HANNIBAL‘s appetite decreased last night. NBC:  DATELINE started the night fairly strongly at 1.5, up 0.3 from last week, and GRIMM was up 0.1 to 1.5.  But HANNIBAL crashed to 0.8, down 0.3 from last week’s season premiere, and just slightly above last year’s season finale (which aired after the regular season was over). […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  There were no changes from the preliminary Tuesday numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS: On USA, WWE SMACKDOWN was up 0.08 to 0.95, and it was followed by the season premiere of CHRISLEY KNOWS BEST at 0.73 (far better than […]

  Happy New Year to all, as we dust off the last ratings of 2013: ABC:  NEW YEAR’S ROCKIN EVE, aka the Ryan Seacrest New Year’s Eve show, had no trouble disposing of NBC with a 3.7 that more than doubled the competition.  That was, however, down 0.5 from last year.  The late-night portion of […]

Based on Friday’s and Saturday’s grosses, weekend #13 of 2015 now looks like $146 million for the top 12 films Friday-Sunday, above the norms for this weekend. Opening at 3,708 theaters Friday, Home from Fox and DreamWorks Animation is on track for a $54.0 million opening three-day weekend (way above our non-believing $28.0 million ShowBuzzDaily forecast earlier this […]

      Analysis to follow.       Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   Top 50 Original Cable Telecasts with Demographic Detail Top 150 Original Cable Telecasts To search for a show: type Ctrl-F and type your show title in the search box. Top 150 Original Cable Telecasts: Thursday June 3, 2021 P18-49 P2+ Rank […]

              Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   Note: The Commander-In-Chief Forum special listed below is a combined rating of both NBC and MSNBC viewership for the simulcast.   CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  HARLEY AND THE DAVIDSONS ended its strong run for Discovery at 0.88, and ended in time for a 12-minute preview […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  The reruns of DATELINE, SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE and AMERICAN IDOL lost 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  ESPN’s coverage of the NFL DRAFT remained strong at 0.67 (plus 0.19 for the NFL Network telecast), and the network’s […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  There was no mercy in the final numbers for WEIRD LONERS or THE DOVEKEEPERS.  However, THE VOICE, NCIS, THE FLASH and FOREVER all received 0.1 bumps. Ratings in key demos for the Top 25 original cable telecasts (plus a few other lower-rated but noteworthy programs): YOUNGER (TV Land) debuted with a 0.17 […]