It’s great news that Barbara Hall’s latest show, featuring Tea Leoni as the US Secretary of State, is getting a full season to show us what makes good TV! Tim Daly, who plays her husband, is a theology professor at Georgetown. According to this article, “Madam Secretary” is beating “The Good Wife” in the ratings. Wow.
From over at Deadline.com, October 27:
CBS has joined sibling CW in giving full-season orders to all of its fall series that have premiered so far: new dramas Scorpion, NCIS: New Orleans, Madam Secretary and Stalker. The orders for the CBS TV Studios-produced Scorpion, NCIS: New Orleans and Madam Secretary are for 9 more episodes, bringing the total to 22 episodes each. It is unclear if Warner Bros. TV’s Stalker also received a full Back 9 pickup.
Scorpion has been one of the surprises of this fall. Boosted by The Big Bang Theory at 8 PM, the new action drama has flourished in the Monday 9 PM slot. In fact, Scorpion is now the highest-rated CBS drama among adults 18-49, averaging a 4.5 rating in the demo in Live+7, and the second-highest-rated new series this fall behind ABC’s How To Get Away With Murder. Scorpion passed with flying colors its first test last Monday when it aired with a softer 8:30 PM lead-in from The Millers vs. Big Bang rerun. Its pickup comes on the eve of the freshman’s first airing tonight with no Big Bang as the hit comedy returns to Thursdays, to be replaced by 2 Broke Girls at 8 PM.
la-et-st-tca-2014-nics-mark-harmon-talks-crossover-with-new-orleans-spinoff-20140717CBS brass are happy with the performance of all four shows. NCIS: New Orleans has displayed better retention out of flagship NCIS than its predecessor in the Tuesday 9 PM slot, fellow NCIS spinoff NCIS: Los Angeles. NCIS: New Orleans and Scorpion also rank as the top two new fall series in total viewers, averaging 18.2 million and 15.2 million, respectively. Madam Secretary has been older skewing but packing viewership on Sundays, while Stalker has been improving its standing with a strong 56% DVR lift in Live+7. “These four shows have had an immediate impact on our schedule by improving nights, winning time periods and adding more hours of success across our primetime lineup,” said Nina Tassler, Chairman of CBS Entertainment.
The pickups of all four new CBS dramas makes the network’s inventory even tighter. CBS has three more dramas on tap for midseason: CLICK HERE to continue reading at Deadline
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