X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST (20th) began with a bang last night, earning $8.1M from Thursday night shows. Although that’s less than Captain America: The Winter Soldier ($10.2M), Godzilla ($9.3M), and The Amazing Spider-Man 2 ($8.7M), Fox decided to forego some of its Thursday night potential (presumably to provide extra oomph on Friday) by […]
NETWORK UPDATE: Only HELL’S KITCHEN and the night’s rerun of MODERN FAMILY found an extra 0.1 in the couch cushions. THURSDAY CABLE: With no NBA Playoff games scheduled, it was a quiet night. The NHL PLAYOFFS on NBC Sports Network were at 0.6. PAWN STARS (History) was at 0.9/0.9, up 0.1 in the 2d […]
Here are our night-by-night ratings predictions for the Fall network television season: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday Now that we’ve gone through each night’s Fall ratings, let’s pull back and take a look at the big picture for each of the broadcast networks. ABC: Standing still isn’t necessarily a bad thing in the […]
GANG-RELATED: Thursday 9PM on FOX – Change the Channel I think my favorite cliche in the pilot for FOX’s burn-off drama GANG-RELATED–out of, believe me, plenty of choices–comes at the end of an argument between a fiery Assistant District Attorney (Shantal VanSanten) and the head of the show’s inter-agency Gang Task Force (Terry O’Quinn). […]
The rest of the week: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. The Saturday primetime network schedule, such as it is, isn’t worth much attention, being a patchwork of reruns and sports (although we will include estimates for that night in our full-week network projections). That brings us to Sunday, once the showcase night for […]
NETWORK UPDATE: The season finale of SURVIVOR edged up 0.1 in final numbers, moving it into a tie with AMERICAN IDOL. (The SURVIVOR post-finale special lost 0.1.) The season finales of THE MIDDLE and MODERN FAMILY both gained 0.1. WEDNESDAY CABLE: TNT’s coverage of the NBA PLAYOFFS was on top at 2.2, with the NHL […]
Wednesday preliminary broadcast ratings:
Weekend #21 of 2014 is looking like a very good $205 million for the top 12 films over the traditional Friday-Sunday portion of the Memorial Day weekend, 21% above the norm for this weekend (although -18% from the same weekend last year, which was fueled by sequels that opened big but couldn’t sustain). Reminder: on […]