Based on Friday’s grosses, Weekend #52 is on pace for a solid $166 million thanks to three movies at or near $30 million for the Friday-Sunday period. However, the two big openers are not living up to the promise of their initial Christmas Day grosses. Les Miserables opened with $18.1 million Tuesday (a strong #1 […]
> DISCLAIMER: These initial impressions are based on the clips (usually 3-5 minutes) released by the networks to use in their Upfront presentations and for promos. They’re chosen to sell the show, not to accurately represent it. So take the reactions below with a large satchel of salt–we may well feel differently about these shows […]
Here are the weekend sports ratings for Saturday and Sunday December 9-10, 2017. Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 300K P2+). Programs are grouped by sport and ranked within each sport by P2+ audience size. For comparison, here is the same chart for the same weekend last year, December 10-11, […]
NBC’s prime time Wild Card game Saturday night (Minnesota at Green Bay) easily destroyed the competition — a 9.2 rating with Adults 18-49 from 8-11 pm against a 1.9 rating combined for CBS (0.8), FOX (0.7) and ABC (0.4). The 9.2 fast national rating should rise to around a 10.6 rating in the official nationals. But […]
> THIS PAGE HAS BEEN UPDATED DUE TO PENDING CAST CHANGES IN LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT. Click here to see the Updated Wednesday Ratings Projections. A few notes: these projections are for original episodes (no repeats) aired in the 4th quarter of 2011. Series premieres will likely be .3-.4 higher, thanks to network […]
For the 9 days December 16-24, the top 10 films each day in North America have totaled $430 million, nearly identical to last year’s pace and above all other years except 2015, when Star Wars: The Force Awakens dominated the holiday season. With Rogue One last year and The Last Jedi this year, the Star Wars franchise has definitely taken the holiday movie season […]
Other Nielsenwar Network Report Cards: NBC One massive hit can make up for an awful lot of failure. Have you met EMPIRE? Full Season To Date (thru May 3) 18-49 Rating Average: 1.53 (#4), down 26.2% from last season (Note: FOX aired the Super Bowl in 2014-15; with that excluded, the year-to-year drop was […]
A blah night for network TV. FOX: AMERICAN IDOL may not be the behemoth it used to be, but it’s not going anywhere either, down just a tick to a still-powerful 5.4. That’s higher than the combined ratings for ABC, CBS and FOX on the night. ABC: It’s not much of a surprise that THE […]