With 3 weeks to go until the London Olympics, NBC is already reaping some of the benefits of its coverage. NBC:  Nothing on the other networks could do more than tie the lowest-rated hour of last night’s US OLYMPIC TRIALS with a 1.4.  The highest rated Trials hours, Women’s Gymnastics in the 9-11PM slot, more […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  THE CONNERS dipped 0.05 to 0.46, THE GOLDBERGS was steady at 0.36, ABBOTT ELEMENTARY edged up 0.02 to 0.48, and HOME ECONOMICS was up 0.02 to 0.32.  BIG SKY gained 0.05 to 0.24. CBS:  SURVIVOR rose 0.14 to 0.80, but the premiere of THE REAL LOVE BOAT didn’t do much to […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  KEVIN (PROBABLY) SAVES THE WORLD and the rerun of THE FLASH dropped 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  USA’s WWE SMACKDOWN led Tuesday cable, down 0.06 to 0.76.  On History, CURSE OF OAK ISLAND fell 0.11 to […]

  DANCING WITH THE STARS lost the beat. 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 analysis and comparisons […]

  FOX announced most of its midseason decisions today, and there were a few surprises.  Biggest was the reduction of AMERICAN IDOL‘s Thursday night results show to 30 minutes, with the new sitcom SURVIVING JACK at 8:30PM, and the Greg Kinnear vehicle RAKE following at 9PM.  We’ve come a long way from the days when […]

The weekly rankings so far (through Thursday) for cable and broadcast programs.  In the official nationals, Thursday’s NFL season kickoff game (Baltimore at Denver) came in at a 10.3 rating with adults 18-49, the #1 show of the week by far at this point and ahead of last year’s 9.7 rating for the similar game […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  THE BACHELOR gained 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  USA’s WWE coverage led Monday cable at 0.78/0.75/0.70 compared to last week’s 0.80/0.78/0.72.  VH1’s LOVE & HIP-HOP was at 0.65/0.60 compared to last week’s 0.54.  Bravo’s BELOW DECK […]

Weekend #30 of 2015 is looking like $170 million for the top 12 films this weekend, above the norm for this weekend (see comparisons below). Pixels from Sony should open with a $37.5 million three-day weekend. Early reviews at RottenTomatoes are dreadful: 11% positive overall so far. Pixels is on track for around $95 million domestic. […]