
The latest show to get a full-season pickup: Back to You [1], the Kelsey Grammer/Patricia Heaton comedy on Fox. The show was one of the first to be picked up by any network last spring, so I suppose it only makes sense that Fox would be standing by it now.
The network has ordered 11 more episodes of the show [2], bringing the total number of episodes to 24 for the season. Its ratings haven't been great — it hovers somewhere between 6.5 and 7 million viewers each week — but it's been consistent. And, as was recently pointed out with the pickup of Gossip Girl [3], networks are changing their standards [4] for what's considered a hit show in the first place.
In other news:
- ABC has ordered six more scripts of Samantha Who? [5] The show is the No. 1 new comedy of the season and did almost as well in the ratings this week as it did in its premiere.
- The CW wants three more Reaper scripts [6], even though this week's ratings were (gulp) a series low.
I'm a little surprised we haven't heard about any of the NBC shows yet. All of the other networks have picked up at least one key series (Back to You for Fox, Gossip Girl for the CW, Pushing Daisies and Private Practice for ABC, The Big Bang Theory for CBS). None of NBC's series has been a huge hit, but I figured at least one of them would have gotten the network's support by now.