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Broadcast News & Late Night Series 6.7-6.13.2021

Posted June 15, 2021 by Mitch Metcalf

Broadcast news and late night series ratings available below for this week and the same week last year. You can also search for other available weeks with the link at the bottom of this post. Week 24: June 7-13, 2021 Broadcast News: Current Week Broadcast News: Same Week Last Year   Broadcast Late Night: Current […]

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The Sked: The Value of Sports Programming and Updated Full Season Forecasts

Posted February 26, 2013 by Mitch Metcalf

What does football mean to the broadcast networks?  For NBC and CBS, NFL coverage (along with other sports, mostly an occasional college football game) accounts for about 20-30% of the entire primetime rating for the network. For CBS, its 2.63 adult 18-49 rating for the season to date falls all the way down to a […]

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SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings 8.4-5.2018

Posted August 7, 2018 by Mitch Metcalf

Here are the weekend sports ratings for Saturday and Sunday August 4-5, 2018.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 300K P2+).  Programs are grouped by sport and ranked within each sport by P2+ audience size. For comparison, here is the same chart for the same weekend last year, August 5-6, […]

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THE SKED: Bragging Rights Go to “New Girl”

Posted September 28, 2011 by Mitch Salem

> NEW GIRL, riding high off its exceptional rating last night, today became the first new series of the season to score a back-order of Spring episodes.  Even better, FOX made a statement by ordering 11 additional episodes instead of the usual 9 (normally, even if the network thought they’d ultimately want 11, they’d order […]

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International Box Office through August 18

Posted August 18, 2013 by Mitch Metcalf

Updated international box office chart:

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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Five-Year Engagement”

Posted April 26, 2012 by Mitch Salem

  THE FIVE-YEAR ENGAGEMENT:  Watch It At Home – If Only The Engagement Were A Little Shorter…   Judd Apatow, as both director (The 40=Year Old Virgin, Knocked Up) and producer (Bridesmaids, Superbad, Pineapple Express, TV’s new Girls) has brought a tremendous amount of first-class comedy to large and small screens in recent years.  But […]

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The Sked: Saturday Network Scorecard 2.22.2020

Posted February 23, 2020 by Mitch Metcalf

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). PREVIOUS SATURDAY NETWORK SCORECARDS (FAST NATIONALS) PREVIOUS SATURDAY CABLE & […]

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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Thursday 4.7.2022 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED

Posted April 8, 2022 by Mitch Salem

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC: STATION 19 rose 0.07 to 0.63, GREY’S ANATOMY climbed 0.08 to 0.63, and BIG SKY was up 0.03 to 0.29. CBS:  After reruns at 0.38/0.36/0.34, HOW WE ROLL dropped 0.05 to 0.29, and BULL was down 0.04 to 0.25. NBC:  The line-up returned from a 2-week break, with LAW & ORDER […]

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