Reruns decked the halls on Christmas night. ABC: THE MIDDLE and MODERN FAMILY led the way with1.3s, giving ABC the win. NBC: Nothing in the network’s mix of rerun holiday specials and a repeat of Monday’s HOLLYWOOD GAME NIGHT scored above 0.7. CBS: Ditto for a pair of procedurals and a rerun of the […]
Nothing on the networks got past a 1.5 rating. 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 […]
OPENINGS: The big box office news of this weekend happened overseas, where THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES (New Line/MGM/Warners) has already opened in 37 territories to a massive $117.6M in advance of its US launch next week. The Hobbit movies have done overwhelmingly well overseas, with the previous installments earning respectively […]
UPDATE: All the adjustments were upward, but they were also only by 0.1, giving a little extra to BELIEVE, RESURRECTION, COSMOS, ONCE UPON A TIME, AMERICAN DAD and AMERICA’S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS. SUNDAY CABLE: A particularly wrenching hour of THE WALKING DEAD (AMC) continued to be the biggest thing on all of television, swamping […]
Analysis to follow. Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart Top 50 Original Cable Telecasts with Demographic Detail Top 150 Original Cable Telecasts To search for a show: type Ctrl-F and type your show title in the search box. Top 150 Original Cable Telecasts: Friday July 16, 2021 P18-49 P2+ Rank […]
Basketball. 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 follow the chart. ABC: Game 1 […]
Based on Friday’s and Saturday’s grosses, Weekend #23 of 2013 looks like an okay $152 million for the top 12 films (very similar to yesterday’s estimate), down 13% from last year but 4% above the average for this weekend the past few years. The Purge is doing much better than forecast and is propping the […]
BACKSTROM: Midseason TBD on FOX THE FACTS: Rainn Wilson plays your basic difficult-but-brilliant homicide detective in a procedural based on a series of Swedish mystery novels, adapted for television by Hart Hanson, the creator of Bones. Backstrom is grumpy and dismissive of his colleagues, and unhealthy in his eating, drinking and general living habits, […]