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The Sked: SATURDAY Ratings 4.11.2015

Posted April 12, 2015 by Mitch Metcalf

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). ###

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SHOWBUZZDAILY SUNDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 5.1.2016

Posted May 2, 2016 by Mitch Metcalf

  The first “event” of May sweeps went splat. 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 […]

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UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Sunday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 8.2.2020

Posted August 4, 2020 by Mitch Metcalf

        NETWORK FINALS:  ABC’s NBA game and NBC’s CANNONBALL gained 0.1 in final numbers, and the rerun AMERICA’S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS lost the same.          Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Paramount’s YELLOWSTONE stayed on top of Sunday scripted cable, steady at 0.73 (plus 0.14 […]

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NIELSENWAR: Hindsight, Girlfriends’ Guide, and The Perks of Being In the Cable Scripted Game

Posted March 16, 2015 by Mitch Salem

  Everyone knows that TV is a pitiless business, where a show lives or dies by the ratings it receives. Except… not always. Today, VH1 announced that it was renewing its time-travel dramedy Hindsight, even though the show’s Season 1 finale had a 0.17 rating in 18-49s, losing 70% of its Mob Wives lead-in.  (And […]

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Roger Ebert (1942-2013): The Balcony Is Closed

Posted April 4, 2013 by Mitch Salem

  Roger Ebert, after enduring cancer with extraordinary fortitude for over a decade, passed away today.  Ebert was one of the smartest, hardest-working and most passionate film critics of his generation, and almost certainly the most famous.  Although he was devoted to criticism expressed in writing–both in newspapers (and books) and, later in his career, […]

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The Sked: Saturday Network Scorecard 9.23.2017

Posted September 24, 2017 by Mitch Metcalf

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 […]

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UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Friday Cable Originals & Network Update: 12.25.2015

Posted December 29, 2015 by Mitch Metcalf

      NETWORK UPDATE:  Both CW reruns, the IHEARTRADIO JINGLE BALL and WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY, lost 0.1 in final numbers. Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  There wasn’t much original programming on Christmas night to hang on the tree.  Once again, our Top 150 chart reaches all the […]

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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Wednesday 3.1.2023 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED

Posted March 2, 2023 by Mitch Salem

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  THE CONNERS fell 0.12 to 0.39, THE GOLDBERGS dipped 0.03 to 0.34, ABBOTT ELEMENTARY lost 0.08 to 0.42, and NOT DEAD YET was down 0.07 to 0.29.  A MILLION LITTLE THINGS was steady at 0.20. CBS:  The season premiere of SURVIVOR was at 0.66, down 0.18 from last spring’s premiere.  The […]

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