Weekend #13 of 2015 is looking like $123 million for the top 12 films this weekend, slightly below the comparable weekends the past few years. Opening at around 3,150 theaters Friday (above the 2,886 average theater count for opening weekends the last two years), Get Hard from Warner Brothers should average $9,200 per theater for the three-day weekend (for […]

  Another new sitcom went nowhere last night. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment) Sunday, the chart below displays preliminary 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 analysis and […]

  First, our abject apologies.  We were working from inaccurate ratings numbers this morning when this was first posted, and consequently our charts were off.  We’ll try to make sure that doesn’t happen again.  Here were last night’s real results: NBC:  A post-tornado Oklahoma City benefit concert HEALING IN THE HEARTLAND was less than an […]

  The Writers Guild is unusual among awards-giving groups in that it strictly enforces the rule that only screenplays written for films produced under Guild agreements are eligible.  That tends to exclude some of the major indie movies of the year and many foreign imports, which are produced non-Guild for budgetary and other reasons.  The […]

  What’s worse than shamelessly airing a piece of calculated trash designed to exploit both past and present celebrities, all for the sake of ratings?  Not getting those ratings.  Last night’s LIZ & DICK on Lifetime, despite all the publicity in the world, only managed a 1.0 rating in 18-49s, which is lower than a […]

>The New York Times recently ran a story about slumping ratings for the broadcast networks, drawing an immediate response by Bill Gorman of tvbythenumbers.com:  “You can always count on Bill Carter of the New York Times to be surprised by numbers that aren’t a surprise to anyone who’s been paying attention to them.  Yesterday’s article […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  After an AMERICA’S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS rerun at 0.37, the 6th and final game of the STANLEY CUP FINALS was at 1.69. CBS:  Reruns at 0.33/0.28/0.19/0.19. NBC:  After a NASCAR race at 0.45, a rerun AMERICA’S GOT TALENT was at 0.28. FOX:  The season finale of DUNCANVILLE, down a tick to […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  The post-football adjustments for CBS were even more brutal than expected. KEVIN CAN WAIT lost 0.1 to 1.3, while both MAN WITH A PLAN and 2 BROKE GIRLS dropped 0.2 to twin 1.3s, and both THE ODD COUPLE (0.9) and SCORPION (1.1) plunged 0.3, resulting in numbers that the […]