The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday February 28 and Sunday March 1, 2015. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. College Basketball Saturday 0.91 rating CBS 12:00 pm Georgetown at St John’s 1.31 rating CBS 2:00 […]

  Yesterday ABC announced a full-season order for NASHVILLE, adding the usual back 9 to its initial 13 episodes.  The show’s ratings haven’t been great, hovering in the 1.8-2.0 neighborhood in recent weeks, but that’s been enough for 2d place in the hour (except last week, when Chicago Fire received a boost from a massive […]

  NOTE:  ALL RATINGS INCLUDE APPLICABLE ADJUSTMENTS FOX:  THE LAST MAN ON EARTH fell 0.5 from its premiere, but was still quite strong at 1.9.  It was preceded by BOB’S BURGERS (down 0.2 to 1.2), THE SIMPSONS (down 0.2 to 1.6), BROOKLYN NINE-NINE (down 0.3 to 1.5), and FAMILY GUY (didn’t air last week due […]

  UPDATE:  More refined Wednesday numbers are in via The Hollywood Reporter, and the major difference from the numbers below was for SILVER LININGS NOTEBOOK, which made $656K rather than $550K. still off the pace of last year’s The Descendants, which had a very similar release pattern.  Also, RED DAWN made $4.2M rather than $4.5M, […]

  OPENINGS:  The only wide launch this week (2027 theatres) was the horror movie THE EMPTY MAN (20th/Disney), which despite its big-studio credentials had a nearly invisible level of marketing behind it, and started with a $1.3M weekend that was low even by pandemic standards. AFTER WE COLLIDED (Open Road) had a limited arrival at […]

> Worth a ticket. The director and writer of Saw, James Wan and Leigh Whannell, combine again to bring us–hey, where are you going?  No, seriously:  don’t run away.  Leaving aside that Saw is rather unfairly maligned (before it became the poster child for “torture porn” and a dumb sequel machine for Lionsgate, the original […]

The second and final night of the “First Four” play-in games of the NCAA Basketball Tournament were right on target versus past years.  The 6:30 pm game on TRU TV Wednesday night was almost identical to same time period last year, while the 9:15 pm was up slightly in the 18-49 sales demographics and right […]

ABC’s Fall Finale Sunday was a moderate success. ABC:  ONCE UPON A TIME could only hold even at 3.1 for its last episode of 2012.  REVENGE climbed 0.2 to 2.4, but that didn’t put it far above last week’s season low.  For what it matters, 666 PARK AVENUE was also up 0.2 to a still-tepid […]