Lipstick Jungle

Knight Rider and Lipstick Jungle outperformed NBC’s 2009 Wednesday night

source: TVbytheNumbers

The headline above is probably how I should’ve headlined this post, which takes a look at how several shows did a year ago.  I know Bill misses the days of one hour blocks of ‘Til Death on Wednesdays! Share:

Published Thu, Oct 1

Death To Your Favorite TV Show!

source: blogs.timesunion.com

Boston Legal, ABC Crusoe, NBC Cupid, ABC Do Not Disturb, FOX Eli Stone, ABC ER, NBC Kath & Kim, NBC Kings, NBC Knight Rider, NBC Life, NBC Life on Mars, ABC Lipstick Jungle, NBC My Name Is Earl, NBC Prison Break, FOX Samantha Who?, ABC Sit Down, Shut Up, FOX The Unusuals, ABC

Published Fri, May 22

Ben Silverman Explains NBC’s New Standard

source: New York Magazine

  USA So Lipstick Jungle, My Own Worst Enemy, Knight Rider, Crusoe, Kath & Kim, and Kings have all been ratings debacles for TV's fourth-place network — none of that's important! In a Times piece yesterday on next week's Office non-spinoff Parks and ...

Published Mon, Mar 30

NBC pulls Chopping Block from schedule

source: TVbytheNumbers

NBC is fortunate to have Jay Leno’s 10 p.m. talk show in the fall considering how many slots are getting cleared out this season. Counting “Chopping Block,” six series are definitely not returning — “Knight Rider,” “My Own Worst Enemy,” “Crusoe,” “Lipstick Jungle” and “ER.” A couple midseas...

Published Thu, Mar 26

Dreaming out loud: saving the Nielsen ratings challenged fan favorites

source: TVbytheNumbers

Nobody Does Scale like TV NBC: Life, Lipstick Jungle, Knight Rider, My Own Worst Enemy, potentially FNL (I’m leaving Chuck out in hopes it wouldn’t be sent to the Castoff Network!) ABC:  Eli Stone, Pushing Daisies, Dirty Sexy Money, Life on Mars

Published Sat, Mar 14

TV Press Tour slouches towards its merciful conclusion with a sad, resigned sigh from NBC

source: San Gabriel Valley Tribune

So here's the news: Bromstad thinks, "We still have some amazing quality shows on the air" and "Knight Rider" and "Kath & Kim" are "fair tries." They're "thrilled" to have Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien on the network. The network has still not officially cancelled "Lipstick Jungle." And th...

Published Thu, Jan 15

Yet even more additional woes for NBC, which has plenty to begin with; ABC pals around with terrorists

source: San Gabriel Valley Tribune

Hard to say which is the worse news for NBC: the fact that it has canceled "My Own Worst Enemy" and "Lipstick Jungle" for lousy ratings, or the fact that it has given full-season pickups to "Knight Rider," "Life" and... NBC has hired Diogenes to search for an honest-to-goodness hit show.)

Published Thu, Nov 13

NBC Pulls New Shows From Paley Preview Series

source: Television Week

NBC is keeping its new fall shows under wraps a little while longer. The network had planned to screen newcomers “My Own Worst Enemy,” “Kath & Kim,” “Crusoe” and “Knight Rider” next Monday as part of the Paley Center for Media’s annual fall preview screening series. All five major broad...

Published Tue, Sep 2