BROADCAST FINALS:  ABC’s NHL game was at 0.28.  FOX’s COLLEGE BASKETBALL was at 0.29.  On CW, MASTERS OF ILLUSION ticked down to 0.04, and WORLD’S FUNNIEST ANIMALS was down 0.03 to 0.04.   Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  TNT’s NBA ALL-STAR SATURDAY NIGHT was at 1.29.  ESPN’s COLLEGE BASKETBALL was […]

> Matthew and Lady Mary 4Ever! The second season finale of DOWNTON ABBEY was watched by 5.4 million people, and while that may not sound like a lot (it’s about the same number as watched last night’s episode of Happy Endings, 3rd place in its timeslot), for PBS it’s pretty much Avatar.  It was the […]

  AFTERNOON UPDATE:  The WINTER OLYMPICS stayed at 6.6 in final numbers.  The only change in last night’s other fresh programming was a 0.1 drop in the 8PM airing of DADS to 1.1.  (A couple of ABC’s reruns also dropped 0.1.) TUESDAY CABLE:  TEEN MOMS (MTV), BEING MARY JANE (BET) and THE HAVES AND HAVE […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  THE BACHELOR dropped 0.07 to 0.52, and THE GOOD DOCTOR ticked down to 0.31. CBS:  Returning from a rerun week, THE NEIGHBORHOOD lost 0.04 to 0.52, BOB HEARTS ABISHOLA fell 0.06 to 0.45, NCIS was down 0.05 to 0.44, and NCIS: HAWAII ticked down to 0.34. NBC:  THE VOICE rose 0.05 […]

>American Idol came to Tuesday night for a special episode.  Although it won the night, the episode was down 41% from the comparable edition last year and had a relatively limited effect on the other networks, whose ratings were not terribly different from last week.               Nightly Adult 18-49 Rating […]

  AFTERNOON UPDATE:  NBC wasn’t able to exclude the 8PM half-hour of its WINTER OLYMPICS coverage, and consequently its rating stayed at 5.0, just barely above the 2d-lowest night of Turin  And without getting too far into spoiler territory, tonight’s ratings may end up being disappointing as well.  CRIMINAL MINDS gained back 0.1 of its […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  STATION 19 dropped 0.06 to 0.39, and GREY’S ANATOMY was down 0.07 to 0.41.  A JEREMY RENNER INTERVIEW special was at 0.37. CBS:  Reruns at 0.34/0.29/0.18/0.14. NBC:  The LAW & ORDER franchise featured the mothership up 0.05 to 0.45, SVU down a tick to 0.51, and LAW & ORDER: ORGANIZED CRIME […]

> ABC’s ONCE UPON A TIME is one of the few no-question-about-it hits of the current television season, and the gathering at today’s PaleyFest session, while enormously enthusiastic, was less raucous and more comfortably pleased than last night’s crowd for Community.  (If Community‘s fans sometimes had the air of an Occupy rally that had actually […]