As reported earlier, NBC has cancelled their Thursdays at 10pm drama Allegiance from the schedule effective immediately. The Slap mini-series, which as been airing at 8pm on Thursdays is shifting to 10pm for its final four weeks on the air.
The network is filling the 8pm timeslot with themed editions of Dateline NBC in hopes of giving The Blacklist some better lead-in support.
Here are the details:
“DATELINE: THE REAL BLACKLIST” TO LEAD INTO HIT DRAMA “THE BLACKLIST” TO FORM TWO-HOUR THURSDAY-THEMED PROGRAMMING BLOCK
Veteran Reporter Richard Engel to Host Award-Winning Newsmagazine
UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. – March 6, 2015 – Designed as a themed two-hour programming block that joins the forces of both the news and entertainment divisions, NBC will air “Dateline: The Real Blacklist” at 8 p.m. Thursdays beginning March 12, leading into “The Blacklist” at 9 p.m.
“The Slap,” which currently airs at 8 p.m., will shift to the 10 p.m. timeslot.
“Dateline: The Real Blacklist” will be hosted by NBC News’ Richard Engel and focus on conspiracy-themed investigations and crimes that involve larger-than-life perpetrators and circumstances.
For the March 12 “Dateline: The Real Blacklist,” Engel has more on the murder case that is currently the subject of a new official inquiry in Great Britain. He investigates the 2006 poisoning death of former Russian spy and businessman, Alexander Litvinenko. Engel traveled to London, Moscow and Rome to take a deeper look into Litvinenko’s death, the murder investigation and the players involved in the case. He also spoke with the former Russian security agent, who’s now a chief suspect in the case.
In future telecasts of “Dateline: The Real Blacklist,” the show will report on John McAfee, the former antivirus pioneer who has remained a person of interest to police in their investigation into the murder of Gregory Faull in Belize. “Dateline: The Real Blacklist” will also go on the trail of the Pink Panther Gang, the famous jewel heists who have fooled some of the world’s most experienced detectives.
In “live plus three day” ratings results for “The Blacklist” since moving to Thursdays, the drama has improved the time period for NBC by +175% in adult 18-49 rating versus prior regularly scheduled entertainment programming, with a 3.3 rating versus a prior 1.2 average, according to Nielsen Media Research. In total viewers, the improvement has been 9.0 million persons (13.3 million vs. 4.2 million). The most recent telecast on Feb. 26 jumped +12% versus the prior in adult 18-49 rating (1.9 vs. 1.7) to the show’s top results since its Feb. 5 Thursday debut.
So far this season, “Dateline NBC” has averaged a 1.5 rating, 5 share in adults 18-49 and 7.0 million viewers overall with its Friday edition and a 1.2/3 in 18-49 and 5.7 million viewers overall with its Sunday telecast. That Friday total-viewer average of 7.0 million is “Dateline’s” highest at this point in the season in five years, since the show was delivering 7.7 million on Fridays during the 2009-10 season.
Through its first three weeks, “The Slap” has averaged a 1.0 rating, 3 share in adults 18-49 and 4.8 million viewers overall according to “most current” ratings from Nielsen Media Research, and has been a solid upscale attraction, delivering a 123 index of adults 18-49 living in homes with $100K+ incomes (“most current” including L+3, with 100 representing an average concentration of those homes).
What do you think? Is this a good move for NBC? Will you check out the special editions of Dateline?
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13 Comments on "Dateline: The Real Blacklist to Replace The Slap on Thursdays"
Slap is not all that, give me a break. Not worth watching. Thank You!
Why is it that good shows get cancelled?? Allegiance was just beginning to get interesting. Shouldn’t you give a bit more time to a show before cancelling?? As for The Slap, I personally think that it is a really well written and intelligent show. Would have done better on HBO or Showtime.
This is what I don’t get: why is it that the two week long marriages of the Kardashian family or Snooki’s inevitable stupidity gets good ratings and good shows get cancelled?? I guess we are getting dumber by the minute.
Nope not going to watch these episodes of Dateline! In fact, I will not be watching any new shows on NBC. I will wait until they have been renewed for a second season before I invest my time on new NBC shows.
I am amused that NBC dropped (but at least gave us closure) Parenthood and replaced it with one show they’ve already cancelled and another whose premise doomed it to a short season. The network bosses want shows that appeal to a younger audience, an audience that buys a six pack of coke instead of a BMW. Besides with DVRs and TiVo who actually watches commercials? To avoid commercials I haven’t watched a show in real time in 10 years.
In what universe did they think that moving The Black List from Monday nights would work? It performed really well on Mondays. NBC thought they could move it to 8:00pm on Thursday nights and not lose some viewers. Thursday night is a huge CBS and Abc Ratings night. At least on Mondays The Voice would have enough viewers and fans that would watch the blacklist . The Blacklist better survive because to me it is the best show on NBC .
I will never understand why “They” – NBC nitwits – moved a terrific show to Thurs nite. Surely they must have realized going up against ABC & CBS was NOT a good move. Should move it back to Mondays; oh, and get rid of The Slap. I don’t think this is a show that will last more than 1/2 seasons; you can only go so far with the premise.
Between On-demand and the DVR, I watched all four episode of ” the Slap”. It is excellent.
Congratulations NBC. This one is very thought provoking and well acted. It will will awards!
Don’t do like the fools at CBS and kill it like they did to Stalker, the best program on TV.
Once again NBC has pissed in my Wheaties. I just got hooked on Alliegience and now it’s gone? NBC I really hate the suits at your network
Well here we go again. Me too I started watching allegiance. I really like the show. I really like watching the slap too was looking forward to seeing more episodes and now another show I like is going away. I will not watch the dateline show ..bad move nbc
What! Once again I have wasted my time on a new show (Allegiance). I have been watching it. I suppose they will also cancel “The Slap” which I like. This is exactly why I do not watch very many NEW shows. I invest my time and BANG, the show is canceled!
well, I’m on a roll. I really like Allegiance, and I only watched the slap once and decided it was not for me. goes to show you what I know! $hite…..
As reported? I must have missed that report. Like others here I too was just getting into that show. You’d think seeing the success tha The Americans is having that they’d at least give it a better chance. It’s because I’m a fan of the other that I was drawn to this one. NBC really knows how to drive viewers away. Just keep canceling shows before they get a chance to catch on. What dopes. I wonder how far they have to fall before someone realizes this