NETWORK FINALS:  The AMERICA’S GOT TALENT rerun and both MASTERS OF ILLUSION episodes lost 0.1 in final numbers.           Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart       CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Cinemax’s heavily hyped new original OUTCAST had a terrible start, premiering at 0.06, a number that makes BANSHEE […]

  Due to our coverage of the Toronto Film Festival beginning tomorrow, over the next week, while morning and afternoon charts will be posted on schedule (Nielsen permitting, as yesterday’s and today’s delays underscore), the accompanying text will not be available for some time afterward, at least several hours and possibly even for a day […]

  Add CMA FEST to the list of yearly specials with hefty ratings drops. 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 […]

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). PREVIOUS SATURDAY NETWORK SCORECARDS (FAST NATIONALS) PREVIOUS SATURDAY CABLE & BROADCAST NATIONALS […]

> Just in case NBC’s creative failure to effectively repopulate SVU this season weren’t already glaringly obvious, CBS continues to show how it’s supposed to be done with their recasting on CSI, where they’re making lemons into lemony champagne.  (Let’s assume lemony champagne would actually be a good thing.)  In the fall, they very effectively […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  The rerun PRESS YOUR LUCK and 60 MINUTES gained 0.1 in final numbers, while the PGA overrun lost the same.          Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  TNT’s THE ALIENIST: ANGEL OF DARKNESS debuted with back-to-back episodes at 0.26/0.19, considerably below the […]

  Provocative, almost existential questions have circled this year’s Oscars since seconds after the nominations were announced.  Should the awards, and the Motion Picture Academy’s voting membership, mirror the actual state of the film industry, which is overwhelmingly dominated by older white men, or a Platonic ideal embodying a more diverse vision of what the […]

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). ###