Big Losers, but Can Viewers Keep the Pace?
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Some find the contestantsâ drastic weigh loss on âThe Biggest Loser,â the NBC reality series, undermining for its viewers also trying to lose pounds.
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Media & professional: BBC may deal with funding shortfall by making fewer but 'bigger' shows, leading to more repeats.
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NEW YORK  - The "Biggest Loser" finale  and "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" led NBC to a strong  victory Tuesday night in total viewers and adults 18-49,  according to preliminary data released Nielsen Media Research.
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Viewers were preoccupied by the angst and antics of would-be cooks, comics and other entertainers during another slow week on television.
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By Jonathan Storm, The Philadelphia Inquirer  Jun. 24--It's enough to make a critic -- or anybody else who makes less than $1 million a year -- cry.   Big-bucks TV programmers are proving themselves to be stupider than the average-Joe viewer.
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People are more interested in reality TV and the world of celebrities than the real world and the challenges it faces.
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On a night in which Foxâs Super Bowl coverage won a resounding victory in the ratings, ABC, CBS and NBC struggled to attract even meager audiences during prime time. CBS fared best, finishing a very distant runner-up thanks in part to the strength of â60 Minutes,â which drew 5 million viewers at 8 p.m., according to Nielsenâs estimate. This veteran news magazine followed a news special on the National Guard at 7 p.m., âCBS Reportsâ (3.3 million), while repeats of CBSâs âSharkâ and âCold Caseâ attracted 4.2 million and 6.1 million viewers, respectively, at 9 and 10 p.m. ABC, in third place for the night, outpaced CBS in the important demographic of adults 18 to 49, getting a boost later in the night from the 2004 movie with Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro, âMeet the Fockers,â which averaged 4.1 million viewers from 9 to 11. NBC ranked fourth over all with four repeat hours of âThe Biggest Loser,â which averaged 2.3 million viewers.
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Forget squeezing millions from a few megahits at the top of the charts. The future of entertainment is in the millions of niche markets at the shallow end of the bit stream. By Chris Anderson from Wired magazine.
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"The Biggest Loser," the hit reality television show about weight loss, recently launched its fourth season on NBC by introducing 18 new -- and very obese -- contestants ready to shed pounds and perhaps win $250,000.
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No network can get a multihour pregame show right, and Fox didnât, thanks to turning it into an âAmerican Idolâ promotion. But Fox did the football game very well.
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When a big awards show goes starless, the result is something more dire than bad TV, writes Richard Corliss
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Glitzy cable news network vows to be patient as it hopes recent viewership gains continue. By Kevin D. Thompson. SECAUCUS, NJ -- When you first walk into MSNBC&#39;s massive 5,600-square-foot studios, you&#39;re not
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If Roone Arledge invented the modern TV Olympics, Dick Ebersol has imploded it. Everyone wants to watch the Olympics, but they're just too unwatchable -- too much, too fragmented, too staged, too jingoistic, too hyped, too commercialized, too long, too everything. The Olympics no longer feel Olympian. They feel like a sweeps-week sports reality show.
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There's an easy way to separate the winners from the losers. But don't expect the media to help you find it.
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Kid Nation premiered last Wednesday, and the show was, for lack of  a better term, fascinating. It was formulaic and, well, just plain bad. But it was also fascinating. In case you missed it, the premise revolves around sending 40 children to a ghost town in New Mexico for 40 days. The ages of the children range from 8-15, with the majority lying somewhere in the 10-12 range. Once there, the kids will have no supervision beyond that of a couple of camera crew and the host, Jonathan Karsh, who comes and goes randomly, but always to help the kids on their path.    There's all kinds of hullabaloo about whether or not it's ethical to take kids and simply drop them off in the middle of nowhere. Though they immediately showed the largest factor in the parents' decision to let these kids on to a TV show that could do a mind job on them for years: A gold star (cute) worth $20,000. A star is handed out by the "town council" at every meeting, so presumably about 5 kids will go home with prize money. My guess is that at least one of them will also win some ridiculous prize at the end of the show...say a million bucks.    I'd like to say that's where the show gets "better", but it doesn't. On this show no one gets voted off, and everyone's going home a winner.
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The game was a rout, the kind that causes viewers to flip to another channel long before the final buzzer.
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Here's one of the safest bets you'll find this fall: one month into the new television season the media will be filled with stories about how poorly the networks are doing.