BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  PRESS YOUR LUCK gained 0.07 to 0.53, GENERATION GAP jumped 0.11 to 0.46, and THE CON was up 0.03 to 0.26. CBS:  Reruns at 0.33/0.27 were followed by BIG BROTHER down 0.05 to 0.73, with another rerun afterward at 0.19. NBC:  The NFL HALL OF FAME game kicked off preseason football […]

  OPENINGS:  Despite a launch scheduled around Mother’s Day, BOOK CLUB: THE NEXT CHAPTER (Focus/Universal) had a soft start with $6.5M.  That’s less than half the $13.6M for the first Book Club in 2018, and also considerably below the $12.7M for this year’s 80 For Brady.  (The grasp for a closer comp with The Second […]

Broadcast news and late night series ratings available below for this week and the same week last year. You can also search for other available weeks with the link at the bottom of this post. Week 14: March 27-April 2, 2023 Broadcast News: Current Week Broadcast News: Same Week Last Year   Broadcast Late Night: […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  The reruns of DATELINE, SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE and AMERICAN IDOL lost 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  ESPN’s coverage of the NFL DRAFT remained strong at 0.67 (plus 0.19 for the NFL Network telecast), and the network’s […]

  FOX:  UTOPIA fell again, down 0.2 from its Tuesday rating to 0.7, and only managing to tie a rerun on NBC for 2d place in its hour.  Once regular season competition arrives in 10 days, it seems unlikely that FOX will be able to devote 2 primetime hours to such a low-rated series every […]

NOTE: Both NBC and FOX sports programming last night were broadcast live in the Pacific Time Zone. That western viewing is not reflected in the fast nationals below and will be added to the official nationals for Saturday next week.  DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary live+same day […]

Weekend #35 of 2015 is looking like $68 million for the top 12 films this weekend, significantly below the norm for this weekend (see comparisons below). We Are You Friends from Warner Brothers should open with a $9.0 million three-day weekend. Early reviews at RottenTomatoes are soft: 37% positive overall so far. We Are Your Friends is on track for […]

  Truth be told, “weekend” box office doesn’t mean much in a week where Friday/Saturday/Sunday are no stronger than the weekdays that surround them, and virtually all the openings took place on Wednesday.  (Also, morning estimates aren’t very different from the preliminary numbers we posted last night.)  Nevertheless, a few thoughts. OPENINGS:  THE WOLF OF […]