NETWORK FINALS:  With the exception of THE MIDDLE, all of ABC’s rerun sitcoms lost 0.1 in final numbers, as did CBS’s NCIS: NEW ORLEANS rerun, FOX’s rerun of THE MICK, and CW’s 9PM rerun of WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY.  (A note on the July 4th ratings:  all the non-FOX reruns […]

No one watches TV on Labor Day. NBC:  The post-Olympics scheduling experiment reached its nadir, as STARS EARN STRIPES hit a new low 0.9 in its finale, and GRIMM‘s 1.4 was down 0.2 from last week and just even with its numbers on low-rated Friday last season.  (The network also aired some notably confusing promos […]

The 2014 holiday box office continues to out-pace the average for the last several years but is now slightly behind the same period in 2013. The top 10 films on Saturday December 27, 2014 totaled $63.4 million, slightly above the average $60.4 million for the days since 2002 when December 27 landed on a Friday-Sunday. […]

NBC had a terrific first night of The Voice and Revolution combo.  In its second Monday this season, The Voice perked up to a 4.6 rating with Adults 18-49 from 8-10 pm, up from a 4.2 last Monday.  There seemed to be a lot of radio advertising over the weekend and all day yesterday driving tune in to this night, and […]

  OPENING:  THE WOMAN IN BLACK 2:  ANGEL OF DEATH (Relativity) fell to 4th place for the weekend, as expected, after a strong opening day.  Still, a $15.1M haul for the cheap thriller isn’t at all bad, and it wouldn’t be surprising to see a Woman in Black 3 come along in a year or […]

So much for the monkey. NBC:  ANIMAL PRACTICE lurched into the regular season with an awful 1.4 start, the lowest rated show in primetime (other than on CW) last night.  GUYS WITH KIDS did marginally better at 1.6, but that was still deeply in 4th place for its timeslot.  (Incidentally, in other NBC bad sitcom […]

Nielsen announced planned delays for daily national ratings (cable and broadcast programs) the rest of this week.  This is how the week’s ratings should roll out.  We will update these times if anything changes. Saturday Jan 10 nationals rescheduled to Tuesday 1 pm 3 pm PT (normally Tuesday morning) Sunday Jan 11 nationals rescheduled to Tuesday 1 pm […]

The second Friday of the new season was down 16% in the fast nationals from last year (4.7 rating with Adults 18-49 TOTAL for the four broadcast network versus 5.6 the same night in 2011). It’s pretty much a disaster for CBS and FOX on this night.  CBS has plunged 31% on the night from […]