NETWORK REPORT: ABC:  DANCING WITH THE STARS dropped 0.1 from last week’s cycle premiere to 1.0, and THE CROSSING stayed at 0.5. CBS:  The season finale of KEVIN CAN WAIT climbed 0.2 from last week to 1.0 (down 0.1 from 2017), and MAN WITH A PLAN was up 0.1 to 0.9.  […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  There were no changes from the preliminary Wednesday ratings.           Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  TBS’s MLB PLAYOFFS game was on top of Wednesday cable at 1.80.  FX’s AMERICAN HORROR STORY: APOCALYPSE grew by 0.08 to 1.00.  On Comedy Central, SOUTH […]

  The $17.1M opening day (including $3.4M from Thursday night) for GHOSTBUSTERS (Columbia/Sony) reported in preliminary numbers at Deadline would be fine if the movie were at the same budget level as previous Paul Feig/Melissa McCarthy collaborations The Heat or Spy.  But Ghostbusters cost 2-3x as much, $275M+ including production and global marketing, and a […]

      NETWORK FINALS:  There were no changes from the preliminary Saturday ratings.          Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  CNN’s SESAME STREET TOWN HALL led Saturday cable at 0.32/0.41/1.3M, with Fox News’s GREG GUTFELD SHOW at 0.26/0.42/2.7M, and MSNBC LIVE at 0.11/0.16/1M.  ESPN’s UFC PRELIMS was […]

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). Note: The fast affiliate-based ratings below measure what aired on […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  AMERICA’S GOT TALENT and BACHELOR IN PARADISE gained 0.1 in final numbers, and HOLLYWOOD GAME NIGHT and the 9PM BLACK-ISH rerun as well as the reruns of THE FLASH and LEGENDS OF TOMORROW lost the same.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  All the adjustments were downward from this morning’s numbers, with 0.1 declines for THE MINDY PROJECT, SUPERNATURAL, MARRY ME, ABOUT A BOY and the 8:30PM rerun of PARKS & RECREATION. Ratings in key demos for the Top 25 original cable telecasts (plus a few other lower-rated but noteworthy programs): BET’s BEING MARY […]

  It’s not a good sign when a new series’ episode rates almost the same as the reruns that follow it. 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 […]