Unfortunately the personnel dispute has failed to materialize for the sleazy Criminal Minds. CBS was haggling with them for a while but signed them all for another season a few days ago, presumably for another two seasons (at least) of slimy torture porn for middle-aged suburbanites with no imaginations. Also, its…

Ha ha ha! Yeah, as if that worked for Ringer. Well, I suppose its first episode did pretty well by CW standards, before people realized it was garbage and it fell off a ratings cliff, so maybe you have a point, but this is CBS, the (boring) big leagues. I can't see much crossover between Buffy and the CBS audience…

More success? Not at all. Modern Family was a huge hit right out of the gate and its ratings have slipped each season, though it's still a big hit by ABC's standards, but not like it used to be. So I'd say this is one of those times (which happen more often than you'd think) where the ratings and quality of the show…

So CBS apparently thinks that Robin Williams is still a big star, and that his new show, Crazy Ones, will do better at 9:00 than Two and a Half Men would do? That's peculiar. 2.5 Men is dumb shit for those of us with half a brain, but it still does fairly well in the ratings with its trashy predictability and dick…

I was mystified by that bit of dialogue from Peggy about Dawn. Didn't Peggy say "she wouldn't tell me anything" or did I mishear that bit? And then Peggy said, "she's a good secretary." I was like, guh?

Dads is from Seth MacFarlane so they'll give it a lot of rope. Which it may need, since ABC has just scheduled Marvel's SHIELD in the same slot. If Tuesdays at 8 are especially disastrous for this show, I wouldn't be surprised to see it get a tryout on Sundays at 9:30 while American Dad is temporarily shelved or…

I'm not sure why Todd is so optimistic. Seems like Raising Hope is getting the Fringe treatment, getting burned off on Fridays for a perfunctory final season so it can reach the 88-ish episode threshold required for syndication. That said, if Dads does much worse than Raising Hope's usual semi-poor-to-mediocre numbers…

@avclub-e3f5ab7f02122f95b801e13e2c586d6a:disqus It's not unknown, but it's risky. ABC did it for The Drew Carey Show when it was getting strong ratings…. just before the bottom dropped out precipitously, and then ABC hid their shame by holding it back until summer and double-pumping it to burn it off faster.

I'm definitely no Glee fan, but I suspect it still gets strong numbers in adults 18-34 or at least women 18-34. Fox has shown that it can leverage those demos into REALLY high ad rates. New Girl and Family Guy were raking in massive cash based on adults 18-34 at one point despite not having especially massive adults…

I was under the impression that the studios generally give the networks two free or very very cheap reruns of each episode of every series as a special bonus. It's a package deal, they pay for the first-run episodes and the two reruns are tossed in as a sweetener. Or that's what I've always heard. I'm no expert.

I wonder if they will actually film this in NYC? Most comedies are still made in L.A., but lots of dramas have moved here to NYC. Hey, show creators, if you're going to call your goddamn show "Brooklyn 9-9" then maybe you could actually fucking film it in NYC like all the dramas that have moved here to take advantage…

If it already had enough for syndication then they wouldn't have renewed it. Next season, assuming it's 22 episodes, should bring it to 88 and that'll be enough, so, the end.

"No one forced the show to include children in this particular episode."

@avclub-ea93d61158b479315c8e0d4cd003ec35:disqus Right but WHY would we want to watch them being insufferable brats despite how realistic it is? This is what condoms are for, so that I don't EVER have to put up with any of these monsters of my own! Get them off my TV! I'm sure Gaiman was trying but it didn't work.…

I didn't notice that at the time. Interesting. Maybe he's got the entire Time Lord Matrix compressed into his head somehow?

I presume he meant that it fucked with British culture in ways that we can now recognize are totally awesome, but that traditional conservative British people of ye olden days would have thought were horrible. In the same way that fucking up the Cybermen (TNG "I, Borg" style maybe?) would be horrible for the Cybermen…

For those going into withdrawal, a few weeks ago, I started watching Survivor: Israel 6: VIP (a celebrity edition filmed in Thailand) on the Yerterbs, where someone has posted it with English subtitles. I've only watched two episodes but it's pretty good so far. There are a lot of big, colorful personalities, although…

@avclub-a9f5102dde8ca6e2ef0b18e777e918ed:disqus I very much hope that you are correct. You're also making me wonder if it's "Hantzes" or "Hantzs." I'm going with "Hantzes" now that I've thought about it. It's definitely not "Hantz's" though. The Apostrophe Police are coming for you!

For some reason, NBC had to go first with its schedule this year. There is no "wait to see what CBS does." Them's the rules… though I can't remember who sets the rules or how it rotates each May.

Is he the showrunner for Crossbones? After he wrote a pretty good recent episode of Doctor Who, "Hide," I was thinking he might be up for Doctor Who showrunner if Steven Moffat steps down, but I guess not.