Thursday ratings last night, last year and last week.  CBS and ABC ratings subject to significant change (up to 0.4 rating point) due to pre-emptions in New York (WCBS) and Boston (WCVB ABC) for the Jets-Patriots game aired nationally on NFL Network.  A tough night for The X Factor (up only one tenth from yesterday’s […]

Some people actually watched network TV last night. NBC:  US OLYMPIC TRIALS were 3rd place in their hour again, despite a Michael Phelps swimming showdown (which he lost).  However, AMERICA’S GOT TALENT and AMERICAN NINJA WARRIOR had strong nights, each winning its hour with a 3.0 and 2.0 respectively, and that gave NBC a tie […]

> Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides opens huge overseas, almost topping Fast Five in its first weekend.    The table below shows the domestic and international grosses for the Top 25 films (out of the 47 movies released between January and April at over 500 theaters).  Fast Five is still the #1 film worldwide released between January and […]

NOTE: CBS and NBC time-period ratings below are inflated about a tenth of a point by local broadcast pre-emptions for THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL (aired nationally on the NFL Network). WKRC in Cincinnati carried the game instead of the CBS schedule, and WBAL in Baltimore carried the game instead of the NBC schedule. Also, the ratings […]

Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday September 2 through Sunday September 8, 2019.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 300K P2+ live+same day).  Programs are grouped by sport and ranked within each sport by P2+ audience size. For comparison, here is the similar chart for the same […]

      NETWORK FINALS:  AMERICA’S GOT TALENT and the new WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY gained 0.1 in final numbers, while coverage of the REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION went down 0.2 at NBC and up 0.1 at CBS.       Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  FOX News feasted on […]

      NETWORK FINALS:  SWAT gained 0.1 in final numbers.  In addition, THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL adjusted to 6.4.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Note that due to Thanksgiving, all comparisons except where otherwise noted are to 2 weeks ago.  NFL Network’s share of THURSDAY NIGHT […]

> See A Word About Busted Pilots FAMILY ALBUM was one of the more buzzed-about FOX pilots of this past development season, and although it’s not on the network’s announced schedule, Deadline reports that it’s in contention for midseason and will even shoot a second prototype episode.  So this isn’t so much a postmortem as […]