Today NBC announced renewals of the dramas that everyone knew would be renewed:  REVOLUTION, GRIMM, CHICAGO FIRE, PARENTHOOD (thank god!) and LAW & ORDER: SVU.  It’s worth noting that while all the renewals are completely justifiable by NBC standards, they give the network five hours of primetime next season that will be unlikely to […]

> According to Deadline, nothing much changed for the new boxoffice arrivals on Saturday.  THE HELP is still far in front for the weekend, with a beautiful $19-20M second weekend, and it’s followed by RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES, with its own impressive $16-17M third round. (Apes now looks like it will pull […]

NOTE: This was another night where half a dozen NFL exhibition football games inflated the preliminary ratings, making week-to-week comparisons pointless.  We’ll hold our analysis for our Network Update post on Monday afternoon. Tonight’s major event is the season finale of POWER on Starz. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below […]

  A NASCAR overrun may have been the highest-rated show of the night. ABC:  ONCE UPON A TIME rose 0.2 from last week to 2.2, but it’s still hovering half a point below its season average.  REVENGE edged up 0.1 to 1.8 (down 0.4 from season average), and RED WIDOW bid adieu by climbing 0.2 […]

        NOTE:  Over time, we’ll be publishing posts like this for the gap period in which ShowbuzzDaily wasn’t operational.  Those posts will not have analysis.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   Top 50 Original Cable Telecasts with Demographic Detail Top 150 Original Cable Telecasts To search for a […]

  OPENINGS:  With a $10M production budget (and tens of millions in marketing on top), the $10.6M weekend for SINISTER 2 (Blumhouse/Gramercy/Focus/Universal) will test Blumhouse’s ability to make money out of just about anything.  The opening is far below the $18M start for 2012’s Sinister, and its US total won’t be near the $48.1M gross […]

  We’ll have head-to-head nightly ratings predictions next week, but for now, here are the fall schedules for each of the 5 broadcast networks:   CBS       ABC     FOX   Fall NBC. Midseason 2013-14  

Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday May 17 through Sunday May 23, 2021.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 200K Persons 2+ live+same day).  Programs are grouped by sport and ranked within each sport by P2+ audience size. Here is the same week two years […]