NETWORK FINALS:  9-1-1 gained 0.1 in final numbers, while MANIFEST and THE GOOD DOCTOR lost the same.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  News topped Monday cable again, with Fox News’s THE STORY at 0.75/1.19/6.1M, CNN’s SITUATION ROOM at 0.67/0.95/3.4M, and MSNBC’s RACHEL […]

  Preliminary box office numbers at Deadline give Friday, as expected, to CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2 (Sony), and it will easily win the weekend as well.  Its $10M opening day is above the original Cloudy in 2009 ($8.1M) but below last year’s Hotel Transylvania ($11M), and with a sequel’s usual frontloading, it’s […]

  Sundance is sometimes thrilling, but it can also be an ordeal.  Especially when the films are good, but not great.  And even more so if you arrive with limited tickets, and are left to the tender mercies of the Wait List lines (which, given Sundance’s idiosyncratic approach to Wait Lists, requires standing on each […]

  Only the WOMENS WORLD CUP livened up a dull night. 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 […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  The only adjustments from preliminary numbers were for reruns:  an 0.1 bump  for RUNNING WILD, and 0.1 decreases for HAWAII 5-0 and HOME FREE. CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  As we’ve noted before, we’re relying on readers telling us that the anime shows running on Adult Swim are originals in their current versions (although in some cases the […]

  DEC. 26 UPDATE:  A mere adjustment to overaggressive estimation or an early sign, in this instant word-of-internet age, that audiences aren’t having a good time?  The major change from last night’s early numbers is that THE WOLF OF WALL STREET slipped to $9.2M, falling behind THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG for 2d place […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  BACHELOR IN PARADISE premiered at 0.65, down 0.28 from last season’s premiere (on a Monday).  THE ROOKIE: FEDS premiered at 0.34, 0.03 higher than Sunday’s premiere of its parent series. CBS:  FBI fell a tenth to 0.54, FBI: INTERNATIONAL dipped 0.02 to 0.48, and FBI; MOST ANTED was down 0.04 to […]

  ADJUSTED UPDATE:  An assortment of 0.1 adjustments, up for THE AMAZING RACE, down for THE GOOD WIFE, BELIEVE, AMERICAN DREAM BUILDERS and DATELINE.  SATURDAY CABLE:  ORPHAN BLACK (BBCAmerica) was at 0.3 in its Season 2 debut.  That number doesn’t sound like much, but it roughly triples what the series was doing in most of […]