>No new wide releases this weekend, the final weekend of the year as we welcome the arrival of 2012.  We are estimating a box office volume of $145 million for Friday-Sunday for the top 12 films, up 27% from $114 million last weekend (which was limited by Christmas Eve on Saturday) and down only 2% […]

  A pair of veterans returned from their holidays. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary live+same day 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 […]

  A small but good sign for NBC. NBC:  THE BLACKLIST was only up 0.1 last night to 3.0–and even that might not hold in final numbers, since it started at 10:01PM–but the highly-promoted episode, which featured a Big Reveal (albeit, unless more trickery is involved, the same Reveal that had been strongly implied since […]

  BROADCAST FINALS: ABC:  Reruns at 0.34/0.38. CBS:  SECRET CELEBRITY RENOVATION dropped 0.09 to 0.15, followed by reruns at 0.15/0.15. NBC:  Reruns at 0.20/0.22 FOX:  WWE SMACKDOWN ticked up to 0.48. CW:  KILLER CAMP was steady at 0.04, followed by reruns at 0.03/0.03. TELEMUNDO:  TOP CHEF VIP rose 0.05 to 0.33, AMOR VALIENTE gained 0.02 […]

>ABC won going away last night by being the only network in town with a schedule of original episodes.  CBS stayed in the game because their shows repeat at least decently, while FOX and NBC were basically off the air.  The biggest reversal of fortune last night was NBC, which went from a first-place tie […]

  THE MASKED SINGER showed no sign of flagging. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary live+same day 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 […]

  OPENINGS:  We noted here yesterday that if THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE (Lionsgate) could just hold on as well on its first Saturday as The Hunger Games had, a $160M weekend was within its grasp.  That’s exactly what happened, with the same 25% Saturday drop for Catching Fire that Hunger Games had and a $161.1M weekend […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  The season finale of THE BACHELORETTE was at 0.90, up 0.16 from the December 2021 finale. CBS:  It was season premiere night, with FBI down 0.08 from last season’s premiere to 0.64, FBI: INTERNATIONAL down 0.09 to 0.50, and FBI: MOST WANTED down 0.15 to 0.51. NBC:  THE VOICE was at […]