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We have the first Live+3 adults 18-49 lift of more than a ratings point this broadcast season. It was posted by the Season 4 premiere of NBC’s This Is Us. The family drama cemented its status as the highest-rated scripted series on broadcast TV in 18-49 with a +1.1 ratings increase after three days of playback, bring…

NBC’s medical drama New Amsterdam (0.9 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic, 5.54 million viewers) scored its best rating in two months with its Season 1 finale Wednesday, a night that also saw season-enders for CW’s The Flash (0.5, 1.52M) and CBS’ dramas FBI (0.8, 8.50M), steady week to week, and NCIS: New Orleans…

Writer-producer David Schulner is hoping that the hard lesson he learned from his mentor, veteran showrunner Shawn Ryan, during the 2007-2008 writers' strike will inspire his fellow scribes to stand with the WGA in its ongoing battle with Hollywood's talent agencies. That struggle is now completing its third week…

Switching to 8 PM, NBC's The Village  (0.6, 4.112M) grew by 8% in total viewers and hung on to 100% week to week in the demo. Moved to 9 PM, NBC's The Voice (0.9, 6.148M) dipped by 1/10th in the timeslot switch, but remained No. 1 show of the night in the demo. But, with the slot switch, New Amsterdam (0.8, 5.210M)…

With its first Tuesday telecast in five weeks, NBC's The Voice (1.2 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic, 7.2 million viewers) nabbed the night's demo win, while CBS' NCIS (1.1, 11.59M) clobbered the competition in total viewers and topped its nearest time-slot rival The Voice by 4.4 million viewers. Airing its…

NBC has renewed breakout drama series New Amsterdam for a second season. The pickup comes amid strong ratings for the medical drama from Universal TV, one of two hot newcomers at the network this fall. There’s no decision yet on the other, Manifest, from Warner Bros TV, which posted the biggest premiere numbers but…

New Amsterdam is heading to the UK after Amazon picked up the rights to the NBC medial thriller. The drama, which stars The Blacklist's Ryan Eggold, will launch on Amazon Prime Video on 8 February with the first tranche of episodes available and will subsequently air episodes weekly as they run on the U.S…

Sendhil Ramamurthy (Reverie) has been tapped for a major recurring role on NBC’s freshman drama series New Amsterdam. He will play a new doctor. Ramamurthy will be bringing a lot of personal knowledge and experience into the role as his parents and sister are all doctors. Inspired by public hospital Bellevue, New Amste…

UPDATED with finals: With Roseanne’s fate revealed in the series premiere of The Conners last week and the second episode facing Game 1 of the World Series, there was an inevitable Week 2 drop for the family comedy, though ABC probably hoped for a smaller decline. ABC’s lineup was the only one to post major…

The American Music Awards was relocated this year from its longtime mid-late November Sunday berth to an early October Tuesday slot. The move did not fare well. Despite a star lineup, including an opening performance by Taylor Swift, the AMAs (1.8 in adults 18-49 Live+same day, 6.6 million total viewers) was down 25%…

We have the first member of the fall 2018 freshman class to get a back order. NBC has picked up an additional 9 episodes of new drama series New Amsterdam, bringing the full-season order to 22 episodes. The news came after another solid ratings showing for the rookie last night. New Amsterdam, from NBC sibling…

Snapshot updated with finals: New series Week 2: NBC's New Amsterdam (1.5 Live+Same Day rating in 18-49, down 21% after downward adjustment; 7.4 million viewers), CBS' FBI (1.2, down 8%; 10.1 million); Returning series Week 2: NCIS, NCIS: New Orleans and Lethal Weapon even with Week 2 in 18-49, all other shows…