SpotVault - Marvel's Agent Carter (ABC) - 2014-15 Ratings

Marvel's Agent Carter

Tuesdays, 8/7c, ABC

SpotVault - MasterChef Junior (Fox) - Winter 2015 Ratings

MasterChef Junior

Tuesdays, 8/7c, Fox

SpotVault - Galavant (ABC) - 2014-15 Ratings

Galavant

Sundays, 8/7c, ABC

SpotVault - The Bachelor (ABC) - Winter 2015 Ratings

The Bachelor

Mondays, 8/7c, ABC

SpotVault - Celebrity Apprentice (NBC) - 2014-15 Ratings

Celebrity Apprentice

Mondays, 8/7c, NBC

The Question, Wednesday 1/7/15: Will Fox Begin Rebuilding its Empire?

American Idol premiere night was once the beginning of a four-month run of overwhelming ratings domination for the Fox network. Now, the network just crosses its fingers for slowed year-to-year bleeding and an Idol big enough to keep it somewhat competitive. But there's added pressure on the former Death Star's premiere this year because it will lead into a new drama, the hip hop musical Empire. Musical dramas have run the gamut from huge (Glee) to consistently modest (Nashville) to megabomb (Viva Laughlin), and Fox could really use something toward the positive end of that spectrum. Will Fox begin rebuilding its Empire? That's The Question for Wednesday, January 7, 2015.

The Question, Tuesday 1/6/15: Will Agent Carter Be a Ratings Marvel?

For the second time in three nights, ABC is premiering a short-run show designed to fill in for a serialized drama during its hiatus. In this case, that show is ABC's second dip in the Marvel Comics pool, Marvel's Agent Carter. Though it's not quite as closely tied to the ongoing stories in the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Agents of SHIELD, it also brings a prominent character from one of those movies to the table. It explores the 1940s life of Peggy Carter, one of the lead characters in the first Captain America movie. Will Agent Carter be a ratings marvel? That's The Question for Tuesday, January 6, 2015.

Best Case/Worst Case, January 2015: Galavant, Agent Carter, Empire and More!

Welcome to the Best Case/Worst Case for broadcast television's January premieres! I couldn't come up with a good way of splitting up these 11 shows into multiple posts, so I'm knocking out the whole month now.

The Question, Sunday 1/4/15: Will Galavant Make Ratings Music?

The winter TV season really gets going tonight, a Sunday evening with no primetime NFL game but a lot of overall viewership due to the NFL playoff games in the late afternoon. Of greatest interest in the entertainment world is ABC's premiere of musical comedy "extravaganza" Galavant. It's certainly not the typical broadcast series, and it's gotten a solid amount of promotion through the holiday season. But ABC is double-pumping the full run across just four weeks in January, ending the show before February sweeps. Will Galavant make ratings music? That's The Question for Sunday, January 4, 2015.

Schedules Plus Update, Fox (2001-02 & 2002-03)

Schedules Plus looks at the evolution of network schedules and timeslots using numbers adjusted for historical decline. These update posts, looking back on the newly added 2001-02 and 2002-03 seasons, will link back to the now updated full posts for each day, and the update posts have exclusive year-to-year trends and ranks among the 13 iterations of each hour.

Many more disclaimers can be seen on the individual pages, but the Fox posts (unlike the others) include both fall and winter lineups, since their schedules change often enough to make it worthwhile. Please also note that the 2003-04 thru 2005-06 numbers still contain the "old" A18-49+ scores from before I filled in the missing data from those seasons. So those numbers will change (slightly) when the 2014-15 numbers are entered this summer.