There was bad news for just about everyone last 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 FINALS:  The MLB ALL-STAR GAME adjusted up to 2.3 in final numbers, up 0.1 from the final rating for 2016’s game.  In addition, AMERICA’S GOT TALENT gained 0.1.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Freeform faced life after PRETTY LITTLE LIARS last […]

      Analysis to follow.       Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   Top 50 Original Cable Telecasts with Demographic Detail Top 150 Original Cable Telecasts To search for a show: type Ctrl-F and type your show title in the search box. Top 150 Original Cable Telecasts: Sunday June 27, 2021 P18-49 P2+ Rank […]

  Hockey had a big–and epic–night. NBC:  Per Mitch Metcalf:  A very good rating for the NHL STANLEY CUP FINAL GAME 1.  The match lasted over five hours, and it was well into the third overtime period (almost two full games) when Chicago beat Boston 3-2.  The fast national rating of 2.4 with adults 18-49 […]

> This year SHOWBUZZDAILY live-blogged the ceremony.  We’ll have round-up pieces later tonight and tomorrow, but read below for the minute-by-minute feel of the experience as it happened– 8:35PM: But the fun couldn’t last, and with the suspense so thin you could cut it with a straw, THE ARTIST takes its prize. And the friggin […]

  OPENINGS:  In the US, NO TIME TO DIE (UA/MGM) opened at $56M, at the low end of expectations–and “expectations” are usually already set low so that the press will report that a film has “overperformed”–and below the last three Bond films (Quantum of Solace $67.5M, Skyfall $88.4M, Spectre $70.4M).  Obviously the pandemic is a […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  AMERICA’S GOT TALENT and the JUSTICE FOR ALL special lost 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS: A WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE news special aired on HGTV at 0.11, on Food Network at 0.10, on OWN […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  The NFL HALL OF GAME adjusted to 2.0, still half a point below last year’s game.  Elsewhere, BIG BROTHER gained 0.1 in final numbers, and the reruns of THE BIG BANG THEORY and SUPERNATURAL lost the same.           Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     […]