No good news for the shows that most needed it. ABC:  The second week of HAPPY ENDINGS‘ Big Friday Dump was even worse than the first, its two half-hours scoring 0.8/0.6, down from last week’s 1.1/1.0.  Creatively, the show is still in fine shape, so while its ABC career is clearly over, the question […]

      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 6, 2021 P18-49 P2+ Rank […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  There were significant adjustments (to the next tenth) for MAGNUM PI and WWE SMACKDOWN.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHIGHTS:  ESPN’s NBA doubleheader was at 0.30/0.28.  On VH1, RUPAUL’S DRAG RACE gained 0.02 to 0.26, and UNTUCKED ticked up to 0.18.  […]

  After two weeks of sloth, Hollywood started rolling out its pre-holiday product.  The weekend’s easy winner will be SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE (Sony Animation/Columbia/Sony), which had a $12.6M Friday according to preliminary numbers at Deadline, including $3.5M from Thursday night.  That should give it a $35M+ weekend.  Projections after that are tough, because there […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  THE GOLDBERGS ticked up to 0.59, THE WONDER YEARS gained 0.07 to 0.54, THE CONNERS rose 0.09 to 0.61, and HOME ECONOMICS was up 0.03 to 0.38.  A MILLION LITTLE THINGS (which won’t be airing next week) climbed 0.05 to 0.28. CBS:  SURVIVOR slipped 0.02 to 0.92, TOUGH AS NAILS lost […]

  The night was driven by football. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary live+same day 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 […]

  More truncated seasons.  DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary live+same day 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 follows the chart. ABC:  […]

  OPENINGS:  The opening day of THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 (Sony) was actually a touch behind the opening day of the first Amazing ($35.2M to $35.9M).  However the earlier movie had a different trajectory, opening on the Tuesday of July 4th week and with only $850K in Monday midnight screenings (Amazing 2, in comparison, started […]