Updated broadcast and cable ranking for the past week and the week before.  Live programming occupied the top eight spots in the week’s program ranking:  basketball and hockey playoffs, the final two episodes of The Voice, Nik Wallenda walking a tight rope near the Grand Canyon, and an America’s Got Talent episode.  True Blood was the top scripted program (in […]

  Cable ratings will be fragmentary until tomorrow, but here are some numbers worth noting: MAD MEN‘s Season 6 finale was, despite some viewers’ misgivings about this season, the show’s highest-rated finale ever, with 2.7M total viewers.  (AMC didn’t release 18-49 numbers, but Mad Men has always skewed old.)  That was 200,000 more viewers than […]

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday June 22 and Sunday June 23, 2013. (The 56 markets out of 210 total cover about 70% of the US television population.) The NHL playoffs continue to do very well for NBC. NHL — Stanley Cup Final NBC Sat 8:00 pm Boston-Chicago […]

Projected weekly network ratings in prime time (based on four days of official nationals and three days of fast nationals).  ABC wins another week (the third in a row), thanks to two NBA Finals games (a very good Game 6 on Tuesday and a rare Game 7 on Thursday, which topped a 10 demo rating). […]

It’s not that no one was watching television last night:  Discovery’s SKYWIRE LIVE WITH NIK WALLENDA delivered 13M viewers during his actual Grand Canyon walk.  What viewers weren’t watching was broadcast TV, as the networks combined for a 3.6 adult 18-49 rating, 6% below last year’s results for the parallel night NBC:  The international co-production CROSSING […]

Updated international box office chart:

STUDIO SCORECARD. Disney solidified its grip on first place in worldwide box office (thanks to Monsters University), while Paramount jumped ahead of 20th Century Fox courtesy of World War Z. TOTAL NORTH AMERICAN BOX OFFICE. Looking at wide-release films in North America (those that play on at least 400 screens at some point), 2013 now […]

  OPENINGS:  Allowing for the usual studio practice of predicting lower-than-typical Sunday drops to boost the numbers a bit, MONSTERS UNIVERSITY (Disney/Pixar) opened in line with expectations at what may be slightly less than the $82M number announced today.  That puts it only behind 3 other big-ticket animated sequels (the last Toy Story and 2 […]