> FX’s AMERICAN HORROR STORY held up quite well in its second airing last night with a 1.4 in 18-49s, dropping only about 15% from its premiere (even though it faced new competition from the return of USA’s PSYCH, which did a 1.0). That’s may not be Walking Dead level success (the zombies did 2.4 […]

  OPENINGS:  CRAZY RICH ASIANS (Color Force/SK Global/Warners) had a strong 42% Saturday bump, an especially bright sign for a film that might have been expected to play as front-loaded for a niche audience.  That pushed its weekend to $25.2M, with a total of $34M since its Wednesday opening.  It was just slightly below the […]

  A likely winner last night was on ESPN, the MLB HOME RUN DERBY.  Ratings for cable won’t be available until around 1 pm PT, but last year’s Derby hit a 2.7 rating with adults 18-49. CBS:  UNDER THE DOME has now diverged quite a bit from Stephen King’s original novel, not always to good effect, but the […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  SHARK TANK slipped 0.02 to 0.48, and 20/20 was down 0.04 to 0.30. CBS:  A pair of GREATEST #ATHOME VIDEOS specials was at 0.20/0.18.  A BLUE BLOODS rerun ended the night at 0.24. NBC:  A run of the movie SING (tying in with the sequel’s release this week) was at 0.39, […]

> Comparisons to last Monday may be misleading, since due to baseball overrun that night, many shows aired either out of their normal timeslots or against atypical competition. FOX:  TERRA NOVA, for example, didn’t begin until almost 9PM last week, and FOX can’t be pleased that it didn’t come back last night all the way […]

  Now that we’ve looked through all the major and mini-major Hollywood studios (Disney, Warner Bros, Paramount, Sony, 20th Century Fox, Universal and Lionsgate/Summit) and examined their summers, today we’ll wrap up our summer studio survey with snapshots of some of the more prominent independent studios.  Summer isn’t their key season–the August/September film festivals will […]

  BROADCAST FINALS:  Naturally the day and night were dominated by ABC’s NFL games (branded as “MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL” despite the calendar) at 2.65/3.19.  The other networks mostly featured reruns, although CW’s originals returned at 0.09/0.06.   Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  On ESPN, the NFL games were at 1.98/1.81.  Hallmark’s […]

>Five weeks into the 2011-12 season, FOX has taken the lead with a 3.0 Adult 18-49 rating in primetime.  Even though the World Series is at low levels compared to past Series, baseball still provides numbers each night higher than the network weekly average.  CBS is second with a 2.85 (CBS was hurt this week […]