A Happy 4th of July to all!  Viewers started their holiday early last night, leading to reduced ratings for everyone. NBC:  AMERICA’S GOT TALENT was the highest rated show of the night with a 2.3, but that was down 0.9 from last week’s live show, which combined with a 1.3 for LOVE IN THE […]

Here are the full week sports ratings (such as they are) for Monday April 6 through Sunday April 12, 2020.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 300K P2+ live+same day).  Programs are grouped by sport and ranked within each sport by P2+ audience size. For comparison, here is the similar […]

Based on Friday’s grosses, weekend #44 of 2014 looks like $82 million for the top 12 films Friday-Sunday, down 33% the norm for this weekend ($123 million), which admittedly does not usually have Halloween ruining it by falling on Friday. Opening at 2,766 theaters, Nightcrawler from Open Road Films grossed $3.2 million Friday and $4.7 million […]

The 28th weekend of 2012 is looking like a very weak $149 million for the Top 12 films Friday-Sunday, down 29% from this weekend last year and down 42% from the multi-year average for this weekend.            Ice Age: Continental Drift from 20th Century Fox (the fourth Ice Age film) opened with […]

  After a moratorium on official boxoffice pronouncements due to the tragic events in Colorado, Warners has officially released the weekend boxoffice figure for THE DARK KNIGHT RISES:  $160.9M.  This is where the unofficial weekend estimates had the picture, although it’s 10-20% below the pre-release expectations for the film.  That was also largely the case […]

  NBC:  CONSTANTINE, while still last in the 10PM timeslot, showed some life by rising 0.3 from last week to 1.1, outpacing its lead-in GRIMM, which rose 0.1 to 1.3.  The night started with DATELINE, steady at 1.5. ABC:  LAST MAN STANDING and CRISTELA both fell from last week, MAN by 0.2 to 1.3 and […]

Last night, NBC averaged a preliminary 11.4 rating with Adults 18-49 in prime time.  This edges the Beijing rating for the same night, which itself towered over the other recent summer Games.  Last night the NBC rating peaked at a 13.5 in the 9:30 half hour and held steady at a 13.3 in the 10 […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  There was a 0.2 boost for the AMERICA’S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS rerun in final numbers, and an 0.1 increase for the rerun of YES, VIRGINIA. Ratings in key demos for the Top 25 original cable telecasts (plus a few other lower-rated but noteworthy programs): Discovery’s GOLD RUSH was by far the highest […]