NETWORK FINALS:  THE MASKED SINGER, THE AMAZING RACE, CHICAGO MED and CHICAGO PD all gained 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Another heavy news night, with Fox News’s TUCKER CARLSON TONIGHT at 0.56/0.85/4.7M, CNN’s ANDERSON COOPER 360 at 0.48/0.69/2.7M, […]

  LAST WEEK TONIGHT WITH JOHN OLIVER:  Sunday 11PM on HBO John Oliver’s was one of the feel-good TV stories of 2013.  Pulled into duty as substitute host of The Daily Show when Jon Stewart took a 3-month break to direct his first feature film, longtime “Senior British Correspondent” Oliver was widely expected to do […]

Weekend #20 of 2015 is looking like $157 million for the top 12 films this weekend, very close to the norm for this weekend. Opening at around 3,400 theaters Friday (above the 2,886 average theater count for opening weekends the last two years), Pitch Perfect 2 from Universal should average a very good $15,600 per theater for the three-day weekend […]

> The night before Thanksgiving has an odd balance:  viewership is down, but advertiser interest is up (anyone who watched primetime last night was buried under retailer promos for Black Friday sales)–hence, original programming on a night that often sees season-low ratings. ABC:  The Alphabet was both the main recipient and victim of the odd […]

  Even a BIG BROTHER lead-in couldn’t help INSTINCT. 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 […]

>FOX is beginning to stabilize around a 5 rating on Wednesday night with American Idol.  CBS declined almost a full rating point from last week, but it had a good excuse: two-thirds of its line up was repeat programming.  And yet The Eye stayed in second place, above a 2 rating.  ABC also had a […]

    It wasn’t so long ago that the announcement of an epic period love story starring Nicole Kidman and Clive Owen as war correspondent Martha Gellhorn and legendary novelist Ernest Hemingway, directed by Philip Kaufman, the man behind The Right Stuff, The Unbearable Lightness of Being and Henry & June, premiering at the Cannes […]

The Independence Day holiday weekend will cause delays for daily national ratings (live+same day cable and broadcast) for several days.  This is how the ratings should roll out the next several days. We will update this schedule if anything changes.  (All times Pacific. Also, * denotes normal release time.) Wednesday July 3 nationals available Monday Jul 8 afternoon Thursday […]