NBC took Saturday Night Live out of Saturday late-night into Sunday primetime to mark its 40th anniversary. Actually, the veteran sketch show is not turning 40 for another eight months, until October 11, but the network has football then, and it’s sweeps now and there is blank slate on Sunday before NBC’s midseason…

OK, that is really something you don't see every Sunday. If that amazing one-handed catch by the New York Giants' Odell Beckham Jr. wasn't dramatic enough on Sunday Night Football (7.1/18), the comeback by the Dallas Cowboys to a 31-28 win over the NYC team in the Week 12 game certainly was. All of which meant after…

Fox taketh away, and Fox giveth. On the heels of Fox brass’ decision to cut the order of Universal TV-produced freshman comedy series Mulaney by three episodes, the network is boosting the order of another Universal TV comedy, The Mindy Project, by six episodes. Originally picked up for 15 episodes, Mindy will now…

Fox’s low-rated new sitcom Mulaney is getting an expected time-period downgrade. The live-action Sunday comedy, created by and starring comedian John Mulaney, is moving to the 7:30 PM slot, occupied by Bob’s Burgers, effective immediately. Fox’s 7:30 PM half-hour is preempted for an NFL doubleheader this Sunday, so Mul…

Quarterback Ben Roethlisberger and the Pittsburgh Steelers rolled the Baltimore Ravens 43-23 last night on Sunday Night Football, and NBC and the NFL didn't do badly either. With no World Series competition, the battle between old rivals delivered a 6.1/16 preliminary rating with 17.02 million watching from 8:15-11:30…

Fox has trimmed the order for new comedy series Mulaney by three episodes, from 16 to 13. The network made the call after two airings, as the series just wrapped filming Episode 13 and was about to go into production on Episode 14. The multi-camera Mulaney had an unusual 16-episode order as Fox originally picked up 6…

Even with a blowout game and ratings stumble last night, there is little doubt of NBC's Sunday Night Football topping the Sunday Big 4 primetime results. The wild card is whether the Season 5 debut of AMC's blockbuster The Walking Dead will take a bite out of that win or triumph over it. Then there's the fact that…

Oh boy. It’s hard to imagine a worse ratings start for a new series than the 1.0 adults 18-49 fast national and 2.3 million viewers that Fox’s Mulaney pulled in at 9:30 PM last night. It is the lowest-rated new series debut so far this fall, pushing the sitcom starring standup comic John Mulaney to the top ranks of…

UPDATED: Fox has made its first episodic comedy order this pre-upfront week, but it didn’t go one of its pilots. Instead, the network has ordered 10 more episodes of Mulaney, its multi-camera ensemble comedy created by and starring John Mulaney. And I hear that, with three comedy series — New Girl, Brooklyn Nine-Nine…