> Aside from NFL Sunday Night Football, there is nothing close to a dominant show on the night.  A lot of mid-2 and low-3 rated shows.  Even with the football competition, the night is filled with opportunity to build off the moderate successes.  ABC saw declines week to week in their 9 and 10 pm […]

  A largely steady night. 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). Ratings analysis and comparisons follow the chart. […]

Based on Friday’s and Saturday’s grosses, Weekend #25 of 2013 still looks like an excellent $223 million for the top 12 films, up 32-42% from the same weekend in recent years. The two wide openers clicked with audiences, with Monsters University doing as well as we forecast but World War Z opening much stronger than […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  THE BACHELORETTE dropped 0.08 to 0.71, and QUEENS was down 0.05 from last week’s premiere to 0.31. CBS:  Reruns at 0.44/0.37/0.33. NBC:  THE VOICE rose 0.11 to 0.77, LA BREA gained 0.04 to 0.59, and NEW AMSTERDAM was up 0.03 to 0.37. FOX:  Game 1 of the WORLD SERIES was at […]

>From tvbythenumbers.com, decisive Game 5 last night (Detroit Tigers edging the New York Yankees 3-2 in the Bronx) made TBS the number three network in all of primetime television with a 7.3 Household rating in the metered markets, which represent over half the country equipped for next-day local ratings (as opposed to the fast nationals which provides a […]

  The place to be last night was again Under the Dome. CBS:  UNDER THE DOME was by far the night’s biggest show, although it fell half a point from last week’s giant premiere to 2.8.  The Stephen King series was fairly stable throughout the hour (2.9 rating in the 10:00 half hour and 2.8 […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  STATION 19 pulled ahead of its leadout, up 0.04 to 0.68, while GREY’S ANATOMY dropped 0.09 to 0.61.  BIG SKY was down 0.04 to 0.30. CBS:  YOUNG SHELDON gained 0.04 to 0.73, UNITED STATES OF AL rose 0.06 to 0.79, GHOSTS was steady at 0.55, and B POSITIVE was up 0.07 […]

> A lot can happen between the creation of a TV pilot in the spring and production of episodes for the regular season:  a writing/producing team is hired, audience focus groups weigh in, networks and studios (which may have had their own turnover in the off-season) give plenty of notes, both helpful and otherwise, and […]