NETWORK FINALS:  FOX’s NFL PLAYOFFS game adjusted to 10.3.  Elsewhere, the rerun of THE TITAN GAMES dropped 0.2 in final numbers, and the rerun NCIS: LA lost 0.1.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart         CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  ESPN’s COLLEGE BASKETBALL coverage was at 0.69/0.45.  […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  The US GYMNASTICS CHAMPIONSHIPS and the rerun of PENN & TELLER: FOOL US each lost 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  AMC’s FEAR THE WALKING DEAD returned from a 3-week break, and although it led Sunday scripted […]

  ABCFamily had a big night on Tuesday with the Season 4 premiere of PRETTY LITTLE LIARS, which had a 1.3 rating in 18-49s and 2.9M viewers, with even bigger numbers in the network’s target demos (4.1 in Females 12-34, 6.6 in Female Teens, 3.2 in Women 18-34 and 2.1 in Women 18-49).  The target […]

Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday August 24 through Sunday August 30, 2020.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size now 200K P2+ live+same day).  Programs are grouped by sport and ranked within each sport by P2+ audience size. For comparison, here is the similar chart […]

  For the studios, a Good Friday that generally lived up to its name. OPENINGS:  GI JOE: RETALIATION (Paramount/MGM) had a very solid second day, rising 48% for a $15.5M Friday.  That’s still only 2/3 of the $22.2M that its predecessor GIJoe: The Rise of Cobra did on its opening day (despite 3D ticket premiums […]

  In midnight shows last night, MAN OF STEEL (Warners) grossed $9M, a fine but hardly exceptional result for a mega-movie opening.  (Nowhere near the $18.7M for The Avengers, let alone the $30.7M for The Dark Knight Rises or the $22-43M earned by various Harry Potters and Twilights.)  However… earlier on Thursday, Man took in […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  AMERICAN IDOL and THE VOICE gained 0.1 in final numbers, while GOOD GIRLS lost the same.           Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Sports was firmly at the top of Monday cable, led by TNT’s NBA PLAYOFFS games at 1.54/1.38.  USA’s WWE […]

  STALKER:  Wednesday 10PM on CBS THE FACTS:  From the grisly mind of The Following‘s Kevin Williamson, a procedural about an LAPD squad that specializes in tracking down dangerous stalkers.  Maggie Q runs the unit, and Dylan McDermott is the cocky new arrival from New York who immediately gets on her wrong side; both of […]