No medal for THE BACHELOR WINTER GAMES. 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 […]

Here are the weekend sports ratings for Saturday and Sunday October 28-29, 2017.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 300K P2+).  Programs are grouped by sport and ranked within each sport by P2+ audience size. For comparison, here is the same chart for the same weekend last year, October 29-30, […]

> CBS narrowly won the second Friday of the season with a 1.5 Adult 18-49 rating (each of the three scripted programs was down 0.2 from premiere week), while NBC and FOX followed closely with a 1.4 rating, fueled by lower cost unscripted fare.  Dateline averaged a 1.6 over two hours and peaked at a […]

> Be sure to check out our SKED page for analysis of all the network schedules and 1st looks at next season’s new shows. Tomorrow:  Mitch Metcalf’s predictions of the Fall ratings.

  NETWORK UPDATE:  BIG BROTHER and the 60 MINUTES rerun each gained 0.1 in final numbers, while BATTLEBOTS lost 0.1. CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Discovery’s NAKED AND AFRAID was Sunday’s top cable show with a 1.23 rating, which was up an impressive 0.35 from its last airing 2 weeks ago.  Its NAKED AND AFRAID: WELCOME lead-in was […]

    LAST RESORT:  Thursdays 8PM on ABC   WHAT IT’S SAYING:  Crimson Tide, with Andre Braugher as Gene Hackman and Scott Speedman as Denzel Washington.  Nuclear stakes.  A lot of grim-faced guys underwater and in Washington, drawing lines in the sand.. WHAT IT’S REALLY SAYING:  This is the lead-in to Grey’s Anatomy?  That’s a […]

>The Hunger Games continues its rise up the worldwide box office chart with overseas revenue to date now $157 million to go along with an estimated final domestic haul of $380 million.  There is probably another $150-200 million to come from overseas territories, which would put it on track for $700 million worldwide.  New to […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  There were no adjustments from the morning’s preliminary ratings.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  USA’s WWE telecast was at 1.19/1.14/1.14, compared to last week’s 1.19/1.16/1.12.  VH1’s LOVE & HIP-HOP was at 1.11/1.01 compared to 0.89/0.84.  ESPN’s NBA doubleheader was at […]