The title BETTER LATE THAN NEVER may also have applied to its late-August launch. 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 […]
> FOX’s decision to move TOUCH to Thursdays and BONES to Mondays left THE FINDER as the odd show out, and today that other shoe fell: Finder will run its remaining episodes (essentially burning them off) on Fridays at 8PM, starting April 6. This pushes the unscripted HOTEL HELL to summer. This may not be […]
NETWORK FINALS: LAST MAN STANDING gained 0.1 in final numbers. Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart CABLE HIGHLIGHTS: Friday cable was a grab-bag of genres. Discovery’s GOLD RUSH led the night, up 0.05 to 0.94, with lead-out TREASURE QUEST up 0.04 to 0.44. A pair […]
OPENINGS: Despite a bounty of new titles, nothing touched the holdover at the top of the weekend box office. The newcomer with the closest claim to “success” in the US was THE POPE’S EXORCIST (Screen Gems/Sony), with $9.2M. The horror movie also reported $27.4M in overseas release, which would put it on a road […]
A good night for ABC. 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 and comparisons […]
THE WEEK. For the recently completed week ending Sunday (February 18-24, 2013), ABC will claim a rare victory with a preliminary 3.42 adult 18-49 rating in prime time, its best weekly showing of the year by far (thanks, of course, to The Oscars). And even better for ABC, this is better than last year’s Oscar week (3.14 […]
EMPIRE went back to rising. 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 […]
WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD. Here is an updated look at the 2017 film slates by studio. YEAR TO DATE BOX OFFICE. Looking at North American box office, 2017 to date is now down -2% from last year and now +2% above the average for this point the past four years ($6.820 billion). Over the same period, Hollywood films […]