Lauren Graham has been cast in Maura Tierney’s role =).

Well, you’ve seen the ratings and you’ve seen the show.

Me? I see NBC just had to show me with my bold “This is the first NBC show gone” proclamation. Let’s fix that so we’ll get this one right.

“Trauma is the second NBC show gone.”

Wait, they’re not planning on ridding themselves of all things Warner by finally dumping that noxious thing in my gravatar, are they? Okay, scratch that.

“Trauma is the first NBC freshman show gone.”

On second thought, have they even recast whatsherface’s part on “Parenthood” yet? Are they, uh, going to one of these days? Alrighty… um… let’s see here.

“Trauma is the first, second or third freshman and/or otherwise NBC show that is ostensibly not going to be ren–” Oh, screw it — NBC, WILL YOU JUST HURRY UP AND PULL THE PLUG ALREADY?! How dare you screw up my bold prediction with your out-of-left-field pre-cancellation of “Southland!” How DARE you!

Heradite – Despite the worst possbile ratings you can think of, Community isnt going anywhere. Dont count that comedy out, it has good reviews and I believe NBC will do everything they can to save it. The Office, 30 Rock, and Community are the 3 comedies I can see surviving this season.

http://archives.chicagotribune.com/2009/aug/31/entertainment/chi-tc-tvcolumn-old-0828-0831aug31

There’s a lot of old people watching TV it seems if the median age groups are 50 or over for the big 4. Nothing against that, but NBC’s shows are more directed to younger crowds so they are automatically going to dip if they don’t have any appeal to the older crowd.

I’ve been hearing a lot from random places that NBC’s ratings are failing but these are also the only shows I find palatable whatsoever.

I’m not saying I have good or bad taste in TV shows, but the only times I even turn the TV on is for;

House-Monday
P&R, The Office, and Community- Thursday

I watch other shows [Heroes, It's Always Sunny...] via hulu throughout the week.

I’ll also admit I was happy with the SNL Thursday, and I don’t like 30 Rock at all.

Is there anywhere you can find an age distribution breakdown of all the networks? I would think NBC does well with the younger crowd [also fox], all the older watchers seem to like the reality shows. Survivor, American Idol, Big Brother etc. Not me.

NBC might be heading towards CW numbers from several seasons ago, but not CW numbers from *this* season. The CW is down more than NBC is in most demos.

Remember how the past few seasons everyone was saying that “ER” was a rotting corpse. Up against its former self, yes it was, but Southland, Trauma, and Mercy COMBINED probably aren’t gonna equal total viewers for the later seasons of ER.

Leno will probably continue next season because despite lower ratings than they probably expected it still doesn’t cost near as much to produce as NBC’s scripted shows.

If you are a fan of any shows on NBC besides the following you probably should start worrying about your show and its chances for survival:

The Office
The Biggest Loser
30 Rock
L&O (flip a coin to see who stays and who goes between the two)

I would be very surprised if Leno doesn’t get renewed. They took a huge chance with this idea and I doubt they want to admit crushing defeat until they have found something resembling a buzz show. Something the network hasn’t seen since Heroes S1.

5-10 years ago you could have called ABC, NBC, and CBS the “big 3″ networks. This assessment has changed and you almost have to say ABC, NBC, CBS, and FOX are now considered “the big 4″. Not because FOX has risen drastically in ratings, but more likely because NBC has took a nose dive off the cliff and they look hell bent on seeing how far down rock bottom can really get.

What happened? Was it the loss of Friends? The American Idol juggernaut causing people to jump ship to FOX?

When Heroes is doing as poorly as it has been and it still ranking at #2 least likely to be cancelled for the network thus far you can tell how bad of shape NBC is in.

Just imagine the weekly NBC averages if they didn’t have sunday night football? Could they be headed towards CW level lows in the not to distant future or can they rebound?

Just curious, because it’s the one thing almost everyone agrees on, so much so that it’s basically common knowledge, yet I still have no clue why.

The masses are correct that 30 Rock should’ve gone to 8 p.m. so that Community could stay at 9:30 and get a good lead-in. 30 Rock would’ve dropped in the ratings, but not as much as Community will. Community probably won’t do any better than the SNL specials (although I hope to be surprised). If Futurama couldn’t sustain itself in a new timeslot when Fox moved it after only 3 episodes airing behind the Simpsons, then Community won’t have a chance either.

30 Rock could probably manage at least a 2.2 in the demo at 8. NBC, in its current pathetic state, would accept that.

“Community” will last the season, at the very least, on account of a lack of things to replace it (and on account of how wretched “100 Questions” is), but it’s the biggest disappointment of the season for me. It seems to have all the pieces, it just doesn’t have any of them in place. And bringing in John Michael Higgins to upstage the entire cast this week just magnified 1) how much funnier “Kath & Kim” was, and 2) how weak the show’s regular cast actually is. I guess I just expected “Parks” to not have been cast well, since “The Office” wasn’t, either, but Dava Waite-Peaslee did the casting on “Community,” so the show’s total lack of chemistry was surprising to me. I guess you can’t always catch lightning in a bottle — at least not the way that “My Name Is Earl” caught it. I hope that the money NBC saved on a cheaper program and the ability to own a piece of another studio’s show was worth it to them, because they sure didn’t upgrade creatively.

8:00 30 Rock
8:30 Parks and Recreation
9:00 The Office
9:30 Community

Its better to lead the night off with a veteran rather than a new series.

Whoever set up the NBC schedule for Thursday nights with the time switches and poor use of established show lead-ins should be either fired or shot, whichever comes first.

While i agree that returning Chuck early in it’s old slot won’t be any good for a show, i would not be so opposed if they tried it on wednesday. Also Chuck had one thing that other series (outside 30 rock/office) didn’t – lots and lots of positive word of mouth, with last 6 episodes or so getting glowing reviews and viewers opinions.

Also one of the things that renew/cancel index miss is the cost of the show. While it might have been ok for a show that cost $2 million to be getting around 2.5 demo (and since it was licensed only by NBC from WB, the figure was probably quite a bit lower than that for them), it’s completly not ok to show like Trauma getting below 2.0, while it costs $4 million or even Heroes that still probably cost above $3 million (although in Heroes case it will turn profitable for NBC for sure, DVD/BD sales are still quite good, and it probably will sell well abroad).

And Community isn’t my favorite new show this season, but it’s up there (behind Modern Family– definitely the best new show this season). I hope it turns around. The blonde is too cute for TV to lose.

Mercy is a show that actually has some really good writing. I was surprised when I saw the last episode. It’s really sharp sometimes. But its problem is that the lead actress just isn’t likable enough to sell it. It’ll continue to go down. It’s too bad. With a slightly different cast I think it could have been a hit.

* Kidding.

Mercy is 50/50

Chuck S2 dvd’s havent been released yet.

Chuck’s Season 2 finale numbers: 2.4 in the 18-49 demo, 6.2 million total viewers.

Chuck’s DVD sales weren’t all that great, so I don’t expect it to have grown a huge audience while in hiatus.

Everything NBC is has out slowly wilting away. I’d never thought I would see them is such a state.

8:00: 30 Rock
8:30 Parks and Recreation
9:00 The Office
9:30 Community

-30 Rock’s had 3 seasons behind The Office-isn’t it time to give somebody else (and a very worthy somebody else, imo) a chance? Especially a chance that lasts more than three weeks..
-Tina Fey’s fans could easily want to check out Amy Poehler…the two should be paired together…

Community’s going to die. All Thursday promotion is going toward the Office wedding, and nothing else….

It will moved to cable like, Law and Order: CI