BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  JEOPARDY COLLEGE CHAMPIONSHIP dropped 0.11 from Thursday to 0.50.  A 20/20 rerun followed at 0.46. CBS:  BIG BROTHER: CELEBRITY EDITION fell 0.09 from Wednesday to 0.45, followed by a BLUE BLOODS rerun at 0.24. NBC:  The WINTER OLYMPICS was at 0.97/1.14, down from 2.90 on the parallel night in 2018. FOX:  […]

  OPENINGS:  SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE (Marvel/Sony Animation) flew past expectations with a $120.5M US opening, more than triple Into the Spider-Verse‘s $35.4M start in 2018.  That made it the 2nd biggest opening of 2023, behind only The Super Mario Bros Movie.  Across probably won’t have the 5.4x multiple that Into did (Across is more […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  BIG BROTHER gained 0.1 in final numbers, and DATELINE lost the same.  In addition, FOX’s MLB PLAYOFFS game adjusted to 1.2.          Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  ESPN’s MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL rose 0.43 to 3.35.  USA’s WWE telecast was at 0.60/0.59/0.52 […]

Network Programmer conversation today:  “OK, Niagara Falls on a high wire worked–next time, let’s do someone walking on his hands across the Grand Canyon.” “Hopping across the Sahara Desert!”  “Swimming across the Atlantic Ocean–one hand tied behind his back.”  “Book it for Sweeps!” ABC:  MEGASTUNTS was a big hit for ABC last night, its 2.5 […]

  The GRAMMYS weren’t quite as tuneful as last year. 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 […]

Weekend #34 of 2014 is looking like $111 million for the top 12 films this weekend, up 30% from the norm for this weekend and the fourth up weekend in a row after six straight down weekends. Opening at over 2,750 theaters Friday (just below the 2,886 average theater count for opening weekends the last two years), Frank […]

  Although the WINTER OLYMPICS towered over everything else, several of the other networks weren’t suffering. 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 […]

WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD.  Updated look at 2016 films by studio.  We will begin tracking the 2017 slate in a few weeks.   YEAR TO DATE BOX OFFICE. Looking at North American box office, 2017 to date is now +1% above last year and now +9% above the average for this point the past four years ($0.400 billion). […]