Based on Friday’s and Saturday’s grosses, weekend #27 of 2015 looks like $133 million for the top 12 films Friday-Sunday, a little better than yesterday’s estimate but still below the norm for this weekend but slightly above last year’s similar bummer of a July 4th weekend.   Opening at 3,758 theaters Friday, Terminator: Genisys from Paramount is now on track […]

  A truncated night, due to the STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS. 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). […]

> A smiley face for one network and a frowny one for another, on the third night this week disrupted by postseason baseball. ABC:  Everything came up fairly rosy last night at the Alphabet.  SUBURGATORY should be inches away from a full season pick-up after its third consecutive strong outing, and even better, REVENGE went […]

> With baseball out of the way, last night was a picture of what a “typical” Thursday will look like. FOX:  The return of BONES was a very healthy 0.6 higher than its season premiere last year (when it was in the 8PM slot), and roughly on par with the numbers it was doing last […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  At CBS, BIG BROTHER rose 0.1 in final numbers and the CRIMINAL MINDS rerun lost 0.1.  (EXTANT stayed where it was.)  The BLACKISH rerun dropped 0.1. CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  The sharks won yet again, as Discovery’s week swam on.  This time, SUPER PREDATOR was at 1.51, NINJA SHARKS was at 1.44, and SHARK AFTER DARK was […]

  After a few mild weeks, INCREDIBLES 2 (Pixar/Disney) has the summer box office back in blockbuster mode.  It’s on pace to easily break Finding Dory‘s $135.1M animation opening record.  According to preliminary numbers at Deadline, Incredibles 2 had a massive $69M Friday (including $18.5M from Thursday night), far better than Dory‘s $54.7M.  If business […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL adjusted up to 6.9 in final numbers, far below last week’s 8.7.  For whatever it’s worth, BLOOD & OIL gained 0.1.  Everything on CBS was adjusted by 0.1:  down for 60 MINUTES and CSI: CYBER, up for MADAM SECRETARY and THE GOOD WIFE.  On FOX, the football-inflated GRINDER rerun […]

The ratings for last night’s Super Bowl are coming in a little lower than anticipated in terms of average audience (the number of households or viewers watching in an average minute), but the “total audience” (the number that watched all or part of the game) set a new record: 164.1 million people 2 years or […]