The fall TV season’s first casualty is “The Beautiful Life: TBL,” the CW network’s mostly unseen drama about the “glamorous” world of modeling. After two airings with low and really low ratings (barely over 1 milion this week), the CW…

The early ratings are in, and as expected, “The Jay Leno Show” drew big numbers – close to 18 million viewers — in its debut Monday night. With a strong lead-in from the final performances on “America’s Got Talent,” plus weak…

Nina Dobrev in "The Vampire Diaries."

I was bored, and so was my target-demo consultant (female, age 19), but Thursday night’s “Vampire Diaries” was a big hit for the CW. This from Joe Adalian at TheWrap.com:

Bloody hell: The CW’s “The Vampire Diaires”…

Jon Hamm and Annie Little in the "Mad Men" Season 3 premiere.

AMC was celebrating Monday after “Mad Men” — critically acclaimed for two seasons without a huge jump in the ratings — jumped 34 percent from the Season 2 premiere,…

The full list is courtesy of ABC, which marks its own programs with an asterisk.

I. T. R. S.
RANKING REPORT
01 THRU    81 (OUT OF    81 PROGRAMS)
DAYPART: PRIMETIME MON-SUN
FROM 07/20/09 THROUGH 07/26/09
REGULAR AND SPECIAL PROGRAMS
LIST RANKED BY: VIEWR   2+  (000)

RANKING REPORT WE…

Ratings were great for the premiere of “Nurse Jackie,” and Showtime jumped right in to pick up the new Edie Falco comedy-drama for a second season.

“Jackie earned the best premiere ratings for any Showtime debut since 2004, when Nielsen changed the…

Gwyneth Paltrow with Conan on Thursday

Will the Conan-lovers and Conan-haters ever agree? Doubtful. The divide is all about sense of humor, and nothing’s more personal than that. As they say, where comedy is concerned, the only possible review is “I laughed.”…

Just as “Kings” fans were realizing NBC had moved it to Saturday from Sunday, the network has pulled the limited-run series altogether. As of this week (April 25), repeats of “Law & Order: SVU,” “Southland” and “Law & Order” will fill…

For a change today, let’s look at the TV rankings for the season to date, No. 1 (”American Idol”) through 185 (”Easy Money”). The list is courtesy of ABC, which marks its own shows with an asterisk.

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RANKING…

Thompson and McShane

NBC is yanking “Kings” from Sundays (as of now) and running the remaining eight episodes on Saturdays, beginning April 18. That’s good news as well as bad news; at least the ambitious, serialized drama (low-rated, but picking up…