Completely updated with official national ratings. Thursday premiere night is down 23% collectively for the broadcast networks (10.5 Adult 18-49 rating last night versus 13.7 last fall on premiere Thursday).  CBS is most on track, winning the night and just two tenths of a rating point behind both last year and our estimate for the […]

[NFL Thursday Night Football on Amazon Prime Video added to chart below]   BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  STATION 19 gained 0.02 to 0.53, GREY’S ANATOMY slipped 0.02 to 0.53, and ALASKA DAILY was down 0.06 to 0.26. CBS:  YOUNG SHELDON jumped 0.17 to 0.65, and GHOSTS was up 0.15 to 0.64.  SO HELP ME TODD gained […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  The STANLEY CUP FINALS adjusted up by 0.2 to a final 1.7.  FOX’s MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL coverage stayed at 0.5.  CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  The Saturday night cable winner isn’t actually on the chart below, because Adult Swim’s DRAGON BALL Z is technically a rerun, although the current versions of the episodes haven’t been shown in […]

  ABC:  WHAT WOULD YOU DO followed a 0.9 SHARK TANK rerun with 1.0, up 0.2 from last week’s holiday weekend.  20/20 also benefited from the additional eyeballs watching TV, up 0.3 to 1.0. CW:  MASTERS OF ILLUSION was at 0.3, and then after a 0.3 WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY rerun, THE MESSENGERS gained […]

  ANONYMOUS:  Watch It At Home – The Bard Was A Beard, Claims Wheezy Expose   ANONYMOUS is history tailored for the 1%. Although screenwriter John Orloff and director Roland Emmerich have swirled it into a complicated tangle of conspiracies and scandals, the idea at the center of Anonymous is simple enough (uh, Spoiler Alert):  […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  ABC’s streak of upward adjustments continued on Friday, with LAST MAN STANDING, SHARK TANK and 20/20 all up 0.1.  Ratings in key demos for the Top 25 original cable telecasts Friday: CHART UPDATED BELOW with the Fox Sports 1 NLDS Games.  All four League Division Series on Friday are now listed. Friday’s cable […]

> Charlie Sheen will be on the air the night Ashton Kutcher takes over the lead role on Two and a Half Men.  Just not on CBS.  Deadline reports Comedy Central will air its roast of Sheen at 10 pm on Monday, September 19, the same night CBS premieres the new Charlie Sheen-free version at […]

A surprise Thursday night victory for NBC last night, which had less to do with America’s Got Talent and much more to do with President Obama.  NBC started the night at 8 pm with a displaced America’s Got Talent episode (which would have run Wednesday were it not for the NFL kick off game).  AGT averaged a 1.8 rating, […]