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…

Why is Supergirl a CBS and not a CW series, a TV critic asked during CBS’ TCA executive session, which started off with CBS chairman Nina Tassler congratulating sibling CW on its Golden Globe win for Jane The Virgin‘s Gina Rodriguez. Tassler said she’d been a fan of the genre since developing The New Adventures Of Supe…

As expected, CBS has summoned veteran Mike & Molly to fill the hole left by Friday’s cancellation of sophomore comedy The Millers. Somewhat surprisingly, Mike & Molly will premiere its fifth season in just three weeks, on December 8, leaving little time for a meaningful promotional campaign and launching just as most…

CBS has pulled the plug on sophomore comedy The Millers. The sitcom will film one more episode, so the below-the-line crew gets paid, before shutting down production. The Millers is set to air this coming Monday. The fate of the remaining completed episodes beyond that is unclear but CBS will likely pull the show…

The Millers last night matched The McCarthys‘ woeful 1.5 rating among adults 18-49 from last Thursday to hit a series low. Both family comedies are seriously testing CBS brass’ patience. No CBS comedy series has ever fallen under a 1.6 demo rating with an original lead-in and allowed to continue in its time slot. Both…

A championship winning NBA player may have made up the thrust of last night's The Millers (1.6/5) but there was no gold ring around for the shaky CBS comedy. After kicking off its second season with two weak weeks, The Millers dipped 6% in Week 3 and hit a series low in preliminary ratings last night. With results…

UPDATE, 2 PM: The final numbers are in, and things look even brighter for CBS’ Scorpion and grimmer for The Millers. Scorpion went up a tenth to a 2.3 adults 18-49 rating. The action drama successfully passed its second test, dropping only a tenth in its first airing with no Big Bang Theory on the night. The series…

It is Mission Accomplished for The Big Bang Theory on Monday. The blockbuster comedy was tasked with launching similarly themed new drama Scorpion this fall, and it did. After being nurtured for four weeks with back-to-back episodes of Big Bang Theory in front of it, Scorpion got its first test last night, the last…

Scorpion has been described as Big Bang Theory in an action procedural setting, and the two shows about science geniuses showed compatibility this past Monday when the hourlong season premiere of Big Bang helped the hourlong Scorpion launch to promising numbers. Now CBS brass want that momentum going, and they are…

Emmy winner Sean Hayes has been cast as a series regular in CBS’ comedy The Millers, the network said today. Hayes will play Kip Withers, Carol Miller's (Margo Martindale) new best friend and a new source of friction for Nathan (Will Arnett), Carol's son. His character will be introduced during the series’ Season 2…

Christy Grosz is an Awardsline contributor. After building a career on comedic characters he calls "eccentric," Will Arnett is back in primetime with CBS' The Millers, playing TV journalist Nathan Miller, a recent divorcee who finds himself living with his mother. Arnett is more of a leading man than he has been in…

We finally have some comedies to go with those three new dramas that had been picked up so far this fall. As expected, CBS has given Back 9 orders to The Crazy Ones, The Millers and Mom. The pickups come as Crazy Ones and The Millers ticked up by a tenth in the 18-49 fast nationals last night. While Mom slipped by a…