NBC hopes last night’s Revolution rating was an April Fool’s joke. Last night’s ratings compared to the comparable night last year, in this case March 26 instead of April 2 because the NCAA Champsionship was played in early April last year. NBC: REVOLUTION fell to a series low 2.3 last night, down 0.3 from last […]
With March in the books, the North American box office is showing some signs of life. Through 12 weeks (84 days), 2013 totals $1.898 billion (looking at wide-release films playing on at least 400 screens). 2013-to-date is making a slight move away from the same period in the truly dreadful years of 2008 ($1.803 billion) […]
More numbers have been released for Sunday night’s event cable airings, and it was a big night for everyone. The most voracious bite came from the Season 3 finale of THE WALKING DEAD, setting a new record with 12.4M total viewers for the 9PM initial airing alone. It also had 8.1M 18-49 viewers, making […]
The NCAA men’s basketball championship tournament rolled on Sunday with two games to select the last Final Four spots. The two games averaged 19% higher household ratings than last year in the 56 local markets measured by Nielsen (covering 70% of the country). The second game at 5:00 Sunday almost hit the magic 10.0 rating […]
CBS won another week with NCAA basketball tournament games throughout the week and a lot of repeats on the other networks. NBC’s The Voice returned to the schedule this week, putting NBC in a virtual three-way tie with ABC and FOX (with only four-hundreths of a rating point separating second from fourth place). Weekly Rating Mar […]
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 […]
OPENINGS: As usual with new arrivals, the eager studios behind GI JOE: RETALIATION (Paramount/MGM) have claimed a low Sunday decline (2d lowest in the Top 10), so the $41.2M weekend and $51.7M opening 4 days could slip a bit when final numbers are released tomorrow–and even if they don’t, that 4 day figure is […]
The latest International box office summary: