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American Idol's second live-across-country broadcast (1.8 demo rating, 8.6 million total viewers) drove ABC's easy Sunday win in the 18-49 demographic. While down a hair relative to last Sunday's first live Idol-cast on ABC, the already renewed reboot of the singing competition finished No. 1 for the night in the age…

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains details of tonight's Last Man On Earth episode “Got Milk?” Sunday night's episode of Last Man on Earth imagines a world were Donald Trump is no longer president, and instead current vice president Mike Pence has taken on the role of commander-in-chief. In the latest episode of Will…

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…

There was a little basketball bouncing around Sunday's primetime, but for the most part it was the same old game with a mix of originals and encores on the Big 4. In fact, the mix even caused some shows to gain ground — especially in the contested 9 PM slot. Four weeks into its 10-episode run, ABC's Secrets & Lies…

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…

"It is embarrassing the little amount of research" that went into the making of Fox's new single-camera comedy series The Last Man on Earth, creator/EP/star Will Forte admitted this afternoon to TV critics at Winter TV Press Tour 2015. "I watched that show Life After People several years ago and tried to remember what…

Mad Men‘s January Jones, Mel Rodriguez (Getting On), Kristen Schaal (Flight of the Conchords) and Cleopatra Coleman (Step Up Revolution) have joined creator/star Will Forte in the cast of his midseason single-camera comedy series for Fox Last On Earth. The straight-to-series project, whose pilot episode will be…