It looks like NBC is trying to reach over the aisle and enter a new market of targeted viewers: the heterosexual male. NPH conducted an interview with Sports Illustrated’s Andy Gray to publicize and promote the show Best Time Ever, probably partnering with that specific magazine to encourage those who read and keep up with Sports Illustrated. NPH of course has a repertoire on the arts front which is a cross over for women and all other males in the creative/ artistic world of Broadway, music, theater, etc, yet his decline would presumably be at being relateable to the those men who have no focus on the arts and only on last nights game. The strategy here is remarkable for NBC to gather more viewers and such a targeted audience at that, even though NPH comments on his favorite sport as “tennis” and his favorite athletes “alent-wise, it’s Andy Roddick or Rafael Nadal. Looks-wise, it’s Cristiano Ronaldo” which heterosexual males would probably not comment on looks of a player but of course NPH is still being NPH. The conversation quickly becomes diverted from “Best Time “to “How I met your mother” and becomes more of a personal mantra of his preferences, favorite food, favorite Beatles song etc, which seemingly will not help the overall viewership of his new endeavor.

The network did a bold move recently thought by changing the time slot it aired, moving it to its new time Tuesday nights at 8 p.m. ET/PT just before The Voice. NPH says that the move is ” a nice way to look at the last four episodes that we’ve done and really start refining what worked and trying to address what didn’t. And I think it will be an easy thing to accomplish with Jack Black on board. With him comes super-fun energy, amusement and that gung-ho, I’ll-do-anything attitude, which is pretty appropriate for our show.” The show itself is about half-way through its fall season and we look forward to seeing where this new time slot will take us and if the male viewers will tune in or not.

http://www.si.com/extra-mustard/2015/10/12/neil-patrick-harris-interview-best-time-ever

Last weeks’ blog mentioned that people were intrigued, but skeptical about the shows direction, well apparently ABC is not. On October 13, ABC made the call for a full season order of Quantico, so the unfolding mysteries will continue. With this, the series is up to 19 episodes with the possibility of 3 more being created, brining it up to a full 22. The 19 episodes is basically a full order because mid-season ABC has a heavy lineup of shows.

The commitment comes after impressive L+3 and L+7 numbers boosting viewership up another 5 million bringing the show to a total of 12.2 for Week 2. This has been impressive and shows that Quantico can stand-alone since it has been competing against: Sunday Night Football, Week 3 against AMC’s premiere of The Walking Dead along with a weak lead-in from other new ABC drama Blood-and-Oil. This weeks episode may have been titled “Cover” but there’s no hiding the Quantico has proven to be successful.

Viewership in Fox’s “Rosewood” has steadily declined since its series premiere September 30^th 2015. However, Morris Chestnut, who plays lead role of Dr. Rosewood, has been receiving some praise for his charisma and good looks in the comedy-drama series. Many critics argue that Chestnut’s personality and charm is simply not enough to hold the series together. The show holds a 7% score on Rotten Tomatoes, due to the series lack of originality and “wow-factor”. Top critic, Margaret Lyons writes, “Rosewood is a snooze and a half. The dialogue is awful, the series largely humorless, and every move that happens in the pilot is something you’ve seen done better elsewhere.” Thus, a lot of the reviews about “Rosewood” revolve around the fact that the series has been done before. However, I will give “Rosewood” a chance to heat things up as the season continues and gain some originality as it find it’s place in the fall drama slot .