The rollout of pre-premiere week arrivals continued. CBS:  The fall premiere of SURVIVOR was a heavy 0.6 below last September’s debut, 2.6 compared to 3.2.  However, on the glass half-full side, it was 0.2 above the show’s 2.4 spring premiere.  The BIG BROTHER season finale was fairly steady at 2.4, down just 0.1 from last year. NBC:  The […]

The 38th weekend of the year is looking like a wobbly $71 million for the top 12 films, down 19% from the $89 million multi-year average for this weekend. Opening at over 3,100 theaters Friday (above the 2,886 average theater count for opening weekends the last two years), Prisoners from Warner Brothers should average $5,900 per theater for the weekend (for […]

  FOX continued to reap some benefit from its early premiere week. FOX:  The premiere of DADS had a 2.1, better than last season’s Raising Hope debut (1.7), but facing atypically weak competition on the other networks.  BROOKLYN NINE-NINE looked more promising with a 2.5.  At 9PM, NEW GIRL was strong at 2.9, a tick better than last season’s premiere, although the […]

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Monday ratings last night, last year and last week.

  Read All Our Fall Pilot Reports here. DADS:  Tuesday 8PM on FOX  – Change the Channel It’s hard to believe that the comedy executives at FOX, who have put such high-quality shows as New Girl, The Mindy Project and Raising Hope on the air in recent years, not to mention the upcoming and very […]

  BROOKLYN NINE-NINE:  Tuesday 8:30PM on FOX – Potential DVR Alert BROOKLYN NINE-NINE is the kind of sitcom that can go very right or extremely wrong:  an ensemble about kooky homicide detectives, anchored by former SNL-er Andy Samberg.  Happily, series creators Michael Schur and Dan Goor, both veterans of Parks & Recreation (Schur is its co-creator as […]

  Read All Our Fall Pilot Reports here. SLEEPY HOLLOW:  Monday 9PM on FOX – If Nothing Else Is On… For what’s supposed to be an original series, SLEEPY HOLLOW feels awfully familiar.  Part of it, of course, is that writers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci are doing a spin on the Washington Irving classic […]