WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD. YEAR TO DATE BOX OFFICE. Looking at North American box office, 2015 to date is now +5% above last year and +8% above the average for this point the past four years ($2.827 billion).  Over the same period, Hollywood films have grossed $8.6 billion worldwide when we add overseas box office (that’s +9% […]

  2 veteran dramas had markedly different swings from their last episodes. 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). […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  Reruns at 0.31/0.28/0.20. CBS:  Reruns at 0.33/0.27/0.23. NBC:  AMERICA’S GOT TALENT ticked down to 0.64, and DANCING WITH MYSELF rose 0.08 to 0.36. FOX:  Reruns at 0.21/0.15. CW:  The season finale of SUPERMAN & LOIS was at 0.12, down 0.02 from last week and up 0.01 from the August 2021 finale.  […]

> Disclaimer:  Network pilots now in circulation are not necessarily in the form that will air in the Fall.  Pilots are often reedited and rescored, and in some cases even recast or reshot.  So these critiques shouldn’t be taken as full reviews, but rather as a guide to the general style and content of the […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  There were no changes from this morning’s preliminary ratings.          Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  On USA, WWE SMACKDOWN climbed 0.12 from last week’s Election Night airing to 0.80, and PURE COUNTRY premiered at 0.23.  History’s CURSE OF OAK ISLAND returned […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  FOX’s MLB game lost 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  A&E’s LIVE PD led Saturday cable, down 0.07 to 0.60, with lead-out GOTTI: GODFATHER & SON at 0.34.  The Adult Swim late-night line-up performed as follows:  DRAGON […]

> FOOTLOOSE has the advantage of facing no new direct competition on Friday.  That, along with what should be fairly good word of mouth, could give it some legs in the marketplace.  THE THING, on the other hand, had a make-or-break weekend this week with PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3 about to hit, and it’s not going […]

NOTE: We won’t have Thursday cable ratings until next week, but it’s a good bet that NFL Network’s THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL will dominate the eventual Christmas Eve ratings.  Meanwhile, the San Diego at Oakland game likely had very little impact on the broadcast fast nationals.  With two west coast teams involved, any local broadcast pre-emptions […]