Curious what the ratings are for your favorite show? Wondering if it's waiting for the ax to fall? All network-related answers reside at The Programming Insider, a great weekday e-letter from Mediaweek's Mr. Television columnist, Marc Berman. He's got overnight ratings numbers, series opinions, longer-term trend observations, and a fun daily trivia question about vintage tube faves.
Marc is an entertaining read who's also a go-to straightshooter when critics need quotes to shed light on TV's numbers game. He's got decades of experience in the biz, including stints in network research. Yet he's no geek, always appreciating TV from a viewer's perspective. (Please forgive him his Big Brotherobsession.)
This guy loves the tube as much as Dave and I do. And that's no small crush.
Subscribe to The Programming Insider -- it's free -- by visiting the Mediaweek site and clicking on Newsletter Sign Up (top right corner of page, in orange letters). Marc also does a daily podcast, if you want to hear it straight from Mr. Television's mouth.