Last night’s TNT premiere of Dallas was watched by more viewers than any show on network television. FOX:  One broadcast network did manage to win the night in 18-49s, thanks to So You Think You Can Dance and its 2.4,  just slightly down from last week. ABC:  DUETS is relocated to Wednesdays for 2 weeks […]

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday October 11 and Sunday October 12, 2014. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. NFL: Week 6 Sunday 10.6 rating CBS 1 or 4 pm Single (mostly DEN-NYJ, SD-OAK, PIT-CLE) […]

  It’s rare for a busted network pilot to find a home somewhere else, but DEVIOUS MAIDS, which had been created by Desperate Housewives‘ Marc Cherry initially for ABC (and by its in-house studio), has accomplished the feat.  Lifetime has adopted the serialized comic soap with a 13-episode order to begin airing in 2013, presumably […]

  Football helped all FOX’s shows… except one. 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 people over the age of 2). Ratings analysis and comparisons […]

Once again, live programming proved to be the only way to attract an audience on a tough night like Friday.  NBC’s continuing coverage of U.S. Olmpic Trials worked well with the TV audience, particularly Gymnastics from 9-11 pm. NBC averaged a first-place 2.0 preliminary Adult 18-49 rating from 8-11 pm.  Swimming from 8-9 pm averaged a […]

With the Fourth of July falling on a Wednesday, most of the past week performed like weekend days, driving the seven-day domestic box office haul to one of the highest in recent memory. The Past Week: Total Box Office Volume All films in wide release playing between July 2 and July 8 grossed an incredible […]

Here are the weekend sports ratings for Saturday and Sunday May 13-14, 2017.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 300K P2+).  Programs are grouped by sport and ranked within each sport by P2+ audience size. For comparison, here is the same chart for the same weekend last year, May 14-15, […]

Weekend #29 of 2012 looks like what last weekend should have been: $272 million for the top 12 films, up 50% from last year’s comparable weekend and up 67% from the four-year average for the weekend. Opening at 4,404 theaters, The Dark Knight Rises from Warner Brothers should average $43,600 per theater (for a $192 million […]