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December 19, 2014
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 25 Thursday Cable Originals (& Network Update): 12.18.2014

 

NETWORK UPDATE:  The only football-related changes in final numbers were 0.1 decreases to ELEMENTARY and the 8PM rerun of BONES. 

Ratings in key demos for the Top 25 original cable telecasts (plus a few other lower-rated but noteworthy programs):

NFL Network’sTHURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL was in its customary place at the top of the Thursday cable chart, but the match-up between losing teams Jacksonville and Tennessee wasn’t very attractive, and the game was 0.86 below last week’s game at 1.56.  The series finale of THE COLBERT REPORT was next, more than doubling last Thursday’s rating to 1.03, and helping to boost lead-in THE DAILY SHOW, up 0.32 from last week to 0.81.  ESPN’s NBA BASKETBALL doubleheader was at 0.88/0.67, within a tenth of last week’s games.  History’s PAWN STARS was at 0.76/0.65, the 1st half-hour up 0.08 from last week, and PAWNOGRAPHY was at 0.55/0.44, up from last week’s 0.44/0.39.  On USA, the series finale of WHITE COLLAR gained a hundredth to 0.45, while the season finale of COVERT AFFAIRS jumped 0.16 to 0.43.  On Adult Swim, NEWSREADERS lost 0.12 to 0.56, and THE ERIC ANDRE SHOW was also down 0.12 to 0.44.  THE CARBONARO EFFECT (Tru) shot up 0.19 to 0.45.  PROJECT RUNWAY ALL STARS (Lifetime) fell 0.06 to 0.40, and PROJECT RUNWAY THREADS dropped 0.08 to 0.16, with 742K total viewers.  MTV aired 3 episodes of SLEDNECKS, at 0.28/0.24/0.23, roughly the same as last week’s 2 episodes. 

Top 25 Cable THU 18 Dec 2014



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Mitch Metcalf
MITCH METCALF has been tracking every US film release of over 500 screens (over 2300 movies and counting) since the storied weekend of May 20, 1994, when Maverick and Beverly Hills Cop 3 inspired countless aficionados to devote their lives to the art of cinema. Prior to that, he studied Politics and Economics at Princeton in order to prepare for his dream of working in television. He has been Head of West Coast Research at ABC, then moved to NBC in 2000 and became Head of Scheduling for 11 years.