> Without the train-wreck possibilities of the previous week’s Lindsay Lohan event, SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE‘s ratings last night were down about 20%.  That’s a bit below the season average, suggesting Hill, despite his breakout Moneyball success, still isn’t a household name, but the 2.6 in 18-49s was still more than double the rating for any […]

  CBS has reportedly closed a deal with Warner Bros Television to renew THE BIG BANG THEORY for 3 more seasons, which (pending renegotiation of expiring cast deals) would bring the show through Season 10.  This was a no-brainer for CBS, considering that Big Bang is by far the highest-rated non-NFL programming on broadcast television, […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  JEOPARDY MASTERS dropped 0.12 to 0.54, followed by a 20/20 special at 0.25. CBS:  The season finale of THE NEIGHBORHOOD was at 0.48, down 0.05 from last week and down 0.08 from last season’s finale.  The season finale of BOB HEARTS ABISHOLA was at 0.39, up a tick and down 0.12 […]

>CBS aired the low-rated first round of the NCAA basketball tournament, falling to a fourth-place 1.7 rating with Adults 18-49 (the same as last year’s result).  ABC received some decent news with Missing premiering to a 2.0 rating at 8 pm.  Not a huge number but better than the mid-1 rating they have seen for […]

  Little to note. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary live+same day 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 follows the chart. ABC:  […]

WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD.  Year to date, Warner Brothers remains head and shoulders above the other studios, while Sony and Universal form a second tier with about $500 million worldwide each for 2014 to date.  Lionsgate/Summit and Disney now join Fox and Paramount in the third tier (between $200 million and $300 million worldwide each). Scroll […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  JUDGE STEVE HARVEY returned at 0.33.  The belated season premiere of THE WONDER YEARS was at 0.22/0.18, compared to 0.67 for the show’s series premiere in September 2021.  SUPERSTAR was at 0.20. CBS:  Reruns at 0.24/0.21/0.20/0.12. NBC:  Reruns at 0.22/0.19/0.20/0.23. FOX:  MASTERCHEF gained 0.03 to 0.42, and FOOD STARS was down […]

>The most recent Promo Watch numbers are based on prime time broadcast network programming between March 14 and March 20, with about 8 hours of programming sampled for each network over that period.  (Click “read more” to see the latest chart.)ABC.  Promotion for Ashley Judd’s Missing is slowly being scaled back as attention to Shonda […]