It may have been an end of summer night but everyone had some skin in the primetime game on Wednesday. CBS had a full slate on Wednesday with the second week of a 2-hour Extant (1.1/4) and an 1-hour Big Brother (2.3/8) at 8 PM. Easily top rated show of the night, BB was even with last week among adults 18-49. Going to…

CBS has made a bet that it can own Wednesdays this summer with its teaming of veteran reality show Big Brother (2.0/8) and freshman sci-fi thriller Extant (1.5/5). If last night was any gauge, the network might be holding a winning ticket. Now granted, with the exception of Fox's So You Think You Can…

Fox's So You Think You Can Dance leaped 31% in the demo last night compared to last week, and tapped off with the top spot (1.7/6), also taking teens, and adults 18-34. It was Dance's fourth broadcast of this summer, and its highest rated too. CBS' lineup of procedural crime drama reruns bagged the biggest overall…

NBC led Wednesday among broadcasters with Game 1 of the NHL Stanley Cup Final (1.7/6) in which the Los Angeles Kings turned a two-goal deficit against the New York Rangers into a 3-2 overtime win. Even so, the game was down 29% compared to last year's fast nationals (2.4/7 with Boston-Chicago). Fox (1.5/5) followed…

ABC has ordered a second season of Motive, its Canadian-made summer drama series. With last week’s renewal of fellow freshman Mistresses and the previous pickup of veteran Canadian import Rookie Blue, ABC will be bringing back its entire summer scripted lineup next summer. Created by Daniel Cerone (Dexter), Motive…

The end of summer saw the end of the two summer series last night with freshmen Hollywood Game Night (1.5/5) and Motive (1.4/4) wrapping their seasons. With NFL pre-season football pre-emptions across the country, expect the inflated ratings for the broadcast networks to be adjusted downward in the final numbers later…

There wasn't an NBA Finals game last night like last Thursday, but there was still heat on Hell's Kitchen (2.0/7). Up against a surprisingly strongly rated NBA Draft over on on ESPN, which ran well past primetime, the Gordon Ramsay series pitted past winners against this season’s final five. In the end no one was…

Monday saw a primetime mix of live shows, encores, finales, premieres and prayers for those in the path of the tornado in Oklahoma. On ABC, the last performance show of Dancing With The Stars (2.5/7) before tonight's Season 16 results finale saw the final four couples strut their stuff once last time. DWTS certainly…

ABC has firmed up the bulk of its summer lineup, which will feature three original scripted series — Canadian crime imports Motive and returning Rookie Blue as well as homemade soap Mistresses. That is more than the 1-2 scripted originals each of the broadcast networks has offered in the last couple of summers. <a href="https://deadline.com/tag/motive/" id="auto-tag_motive"…

After swiftly scrapping planned summer drama series Weird Desk last month, ABC has picked up another original drama for next summer, Canadian import Motive, from former Dexter and The Mentalist exec producer Daniel Cerone. The 13-episode CTV series focuses not on who did the crime, but why the crime was committed in…