A "Meet Your Finalist" episode of ABC's American Idol (0.9 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic, 5.42 million viewers) on Monday slipped to the series’ lowest-yet results in the demo and total viewers. Despite the lower Idol lead-in, ABC's The Fix (0.5, 3.23M) hung on week to week with its fourth 0.5 demo rating in…

The Neighborhood is set to take on an issue you don't often see on network TV — white privilege — the advantages certain segments of society enjoy because of race. The season finale of the CBS sitcom, airing April 22, will use humor to examine how black and white Americans are treated differently when they enter…

With all the division and emphasis on negativity in the country these days, The Neighborhood executive producer Jim Reynolds told TV critics at TCA on Wednesday he's trying to "put forth a dialogue and have a cultural conversation with kindness which was always the intention of the show.” After one TV critic described…

We have the first freshmen of the 2018-19 season to score pickups for next season. CBS has given early renewals to dramas FBI and Magnum P.I. and comedy The Neighborhood. The moves hardly are unexpected as CBS brass have been happy with the performance of the three newbies; the only surprise in today’s announcement is…

NBC’s two-hour The Voice  (1.7 rating in the adults 18-48 demo, 8.958 million viewers) topped Monday’s Big 4 competition in total viewers and the demo. Following the singing competition, NBC’s Manifest (1.1, 6.100M) ranked No. 1 at 10 PM in the demo, though with a season-low rating pending afternoon updates. ABC’s 10…

CBS has handed back orders to three more freshman series, multi-camera comedy The Neighborhood and dramas Magnum P.I. and God Friended Me. The sizes of the pickups are not being revealed, but I hear that The Neighborhood‘s order is around nine episodes, which would bring its first season to a 22, and Magnum P.I. and Go…

2nd UPDATE Oct. 10: The saga of the Monday Oct. 9 primetime ratings took another unexpected turn this morning when Nielsen revised those odd official Live+same ratings for The Good Doctor from 1.2 rating in 18-49 and 7.477 million viewers to a 1.1 and 7.176 million viewers. Nielsen served a head-scratcher yesterday…

Snapshot, updated with finals: New series premieres: The Neighborhood (CBS, 1.3 rating in 18-49, 8.1 million viewers), Happy Together (CBS, 1.0, 5.9 million); New series Week 2: Manifest (1.8, -18%, 8.5 million), Magnum P.I. (0.9, -25%, 6.3 million). All returning series slipped in Week 2 except for NBC’s The…

The new CBS series The Neighborhood could easily be an Odd Couple-esque sitcom in which two very different families live next door to one another, and hilarity ensues. The comedy about a white family moving into a predominantly black neighborhood will certainly go for laughs, but producers said at TCA today that they…

UPDATED with trailer: CBS has released the full trailer for its upcoming comedy series The Neighborhood with the first footage of new cast members Max Greenfield and Beth Behrs. The pilot was re-shot after the recasting of Greenfield and Behrs, who replaced Josh Lawson and Dreama Walker, who played the leads in the…

Former 2 Broke Girls star Beth Behrs is returning to CBS. She has been tapped as a female lead opposite Max Greenfield and Cedric the Entertainer in the network’s new comedy series The Neighborhood, from Aaron Kaplan's Kapital Entertainment and CBS TV Studios. Behrs will play Dave’s ( Greenfield) wife Gemma. She…

New Girl‘s Max Greenfield has been tapped as a lead opposite Cedric the Entertainer in CBS newly picked up comedy series The Neighborhood (fka Welcome to the Neighborhood), from Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment and CBS TV Studios. Greenfield is replacing Josh Lawson, who played the role in the pilot. Written by…