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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 of 2). COMPARISONS TO SIMILAR NIGHTS: Preliminary adult 18-49 ratings versus the same night […]

THE WEEK.  For the recently completed week ending Sunday (February 11-17, 2013), FOX won with a preliminary 2.11 adult 18-49 rating in prime time, down from last week’s 2.25 rating but still ahead of the horrible performances by the other networks. CBS will fall to second place with a preliminary 1.89 adult 18-49 rating, down from last week’s Grammy-boosted 3.32 […]

Here are the network schedules for fall 2014 for ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX, as a handy reference.  As usual, new shows are denoted in italics. Also, note The CW will be airing The Originals and Jane the Virgin on Mondays, The Flash and Supernatural on Tuesdays, Arrow and The 100 on Wednesdays, The Vampire Diaries and Reign on Thursdays, and Whose Line […]

> Despite the comparably dismal length of their Broadway runs, MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG is an entirely different species of flop from Carrie. The latter was an intruder on the Great White Way from the start, the implausible musical version of a Stephen King novel and hit horror flick that mixed high school, pigs’ blood […]

Three films are really driving a very solid box office weekend: The Amazing Spider-Man (now a $65.0 million opening weekend and $140 million six-day opening, hitting our forecast in Tuesday’s ShowbuzzDaily Weekend Predictions), the second weekend of Ted (down a very decent 40% from its opening) and the third weekend of Brave (down 41% this […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  MASTERCHEF gained 0.1 in final numbers, and the rerun of ARROW lost the same (putting the latter down to 0.1, a dismal number even for a summer rerun).         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Discovery’s ALASKAN BUSH PEOPLE was at the […]

      NETWORK FINALS:  THE FLASH gained 0.1 in final numbers, and the rerun THE MASKED SINGER lost the same.          Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  History’s CURSE OF OAK ISLAND led Tuesday cable, down 0.06 to 0.77, with PROJECT BLUE BOOK down 0.07 to 0.31.  […]