television
Wednesday Abstract: TV Advertising Woes, ‘Twin Peaks’ Scare, Ellen’s Catastrophe

As the ad market for legacy media continues to wane, CBS-TV is doing something about it, l...

television
CBS, ‘Scorpion’ Stomp Competition in Nielsen Ratings

The latest Neilsen ratings were released today, and they're quite interesting, to say th...

television
CBS, NFL Point Way to New Broadcast Paradigm

CBS, long the nation's most popular TV network, has moved strongly into online distribut...

television
NBC Commits to Full Season of ‘Mysteries of Laura, CBS Affirms Four Series

NBC-TV has given a full-season order for new mystery series The Mysteries of Laura. After...

commerce
New CBS Streaming Service Reflects Rapidly Changing TV Market

Hot on the heels of the announcement of a new streaming service from cable channel HBO ...

mysteries
The Amazing Badness of ‘Scorpion’

The new CBS-TV crime-drama series Scorpion is a clear attempt to refresh the cop show g...

television
Colbert to Replace Letterman

Stephen Colbert has been announced as the new host for CBS's The Late Show when current ...

worldviews
Penn: Send Journalists to Prison; Maher: Let’s Talk Later

A bit of video is circulating the 'net in which America Hating Leftist and Dictator Apolog...

commerce
CBS Brings Mixed Martial Arts to Major Network TV

'Big Four' network brings original programming to Saturday nights, chasing MMA's upscale, ...

genres
‘Dexter’ Comes to CBS

This Sunday night at 10 p.m EST, CBS attempts to bolster its writers-strike-depleted prime...

genres
Pale “Moonlight”

Like Pushing Daisies (analyzed earlier on this site), the new CBS drama series Moonlight e...

television
CBS’ “Cane”—Just Depicting Ethnic Strife, or Fomenting It?

The new CBS TV series Cane is something of a return to the 1980s primetime soap opera sty...

commerce
FCC Authority over Indecency Challenged—but Govt. Agency Is Right for Once

When it comes to regulation of communications, usually the FCC and the Congress have it al...

commerce
More Progress on “Jericho” TV Program Return

As we noted two weeks ago, CBS television has been contemplating resurrecting the series J...

mysteries
CSI Gets Religion Big-Time

Religion is all over the place on network TV series now. Many programs just can't seem to ...