NET 8PM 8:30PM 9PM 9:30PM 10PM 10:30PM ABC Once Upon a Time Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Movie) CBS Amazing Race 19 The Good Wife CSI: Miami HBO Boardwalk Empire Luck FOX The Simpsons Cleveland Show Family Guy American Dad! NBC Football Night in America Sunday Night Football: Giants at Cowboys MISC Dexter(SHO, TMN in [...]

VS. = Indicates how show performed versus their previous NEW airing. Source: MediaWeek, Ratings: in millions Time Network Show Rating 18-49 VS. 8PM CBS Frosty the Snowman 7.30 1.1/4 ABC Extreme Makeover: HE 4.74 1.1/4 NBC Chuck 3.66 1.0/3 FOX Kitchen Nightmares (R) 2.77 1.0/3 CW Nikita (R) 1.31 0.3/1 8:30PM CBS Frosty Returns 6.45 [...]

The Good: The NFL didn’t go on strike, allowing for Sunday Night Football to be singled out as one of the only bright spots on NBC’s disastrous Fall schedule. Also good, if only because we feel somewhat bad to move onto the negative so quickly, SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE had a uncharacteristically solid first half of [...]

NET 8PM 8:30PM 9PM 9:30PM 10PM 10:30PM ABC Extreme Makeover: Home Edition 20/20 CBS Frosty the Snowman Frosty Returns Yes, Virginia The Elf on the Shelf Blue Bloods (R) CW Nikita (R) Supernatural (R) FOX Kitchen Nightmares (R) Fringe (R) NBC Chuck Grimm Dateline NBC MISC The Take (Encore) Boss (Starz)Sanctuary (Syfy)

This week in Awesome: Not only did PARKS AND RECREATION have Leslie taking a page from FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS’ Coach Eric Taylor (“Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, Can’t Lose”) in an effort to inspire the troops, the episode’s final scene that saw her hard-working staff dedicate the next few months of their lives to her election [...]

VS. = Indicates how show performed versus their previous NEW airing. Source: MediaWeek, Ratings: in millions Time Network Show Rating 18-49 VS. 8PM CBS The Big Bang Theory 14.42 4.7/14 FOX The X Factor 9.94 3.0/8 ABC Wipeout 6.63 1.9/5 NBC Community 3.61 1.5/4 CW The Vampire Diaries (R) 1.24 0.4/1 8:30PM CBS Rules of [...]

• TV to Tweet about… Can detonate plot spoilers in an instant! • From the Department of the More the Merrier, ABC orders extra episode of CASTLE. • SMASHing News: Uma Thurman signs on for a multi-episode arc. • Man Unemployed! ABC pulls MAN UP! from the schedule. • It’s Ryan Seacrest’s World, we’re all [...]

The Good: For the second time in the Network’s history, Fox came out on top during the pivotal November Sweeps period where it counts, in the coveted 18-49 demographic. But before we get into at what cost (more on that later) let’s focus on the positive. Helping to contribute to Fox’s boffo Fall was newcomer [...]