A big night for CBS’s sitcoms. 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 […]

  BROADCAST FINALS:  THE GREAT AMERICAN TAG SALE was at 0.35, and THE AMERICAN RESCUE DOG SHOW was at 0.25. CBS:  The season finale of SURVIVOR was at 0.79, down 0.13 from last week and down two-tenths from the December 2021 finale (however, in December it was presented as a 2-hour finale and separate lower-rated […]

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 19: May 1-7, 2023 Broadcast News: Current Week Broadcast News: Same Week Last Year   Broadcast Late Night: Current […]

Scandal shows some heat. ABC:  A dynamite episode of SCANDAL (written by creator Shonda Rhimes) that managed to propel the story both backwards and forwards via flashbacks and a startling episode-ending revelation had by far its best-rated episode of the season, up 0.3 from last week to 2.5 and notching a 10PM win.  This was […]

ABC won Week 40 of the broadcast season (June 18-24) with a 2.37 Adult 18-49 rating in prime time, its second weekly win in a row (thanks to two NBA Finals games — #4 and #5).  But ABC could really have used a Game 6 on Sunday.  Last year, the second week of the NBA […]

      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 May 23, 2021 P18-49 P2+ Rank […]

  OPENINGS:  With little else new around, DRAGON BALL SUPER: SUPER HERO (Crunchyroll/Sony) seized the weekend with $20.1M, a bit lower than the studio’s Dragon Slayer: Mugen Train, which opened with $21.2M at about half the number of theaters.  Dragon Ball, like most anime titles, was heavily skewed to the M18-34 audience, and it may […]

  OPENINGS:  WINCHESTER (CBS/Lionsgate) didn’t benefit from having the weekend to itself, with a $9.3M opening that was undistinguished even by the standards of low-budget horror Super Bowl Weekend arrivals.  (The Messengers: $14.7M, Rings:  $13M, Darkness Falls:  $12M, The Uninvited: $10.3M, to name a few.)  It might reach $20M or so in the US, which […]