Considering the almost laughably low level of the competition it faced, THE FATE OF THE FURIOUS (Universal) didn’t hold up well on its 2d Friday.  Preliminary numbers at Deadline have the day at $11.4M, down 75% from last week’s opening day.  That’s worse than the 72% Friday-to-Friday drop for Furious 7 (which was coming […]

  OPENINGS:  ANT-MAN & THE WASP (Marvel/Disney) turned out to be rather front-loaded, with a 30% Saturday drop (compared to 14% for the 2nd day of Ant-Man).  That pushed the studio weekend estimate down to $76M, which is still 33% better than Ant-Man‘s debut, but at the low end for Marvel, ahead of only the […]

> 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 […]

> The past week (seven days ending Sunday) came in down 10% versus last year’s comparable week (the third significant decline in a row).  Year-to-date box office is down 8% versus last year.    The Past Week: Total Box Office Volume All films in wide release playing between June 27 and July 3 grossed $331 […]

  Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Garth Brooks. CBS:  On an otherwise weak night, GARTH BROOKS: LIVE FROM LAS VEGAS towered over everything else at 1.8, better than anything CBS has run all fall in the 9-11PM Friday slot.  It was particularly impressive because the special got no lead-in at all from two rerun holiday specials, […]

      NETWORK FINALS:  DATELINE gained 0.1 in final numbers, and both THE VAMPIRE DIARIES and BLUE BLOODS fell 0.1.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Discovery was at the top of Friday cable with GOLD RUSH, down a tick to 1.06, and lead-out THE WHEEL […]

DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary live+same day 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 FINALS ABC:  AMERICAN IDOL ticked up to 0.74, and THE GOOD DOCTOR was up 0.06 to 0.44. CBS:  THE NEIGHBORHOOD was steady at 0.63, and BOB HEARTS ABISHOLA ticked up to 0.52.  NCIS ticked down to 0.54, and NCIS: HAWAII was down 0.03 to 0.49. NBC:  AMERICAN SONG CONTEST took a sharp 0.15 […]