>Put ABC’s Suburgatory in the conditional win column, while Revenge is on a watch list to see where it settles.  FOX’s The X Factor suffered a decline in week two, but the Simon Cowell performance show still powered FOX to a victory on the second Wednesday of the season.  CBS was down a bit at […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  The SUPERSTORE rerun gained 0.1 and the THIS IS US rerun lost the same in final numbers.  In addition, as expected after adjustment for a preemption in NY, both the reruns of ARROW and LEGENDS OF TOMORROW dropped 0.1.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  EXTREME WEIGHT LOSS and CELEBRITY WIFE SWAP each gained 0.1 in final numbers. TUESDAY CABLE:  THE DEADLIEST CATCH (Discovery), PRETTY LITTLE LIARS (ABCFamily) and RIZZOLI & ISLES (TNT) were bunched together at 1.0, which was up 0.1 for RIZZOLI.  The dramas’ companion shows didn’t fare as well, with both PERCEPTION and CHASING LIFE […]

  OPENINGS:  THE POST (DreamWorks/Reliance/Participant/20th) expanded to wide release with $18.6M over 3 days (which should become $22M with Monday).  That’s a bit better than the $15.4M 3-day start for Steven Spielberg’s Bridge of Spies, which didn’t have the benefit of a holiday weekend opening.  Bridge got to $72.3M in the US, and The Post […]

  What are we to make of the first meaningful box office numbers to come our way since March?  The area is a landscape of spin in the best of times, and these of course are not those.  Other than drive-ins, heatres remain closed in several major US markets (including both NY and LA), and […]

  TNT carried the NBA PLAYOFFS Clippers/Spurs Game 7, and easily topped Saturday cable at 1.88.  Lifetime was strong with its CLEVELAND ABDUCTION movie at 0.93, followed by a BEYOND THE HEADLINES documentary special at 0.84.  The latter stages of the NFL DRAFT on ESPN scored 0.54.  Adult Swim’s late night block was solid although […]

  The Oscars are not the Golden Globes.  That appears to be the underlying message of today’s action by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, revoking the Best Original Song nomination of “Alone Yet Not Alone” from the film of the same name.  (According to The Hollywood Reporter, this is just the 2d […]

    NETWORK UPDATE:  THE GOLDEN GLOBES adjusted to 5.5 in final numbers (0.3 below the finals for last year’s edition), and the ARRIVALS SHOW fell to 1.4.  After adjustment for the NFL WILD CARD game that ran into FOX primetime, THE SIMPSONS adjusted to a still-tremendous 3.6, COOPER BARRETT’S GUIDE TO SURVIVING LIFE got […]