The return of BATTLE OF THE NETWORK STARS wasn’t an event. 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). […]

>Last night FOX concluded The X Factor last night and hit a 3.8 Adult 18-49 rating for the night, which might go up to a 3.9 in the official nationals later today.  CBS finished in second place with an all-repeat lineup, while NBC and ABC were around the 1 rating range.  ABC had the most […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  THE BIG BANG THEORY and THE VOICE gained 0.1 in final numbers, while THE GOOD DOCTOR lost the same.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  ESPN’s MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL jumped a full point from last week’s game to 3.89.  USA’s WWE […]

  Neither THE HEAT (20th) nor WHITE HOUSE DOWN (Sony) is expected to turn many heads at the box office this weekend (Mitch Metcalf’s predictions are here), and that was reflected in their early Thursday night and midnight Friday results.  White House, which started its screenings at 7PM, earned $1.35M, while The Heat, which waited until […]

  Considering all that was happening on cable last night, it’s not much of a surprise that hardly anyone showed up at the networks. ABC:  The network started the night with a ONCE UPON A TIME rerun, and its dismal 0.6 set the stage for ugly numbers for REVENGE (1.5, barely above the series low) and […]

Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday December 12 through Sunday December 18, 2022. Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 200K Persons 2+ live+same day). Programs are grouped by sport and ranked within each sport by P2+ audience size. Here is the same week last year: […]

WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD.  Updated look at 2016 by studio.   YEAR TO DATE BOX OFFICE. Looking at North American box office, 2016 to date is now +7% above last year and now +10% above the average for this point the past four years ($2.279 billion).  Over the same period, Hollywood films have grossed $6.4 billion […]

  After a summer of fizzled franchise movies, audiences were–pardon the expression–hungry for something new, and the unquestionably unique, hard-R existential talking food cartoon SAUSAGE PARTY (Annapurna/Columbia/Sony) is satisfying that appetite.  According to preliminary numbers at Deadline, Sausage is going to win Friday with $13.3M ($3.3M from Thursday night shows), although it’s likely to be […]