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CBS renews Person of Interest, all but makes cancellation of Gifted Man, Unforgettable official

CBS renews Person of Interest, all but makes cancellation of Gifted Man, Unforgettable official

Mar 14, 2012

One of the three genre shows on the CBS network will live to see another season. The network announced that 18 of its shows will return next year, including freshman science friction crime drama, Person of Interest. The two other genre dramas, Unforgettable and A Gifted Man seem destined for the scrap heap as both are pulling in abysmal ratings. The official...

SFTV Ratings: Fringe dominates genre competition

SFTV Ratings: Fringe dominates genre competition

Sep 16, 2008

Last week marked the beginning of summer re-run season is ending as FOX jumped the gun, with the debut of the new science fantasy/horror series, Fringe, on Tuesday. The network also started its new season of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Every other science fiction, fantasy or horror show on broadcast TV last week was still in reruns. In the battle...

Top Genre TV Shows: National Treasure dominates

NBC’s showing of theatrical movie, National Treasure led the meek offering of genre-related programming this past week on broadcast television. The Nick Cage-starring fantasy spy-fi adventure flick beat out repeat episodes of Ghost Whisperer and Chuck to take the genre crown in the few day before the Big 5 networks started rolling out their fall TV...

Genre TV Top 8: Sci-Fi reruns vs. Olympics

Following are the ratings for speculative fiction shows that aired on the broadcast networks August 18-24, 2008 (all shows were in repeat): SHOW | [NETWORK] | Rating (Air Date) 1. (tie) Madagascar [ABC] 1.1 (August 23) 1. (tie) Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles [FOX] 1.1 (August 20) 3. (tie) Smallville [CW] 0.9 (August 24) 3. (tie) Terminator: The...

Top 12 Genre TV: War of the Worlds takes top spot

Broadcast networks turned to a record 12 Science Fiction and Fantasy programs to counter the Summer Olympics - with mixed results. A repeat showing of the Tom Cruise film, War of the Worlds ranked at the most-watched genre TV show of the past week.