CBS Wrote the Number That Made Its Own Watson Cancellation Look Insane
CBS Wrote the Number That Made Its Own Watson Cancellation Look Insane
The figure used all summer to prove CBS made an inexplicable decision about Watson came from CBS. The network wrote the case against itself, in a press release, a year in advance.
The Emmy Drama Race Is Missing the Two Shows Everyone Talks About
The Emmy Drama Race Is Missing the Two Shows Everyone Talks About
Severance is not nominated. Neither is The Last of Us. The drama race two days from now is a fifteen-episode hospital procedural against nine hours of Vince Gilligan, and one of them is doing something the category has not rewarded since 2006.
Spider-Noir Was Cancelled Two Days Before It Won a Pile of Emmys
Spider-Noir Was Cancelled Two Days Before It Won a Pile of Emmys
Prime Video cancelled Spider-Noir on a Friday. Two days later it collected a handful of Emmys. Nobody has said why it was cancelled, and the ratings were fine.
The Most-Watched Show in America Is Also Down 20 Percent
The Most-Watched Show in America Is Also Down 20 Percent
My Life with the Walter Boys is the most-watched show in America and down twenty percent on its own platform. Both headlines ran the same week. Both are correct.
The Reacher Spinoff Has No Book. The Book Comes Out in March.
The Reacher Spinoff Has No Book. The Book Comes Out in March.
Every Reacher season adapts a Lee Child novel. The spinoff arriving next week adapts nothing at all — and the novel it should have been based on comes out in March.
Hulu Says Furious Hit 43 Million Hours. Nielsen Says It Was Not on the Chart.
Hulu Says Furious Hit 43 Million Hours. Nielsen Says It Was Not on the Chart.
Hulu says its crime drama Furious has cleared 43 million hours viewed and that the finale drew 90% more first-day views than the premiere. Both figures came from Disney, to one outlet, on the same day Nielsen published a chart the show does not appear on. Here is what is actually measured.
Mark Harmon Quit Gibbs in 2021. He Is in All Ten Episodes of NCIS: Origins Season 3.
Mark Harmon Quit Gibbs in 2021. He Is in All Ten Episodes of NCIS: Origins Season 3.
Mark Harmon quit Gibbs in October 2021. For two seasons NCIS: Origins used him as a voice describing someone else playing him. On 6 October he returns on screen in all ten episodes of Season 3 — a season that runs ten episodes precisely because CBS cut it nearly in half.
HBO Asked for True Detective With Power Rings, Was Refused, and Got It Anyway Four Years Later
HBO Asked for True Detective With Power Rings, Was Refused, and Got It Anyway Four Years Later
In 2022 a writing team walked away from HBO's Green Lantern series rather than deliver the note they had been given: True Detective with power rings. Four years later HBO has True Detective with power rings, it is the biggest DC launch in HBO Max history, and it still has not been renewed.
Netflix Had Its Biggest Half Ever and Its Smallest No. 1 in Three Reports
Netflix Had Its Biggest Half Ever and Its Smallest No. 1 in Three Reports
Netflix's own numbers for the first half of 2026 are out: a record 97 billion hours watched, and the smallest No. 1 show in three reporting periods. His & Hers took the top spot with 104M views — against Adolescence's 144.8M a year ago.
Every TV Show Worth Your September, With Episode Counts and Drop Patterns
Every TV Show Worth Your September, With Episode Counts and Drop Patterns
September is the month American television stops idling. Fourteen scripted premieres, the Emmys on the 14th, one series ending for good, and a spy show that arrives two days after it may or may not have won Outstanding Drama. Here is what is worth your evening, with dates, episode counts and release patterns.