NETWORK FINALS:  FOX’s COLLEGE FOOTBALL bowl game stayed at 0.7 after adjustment.  Elsewhere, the CHICAGO PD rerun gained 0.1 in final numbers, and the rerun of THE GOLDBERGS dropped 0.1.       Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  ESPN was firmly in control of Wednesday cable with […]

WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD.  The release of Godzilla has pushed Warner Brothers into second place, just behind Sony (each with around $1.3 billion worldwide to date in 2014).  20th Century Fox ($1.1 billion to date worldwide) and Disney ($1.0 billion worldwide to date) are fairly close behind.   But Godzilla will really kick in overseas starting with next week’s update, […]

> Not much good news for anyone–including the night’s winner. FOX:  The network ran the table 8-10PM, but with ugly numbers:  GLEE and NEW GIRL both set season lows, and RAISING HOPE was just 0.1 above its low.  For the first time in quite a while, Glee was below a 3 rating. ABC:  LAST MAN […]

> For many years, the National Board of Review has been the self-appointed first group on the calendar to announce awards for Best Picture and other categories.  The NBR is sort of like the Golden Globes without super-powers; they’re 110 people tangentially related to the world of film whom you’ve never heard of and whose […]

Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday September 28 through Sunday October 4, 2020.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size now 200K P2+ live+same day).  Programs are grouped by sport and ranked within each sport by P2+ audience size. For comparison, here is the similar chart […]

Based on Friday’s and Saturday’s grosses, Weekend #17 of 2013 is looking like $81 million for the top 12 films, down 33% from the average the past few years for this weekend and down 16% from the same weekend last year.  Michael Bay’s Pain and Gain opened fairly quietly — not a total disaster but nothing […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  The US OPEN remained at its morning rating, and there were no other adjustments. CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Lifetime’s A DEADLY ADOPTION, a quasi-prank from Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig, won the night at 0.63.  (A Hallmark original movie PERFECT MATCH was far behind at 0.16.)  Adult Swim’s late night block remained strong, with KILL LA […]

  With 3 nights left in the broadcast season, an evening light on finales. 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 […]