Hollywood didn’t have a particularly strong presence in this year’s Super Bowl (won, for those living in a very well insulated cave, by Baltimore, which held off San Francisco 34-31), despite the fact that the abrupt 35-minute semi-blackout just after halftime felt like it could have been the first act of a Die Hard […]

  OPENINGS:  The only new wide release on Halloween weekend was the low-budget horror movie COME PLAY (Focus/Universal), which was relatively impressive compared to last week’s $1.3M for Empty Man with $3.2M.  It seemed to be helped by pandemic considerations, because while normally a Saturday Halloween would be a down day, this year moviegoing appeared […]

  In addition to the shows below, note that the 2d episode of THE KNICK (Cinemax) didn’t make the chart (it was #43 of the night’s cable originals) with a 0.13 rating in 18-49s and 419K total viewers.  That was encouragingly up from last week’s premiere (0.10/354K), although this week’s episode wasn’t available for viewing on VOD […]

The weekend after Labor Day normally has the lowest box office volume of any weekend on the calendar.  Weekend #36 of 2012 will follow this pattern, and it could be the softest weekend since 2008: only about $51 million for the top 12 films this weekend.  No film will have a weekend over $10 million, […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  THE X-FILES dropped 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Basketball was at the top of Wednesday cable.  Tru’s continuing coverage of the NCAA TOURNAMENT play-in games was at 0.74/0.45.  ESPN’s NBA doubleheader was at 0.71/0.62.  VH1’s BLACK […]

  BROADCAST FINALS:  NBC’s US OPEN coverage was at 0.65.  FOX’s MLB game was at 0.19.  On CW, MASTERS OF ILLUSION dropped 0.02 to 0.02, and TOTALLY WEIRD & FUNNY was at 0.02/0.02 compared to last week’s 0.04/0.04.   Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  On ESPN, COLLEGE WORLD SERIES coverage was […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  As we noted on Saturday morning, since all the networks were disrupted by the 9PM presidential address, we’ll look at the Friday ratings more closely today now that we have adjusted finals. ABC:  ONCE UPON A TIME (0.4), AGENTS OF SHIELD (0.5) and 20/20 (0.4) were all down 0.1 […]

  Some good news for ABC. 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 […]