OPENINGS:  THE GRUDGE (Columbia/Sony) tried to take advantage of Hollywood’s early January fallow period, but at $11.3M, the reboot of a remake found few takers, far below the $29.6M for 2018’s Insidious: The Last Key, and also less than the $13.7M for 2017’s Underworld: Blood Wars and the $15M for 2015’s The Woman In […]

BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  STATION 19 was steady at 0.45, GREY’S ANATOMY gained 0.05 to 0.48, and the season finale of ALASKA DAILY was down 0.02 to 0.19. CBS:  Back from a 2-week break, YOUNG SHELDON dropped a tenth to 0.58, GHOSTS lost 0.06 to 0.55, SO HELP ME TODD dipped 0.03 to 0.31, and CSI: […]

  McDreamy mourners may have been angry, but they showed up. 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). Ratings […]

  OPENINGS:  LITTLE WOMEN (Columbia/Sony) had a solid start with $16.5M over the 3-day weekend ($29M since Wednesday).  The next week will be particularly difficult to predict because of the midweek holiday, after which schools will mostly remain closed but some adults will be going back to work.  If Little Women can reach $50M by […]

Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday May 6 through Sunday May 12, 2019.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 300K 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 for the same […]

Even by the subdued standards of Friday network TV, this was a dull night. 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 […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  THE WORLD SERIES adjusted to 3.3, down 0.9 from last year’s Game 2.  Elsewhere, there were 0.1 bumps for SURVIVOR and CHICAGO FIRE, while CHICAGO MED and SINGLE PARENTS lost the same.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  FX’s AMERICAN HORROR […]

          NETWORK FINALS:  Game 5 of the NBA FINALS adjusted up to 7.6 in final numbers (and the mini-JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE adjusted to 1.2).  Elsewhere, SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE gained 0.1, but both REIGN and the new WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY lost the same.         […]