NETWORK FINALS:  There were no changes from this morning’s preliminary numbers.       Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Because USA reports its WWE ratings in hour-long segments, Hour 1 took the night’s cable honors at 1.38, with the latter 2 hours at 1.31/1.26, compared to […]

        NETWORK FINALS: Lots of football-related adjustments in final numbers.  On CBS, the reruns of KEVIN CAN WAIT, LIFE IN PIECES and MOM dropped 0.2, and the reruns of THE BIG BANG THEORY and SCORPION were down 0.1.  ABC’s TO TELL THE TRUTH lost 0.1.  NBC’s MIDNIGHT, TEXAS was also down 0.1. […]

> Sundance announced the second group of its 2012 titles today (Competition entries were announced yesterday; Premieres will be unveiled on Monday), mostly in what are traditionally the most untraditional categories of the Festival:  Park City At Midnight, Next, and New Frontier. Also announced were the Spotlight films, which is where Sundance puts films that […]

>Numbers continue to come in for this past weekend’s scripted cable premieres. The biggest disappointment came at Starz, with Friday’s official arrival of MAGIC CITY, an expensive and heavily-marketed dramatic series. Although the network has released a flood of numbers designed to make the show sound more successful than it was, the key figure is […]

  NCAA Basketball didn’t change much for the other networks. ABC:  The night’s winner, but none of its shows were higher than 1.6.  That number belonged to the season finale of LAST MAN STANDING (up 0.2 from last week) and 20/20 (ditto).  The season finale of MALIBU COUNTRY (up 0.3) and a rerun SHARK TANK tied with 1.4. NBC:  FASHION STAR and GRIMM were both even […]

  USA’s CANNONBALL had a fair preview on NBC. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary live+same day key advertiser demographics (adult 18-34, 18-49 and 25-54 ratings), audience skews (women 18-49, men 18-49 and adults 50+ shares) and total viewership (thousands of people over the age of 2). Ratings […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  AMERICAN NINJA WARRIOR lost 0.1 in final numbers.  In addition, the LAST COMIC STANDING rerun gained 0.1, while the rerun WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY dropped 0.1. MONDAY CABLE:  As detailed in the newest WORLD CUP SKEDBALL post, yesterday was a relatively low-rated day for World Cup matches, and it probably didn’t […]

>Two and a Half Men premiered with a 10.3 Adult 18-49 rating, about equal to a good Sunday Night Football game but not at the level of an AFC Championship game, as CBS head Les Moonves boldly predicted.  Nonetheless, this is a great number to welcome Ashton Kutcher to the show.  Can the show maintain […]