OPENINGS:  PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES (Disney) easily took the weekend worldwide, but it’s another diminishing franchise.  In the US, it had a $62.2M 3-day opening, and although Memorial Day will push that to around $76M, on a 3-day-to-3-day basis, it’s down 30% from 2011’s On Stranger Tides (it’s likely […]

  BROADCAST FINALS [CHART UPDATED WITH NFL THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL on AMAZON] ABC:  After an episode of CELEBRITY FAMILY FEUD at 0.45, the special NORMAN LEAR: 100 YEARS was at 0.29. CBS:  Sandwiched between reruns at 0.36/0.35 & 0.19/0.14, BIG BROTHER dropped 0.08 to 0.62. NBC:  The LAW & ORDER franchise returned, with ORGANIZED CRIME […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  THE BACHELOR and SUPERIOR DONUTS gained 0.1 in final numbers.  Less-rounded ratings for the newcomers: SUPERIOR DONUTS 1.35, 24: LEGACY 1.48, APB 1.47.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  VH1 took the lead on Monday cable with 1.22 for LOVE & […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  There were no changes from the preliminary Wednesday ratings.           Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  TBS’s MLB PLAYOFFS game was on top of Wednesday cable at 1.80.  FX’s AMERICAN HORROR STORY: APOCALYPSE grew by 0.08 to 1.00.  On Comedy Central, SOUTH […]

> Deadline has updated early Friday numbers, and it’s looking like another too-close-to-call weekend:  all the movies in the Top 5–MONEYBALL, THE LION KING, DOLPHIN TALE, COURAGEOUS and 50/50–have Friday grosses between $3.2-3.8M.  Courageous is probably the most front-loaded, due to its focused church-based audience (although it’s per-theatre number will be very impressive), and while […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  JEOPARDY COLLEGE CHAMPIONSHIP was at 0.49, down 0.15 from last Tuesday.  ABBOTT ELEMENTARY fell 0.16 to 0.41, and BLACK-ISH was down 0.11 to 0.30.  The season finale of QUEENS lost 0.03 to 0.20. CBS:  Reruns at 0.38/0.31/0.25. NBC:  The WINTER OLYMPICS was at 1.54, down 61% from the parallel night in […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  There were no changes from the preliminary Saturday ratings.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  A&E’s LIVE PD led Saturday cable, down 0.08 to 0.48.  Food Network’s primetime DINERS, DRIVE-INS & DIVES was at 0.34, and in the morning, KITCHEN AT […]

> The final arrival of the season is a flop. CW:  THE LA COMPLEX has some promise, but as a low-budget, no-star version of the network’s usual fodder, it didn’t give the Marketing department much to work with.  Viewers were not enticed, and the result was a terrible 0.3 debut.  (It’s not clear whether LA […]