season 3 premiere of Mom (1.5) at 9 PM fell a whopping -.5 from its fast national and is now down -40% from its Season 2 opener behind The Big Bang Theory at 8:30 PM. The Season 4 premiere of Elementary (1.1) fell -.4 and is off  by…

Against NFL football and two games in the now-underway baseball playoffs, broadcast entertainment programs posted a third consecutive night of week-to-week ratings drops virtually across the board. Thursday features some of the most time-shifted series on network TV, and the night offers an unusually heavy drama…

MastersFX is going to have a busy fall. The effects studio has announced a robust slate of current and upcoming television projects that includes The CW’s The 100 and SyFy’s The Magicians, in addition to completed projects soon to be seen on shows such as NBC’s Heroes Reborn, and the CW’s iZombie and The Flash. The…

How To Get Away With Murder was the big story 2014 fall Premiere Week, with a very strong Live+Same Day rating (3.9 in 18-49) followed by a monster DVR lift (1.9 rating in Live+3), edged only by the season premiere of blockbuster comedy The Big Bang Theory (2.0). After a surprisingly large -32% drop in its Season 2 pre…

Snapshot: New series premieres – NBC’s Heroes Reborn* (2.0, with .1 upward adjustment in the finals), The Player (1.2); ABC’s TGIT down in return (especially HTGAWM), still formidable.  There was improvement though NBC’s Thursday night remains a work in progress after a solid launch against Thursday Night Football for…

There's a massive explosion at the beginning of NBC’s Heroes Reborn, but unfortunately the fireworks don't carry over to the rest of the limited-series revival from creator Tim Kring. As I say in my video review above, part of the potential stall for fans of the 2006-10 superhero series is that Heroes Reborn lacks the…

Regardless of the critical discussion focused on darlings like last night’s best drama Emmy winner HBO’s Game of Thrones, Broadcast network shows still rule the roost in the social media discussion of TV says a new study by Adobe Digital Index. Even as television studios have improved their social media promotion game…

“I was watching the Winter Olympics and saw the ad for Heroes Reborn and the other actors and I began texting each other if we knew about this,” says actor Jack Coleman aka Noah Bennet, adopted father to cheerleader Claire, on how he found out about the miniseries reboot of the fan fave Heroes show on NBC. He was one…

NBC announced at the TCA Summer Press Tour today that the premiere of Heroes Reborn on September 24 will now be a two-hour affair, running from 8-10 PM. That means the network will push by a week the Season 3 premiere of The Blacklist, originally scheduled to bow in that 9 PM slot. It now will premiere on October 1 at…