NBC won another Monday night last night with adults 18-49 according to the fast national ratings, but it was the worst Monday rating of the season by a mile (a 3.3 rating from 8-11 pm compared to a 4.1 Monday night average the first eight weeks).   CBS finished in second with a 2.6 rating […]

SEASON TO DATE through eight full weeks (54 nights of official ratings and 2 nights of adjusted fast nationals through Sunday, November 18, 2012): NBC is averaging a 2.79 adult 18-49 rating in prime time (up 14% from the same period last year). CBS is in second place with a 2.34 (down 19%). FOX is in […]

The Past Week: Total Box Office Volume All films in wide release playing between November 12 and November 18 grossed an amazing $300 million, up 28% from the four-year average for the week and up 24% from the same week last year.    The past six weeks are now 13% above the four-year average and […]

  As this is a week when turkeys are revered, celebrated, and then eaten, let’s take a look at what wisdom the network’s Fall feathered non-fliers have to impart to us.  In other words, What did this Fall’s canceled series tell us that we didn’t already know? 666 PARK AVENUE (ABC):  There are two lessons […]

Not a tuneful evening. ABC:  The AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS collapsed to a 3.4, the highest non-football of the night and somewhat higher than what ABC has been doing on Sundays, but down 0.9 from last year’s telecast. FOX:  Without the benefit of last Sunday’s NFL overtime lead-in, THE SIMPSONS and BOB’S BURGERS were way down […]

Over the weekend football continued to dominate the afternoon sports daypart.  On Saturday, college football filled the air, but only one game broke out: Stanford upsetting Oregon in prime time on ABC.  The other big upset (Kansas State at Baylor) aired opposite it on ESPN, but the game never really got off the ground since […]

Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 enters the worldwide chart with $200 million overseas to date.  Ultimately, we expect the overseas number to rise to about $425 million, putting the final Twilight on track for $710 million ( a touch ahead of New Moon as the highest Twilight worldwide gross).  For a complete track of worldwide/ domestic/ overseas […]

  OPENINGS:  Thanks to a slightly higher Saturday than its predecessor (down 42% from Friday instead of 44%), THE TWILIGHT SAGA:  BREAKING DAWN PART 2 (Summit/Lionsgate) is headed for the 2nd highest opening of the franchise, its $141.3M behind only New Moon‘s $142.8M.  However, the series boxoffice numbers are so tightly bunched together that we […]