OnOn NETWORK UPDATE:  The Notre Dame COLLEGE FOOTBALL game on NBC adjusted up by 0.1 in final numbers to 1.2. CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  COLLEGE FOOTBALL took over Saturday cable, giving ESPN 8 of the day’s Top 10 shows with games or related programming.  The noon Stanford/Northwestern game took the day’s prize at 1.19.  The top-rated non-sports programming […]

  The occasional piece of youth-oriented counterprogramming aside, the studios don’t bring out their big guns for Super Bowl Weekend, since Sunday is destined to be deflated.  Even by those standards, though, this is looking like a dim few days. The decision to hold the Coen Brothers’ star-studded HAIL, CAESAR! (Universal) out of 2015 awards […]

  NOTE:  Due to last Tuesday’s Supreme Court announcement and other preemptions, many comparisons are to prior weeks. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), 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 […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  Could things get worse for STATE OF AFFAIRS?  Yes they could:  final numbers pushed the show down 0.1 to an even deeper series low of 0.7.  Also down 0.1 were THE BACHELOR, now at 1.7, and CASTLE, now at 1.3.  Ratings in key demos for the Top 25 original cable telecasts (plus a […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  MACGYVER and both episodes of WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY lost 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE NOTE:  Because so many people have asked, note that we have no ratings at all for the Pursuit service, including for […]

      NETWORK FINALS:  The new CELEBRITY FAMILY FEUD and THE $100,000 PYRAMID both gained 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  The big winner of Sunday cable was unquestionably Starz, which smashed past HBO and Showtime with a series-high 1.10 rating for […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  NBC’s NFL PLAYOFFS game adjusted to 7.0 in final numbers.  Elsewhere, the reruns of THE GOOD DOCTOR and THE FOUR each dropped 0.1.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  ESPN’s afternoon NFL PLAYOFFS game (which it shared with ABC) took the […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  ELEMENTARY lost 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  On AMC, the season premiere of BETTER CALL SAUL was at 0.56, down 0.14 (a reasonable 20%) from 2017, but LODGE 49 had an unpromising start at 0.17. VH1’s […]