Tooth and claw: NBC puts &#39;Pride&#39; in prime time
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Looking for a hit during prime-time&#39;s comedy drought, NBC is gambling on a long shot: a pricey, computer-generated cartoon. Father of the Pride (Tuesday, 9 pm ET/PT), a fanciful
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&quot;Spider-Man&quot; scaled only moderate Nielsen heights for Fox, the Grinch barely warmed up for ABC, while NBC harvested good but not spectacular numbers for its &quot;Seinfeld&quot; special on Thanksgiving night.
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NBC's Emmy Awards telecast  was the No. 1 show last week, beating back a cheeky challenge  by Jack Sparrow and the 2003 movie "Pirates of the Caribbean:  The Curse of the Black Pearl" on ABC.
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NBC took ratings gold, attracting big prime-time audiences for its first three nights of Olympics coverage. Sunday's 4 1/2-hour broadcast was last week's most-watched show, winning NBC a huge audience of 25.8 million viewers and a 26 percent share of all the evening's viewers.
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One week into its coverage of the  Athens Olympics, television network NBC has mounted a comeback  in viewership worthy of U.S. gold-medal gymnasts, reversing an  early slump to post ratings well ahead of four years ago.
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CBS pounded NBC in their first skirmish of the new TV season on Thursday, prime-time&#39;s richest night. Most stunning, CBS&#39;s &quot;Without a Trace&quot; became the first drama ever to cop a bigger audience
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Numbingly low Nielsen ratings for last week made it clear why NBC this week hired a new team to oversee its prime-time entertainment department.
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"Deal or No Deal" and a new  game show, "Identity," made NBC victorious in Monday primetime  during a night of mostly repeats on the other networks.
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France's first gay and lesbian television station was to go to air, beaming a steady diet of homosexual porn, daily repeats of &quot;Wonder Woman&quot; and English language comedies into subscribers' homes.
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Olympic laurels. NBC swept the Nielsen ratings medals, with its first three nights of coverage in Athens taking the top three prime-time spots last week (Aug. 9-15) in viewers and advertiser-coveted young adults. The surge ...
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NBC led every hour of prime time in Monday nightâs ratings, buoyed by the successful combination of its new hit âAmerican Gladiatorsâ followed by the game show âDeal or No Deal.â Those shows earned the nightâs top ratings among adults 18 to 49, according to Nielsenâs estimates, with âDeal or No Dealâ also drawing the largest audience of the night, 14.1 million viewers at 9 p.m. âAmerican Gladiators,â meanwhile, delivered a more modest 10.1 million viewers at 8. NBCâs âMedium,â which also drew 10.1 million viewers, led the 10 p.m. hour in the 18-to-49 group. Fox finished second for the night in that demographic, thanks to its new show âTerminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles,â which attracted 8.6 million viewers while tying CBSâs comedy repeats in the 9 p.m. hour among adults 18 to 49. CBS, which broadcast reruns all night long, ranked third in that age group, but second in total viewers behind NBC. ABC was a distant fourth. Its âDance Warâ averaged 9.8 million viewers from 8 to 9:30, but its âOctober Roadâ continued to struggle during the 10 p.m. time slot with just 5 million viewers.
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For all those kids who ever bragged of having the world's best father, NBC will soon launch a new show to put such claims to the test on prime-time television -- "My Dad Is Better Than Your Dad."
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Friday night was a good  one for Disney Channel and USA Network.
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Network decides to yank show during Nov. sweeps and shelve it completely after last 6 episodes. NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - NBC is preparing to put its new animated television show &quot;Father of the Pride&quot; on ice, according to a published report.
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Fox claimed all of the top  five shows in the key adults 18-49 demographic last week and  got a solid premiere from David E. Kelley&#39;s drama &quot;Wedding  Bells.&quot;
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In what may give NBC executives some pause about "Father of the Pride," the history of shows promoted with gusto during the Olympics is one of consistent, abysmal failure.
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The race for ratings among the four top U.S. television networks has turned into a tooth and claw battle, with NBC at risk of losing the top spot as ABC makes a surprise comeback, according to media experts.