> For those who don’t know, PaleyFest is a yearly 2-week program sponsored by The Paley Center For Media in Los Angeles, in which every night (or occasional weekend afternoon) is devoted to saluting a particular television show, usually a mix of the season’s brightest new series and a few older shows.  Each presentation begins […]

  Midseason programming arrived with some promise. 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). Ratings analysis and comparisons follow […]

Based on Friday’s and Saturday’s grosses, weekend #51 of 2014 now looks like $127 million for the top 12 films Friday-Sunday, up slightly from yesterday’s estimate ($126 million) and now up 5% from the norm for this weekend ($121 million) but down -8% from the same weekend last year.   Continuing at 3,875 theaters, The Hobbit: […]

    FRIDAY AFTERNOON UPDATE:  Both Variety and The Hollywood Reporter are reporting, based on Friday afternoon sales, that MOCKINGJAY is going to substantially underperform THE HUNGER GAMES and CATCHING FIRE for the day, and therefore for the weekend, to an extent that goes far beyond the fact that unlike the others in the series, […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  BACHELOR IN PARADISE premiered at 0.65, down 0.28 from last season’s premiere (on a Monday).  THE ROOKIE: FEDS premiered at 0.34, 0.03 higher than Sunday’s premiere of its parent series. CBS:  FBI fell a tenth to 0.54, FBI: INTERNATIONAL dipped 0.02 to 0.48, and FBI; MOST ANTED was down 0.04 to […]

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 11: March 6-12, 2023 Broadcast News: Current Week Broadcast News: Same Week Last Year   Broadcast Late Night: Current […]

Note: The numbers below are inflated by tenths of a rating point by multiple major-market pre-emptions for the final night of NFL Preseason: ABC (Los Angeles-Chargers, Houston, Cleveland, Charlotte, Nashville, Buffalo) CBS (New York-Jets, Boston, Dallas, Bay Area-49ers, Pittsburgh, Miami, Kansas City, Cincinnati) NBC (New York-Giants, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Baltimore, Milwaukee, Phoenix, Tampa) FOX (Chicago, […]

  UPDATE:  All the adjustments were upward, but they were also only by 0.1, giving a little extra to BELIEVE, RESURRECTION, COSMOS, ONCE UPON A TIME, AMERICAN DAD and AMERICA’S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS.  SUNDAY CABLE:  A particularly wrenching hour of THE WALKING DEAD (AMC) continued to be the biggest thing on all of television, swamping […]