The Voice increases its dominance. NBC:  THE VOICE inched up to match its Spring cycle Tuesday high of 4.5, and with CBS in reruns, it more than doubled its nearest competition.  However, that did absolutely nothing for READY FOR LOVE, which fell to 1.3, down 0.2 from its premiere and less than one-third of its […]

  SYFY:  The multiplatform DEFIANCE is the biggest project Syfy has tried to launch in quite a while, and its debut was fair if not overwhelming with a 1.0 in the 18-49 demo (only about 45% of the 2.7M total viewers were under 50, which may reflect the old-west flavor of the drama), plus another […]

  FRIDAY STARZ:  It doesn’t appear as though DA VINCI’S DEMONS is going to be a gamechanger for Starz, as the series debuted with a tame 0.4 in 18-49s, about half of the total viewership of 1M.  That was coming off a 0.6 rating for the series finale of SPARTACUS: WAR OF THE DAMNED, which […]

Through 14 weeks of the year, 2013 totals $2.232 billion (for wide-release films that have played at more than 400 theaters).  This remains well behind the 2012 pace ($2.624 billion) and the very similar 2010 pace ($2.618 billion).  However, 2013 continues to pull away from the particularly slow performance in 2011 ($2.071 billion). As a […]

Updated cable and broadcast rankings this week and last.

  Say what you will about NBC, but no one right now can touch its Monday night. NBC:  Remarkably, the network made a last-minute decision to preempt last night’s Revolution (which featured a bombing storyline) in favor of a NBC News Special about the Boston Marathon bombings–and the news special did a 3.1, almost a […]

CBS Sports continues its springtime roll, with The Masters coverage over the weekend up about 25% from last year.  Sunday’s final round hit an impressive 10.2 household rating in the 56 local markets measured by Nielsen (covering 70% of the country). NASCAR on Saturday night on FOX averaged a 3.5 household rating, down a tenth […]

Projected weekly network ratings in prime time (based on four days of official nationals and three days of fast nationals).  CBS racks up another victory (helped by an hour of The Masters spilling into prime time Sunday). Weekly Rating Apr 8-14 18-49 Rating vs Last Year CBS 2.44 -0.6% Down from 2.68 last week FOX […]