> SOURCE CODE is this weekend’s major live-action opening, so here’s a look at some recent work by its star Jake Gyllenhaal and its director Duncan Jones. Gyllenhaal has had a curious Hollywood career thus far, and PRINCE OF PERSIA:  THE SANDS OF TIME, far from his most auspicious moment, was his first pre-Source Code […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  THE OSCARS saw a moderate boost from 2022, up 0.27 (7%) in 18-49s to 4.03, and up 2.15M (13%) in total viewers to 18.76M.  Although that’s still far below the 5.3/23.59M of 2020, it was still encouraging in the context of other awards shows heading steadily downward. CBS:  After a 60 […]

  NETWORK UPDATE: SVU rose 0.1 in final numbers, although the CHICAGO FIRE rerun at 8PM lost 0.1.  Elsewhere, there were also 0.1 gains for SURVIVOR and CRIMINAL MINDS, as well as for ARROW. CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Neither of the night’s premieres even made it to our supplemental chart.  The first 2 hours of HBO’s J.K. […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  The AFC CHAMPIONSHIP game adjusted to 11.83, down a bit from the final 12.2 for 2020’s primetime NFC game.  FBI, which began at 10:30PM, had a 1.98 rating.  In addition, there was a significant adjustment (to the next tenth) for AMERICA’S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS.         Broadcast […]

  OPENINGS:  GHOSTBUSTERS: FROZEN EMPIRE (Columbia/Sony) played as a family movie, with a Saturday afternoon bump, and that enabled it to match projections at $45.2M, slightly higher than the $44M start for 2021’s Ghostbusters: Afterlife.  However, Frozen Empire cost $25M more than Afterlife, so a 3% increase at the box office may not cover the […]

  Country music owned the 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 analysis and comparisons follow the […]

  We’re continuing with our 18-49 ratings predictions for the fall 2014 TV season.  As before, these predictions cover September 22 (the official start of the new season ) through December 7, and our views on the new series are based on looks at the trailers released last week.  We’ve already surveyed the fall’s Big […]

> You couldn’t ask for a better example of the way in which HBO is different from all other networks–even other pay-cable networks–than its decision today to cancel BORED TO DEATH, HUNG and HOW TO MAKE IT IN AMERICA, while renewing ENLIGHTENED.  While none of the shows were hits, even by pay-cable standards, all 3 […]