With this year's Independence Day falling on a Saturday, it was inevitable that the annual Macy's 4th Of July Fireworks Spectacular (0.9/6) wasn't going to be as explosive as previous celebrations. And with an 18% drop among adults 18-49 from 2014 that fizzle was exactly what happened on a much more competitive night…

No surprise here, but CBS today made it official. A pair of freshman series, drama Stalker and comedy The McCarthys, will not be coming back for a second season. They join the <a title="'Battle Creek' Cancelled By CBS; Network Passes On 'Sneaky Pete'"…

In the fall, when The Millers originals on Monday started hurting promising new CBS drama Scorpion, the network swiftly moved in, canceling the sophomore comedy and replacing it with Big Bang Theory repeats until a permanent replacement, Mike & Molly, was brought in. In a similar move, the network has pulled…

As the broadcast networks are taking a breather before they reboot their lineups for midseason, it’s a good time to evaluate this year’s fall season and look ahead at what comes next. It was an OK fall for the broadcast networks. There were several breakouts — ABC drama How To Get Away With Murder and comedy <a href="https://deadline.com/tag/black-ish/" id="auto-tag_black-ish"…

CBS has picked up two more episodes of freshman comedy series The McCarthys for a total of 15. The multi-camera, multi-generational family comedy, from Sony Pictures TV and CBS TV Studios, has been struggling in the Thursday 9:30 PM slot, most recently logging a 1.1 on Thanksgiving. Still, CBS brass were encouraged…

There was a lot to be thankful for if you were the Seattle Seahawks on Thanksgiving Day 2014. There was great NFL primetime game by the Emerald City's Richard Sherman, the less than stellar performance by the San Francisco 49ers' Colin Kaepernick, and of course, the critical breaking of a 5-game losing streak for the…

UPDATE PM: The finals are in, and, as expected, all CBS series between 8:30 PM – 11 PM were adjusted down from the NFL preemption-inflated fast nationals. The McCarthys (1.4), Mom (2.6) and Elementary (1.0) all shed two tenths each. This marks new series lows for The McCarthys and Elementary, down a tenth and two…

It looks like CBS is not throwing in the towel on new comedy series The McCarthys just yet. The network has picked up two additional scripts from the multi-camera family comedy after two — by CBS standards — low-rated airings. While such an additional script order is absolutely no guarantee for an episodic pickup…

UPDATE PM: The finals are in, and the NFL ratings inflation balloon has burst for CBS and NBC with downward adjustments of two-tenths for most shows as both networks aired football games in one market each. New CBS comedy The McCarthys shed two-tenths to a 1.5 rating among adults 18-49. That is down 12% from the…

UPDATE PM: As could be expected following the underwhelming numbers this morning, NBC just moved in to cut the runs of both A To Z and Bad Judge to their original 13-episode orders, effectively canceling the freshman series which will remain in their Thursday slots. The final ratings brought some Halloween horror to…

It was a long, twisting road getting The McCarthys on the air, but just maybe they should have taken more time. As my video reviews says, the CBS sitcom of a sports-obsessed Irish-American family in Boston feels like something you've seen before, a lot. Created by Boston native and Happy Endings writer Brian Gallivan…

Brian Gallivan began a Q&A for his semi-autobiographical CBS sitcom The McCarthys by announcing his family never actually had a DUI, and never carried a dead man's baby. Addressing TV critics at TCA Summer TV Press Tour 2014, Gallivan said he’d explained to his family that a TV comedy requires the characters have…