Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday August 23 through Sunday August 29, 2021.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 200K Persons 2+ live+same day).  Programs are grouped by sport and ranked within each sport by P2+ audience size. Here is the same week two years […]

  The National Society of Film Critics is the only major group that withholds its honors until after year-end, and for the most part its choices today were as idiosyncratic as its scheduling.  With the exception of Best Actress to Cate Blanchett and Foreign Film to Blue Is The Warmest Color, the awards were off […]

          NETWORK FINALS:  Game 5 of the NBA FINALS adjusted up to 7.6 in final numbers (and the mini-JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE adjusted to 1.2).  Elsewhere, SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE gained 0.1, but both REIGN and the new WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY lost the same.         […]

  AMERICAN CRIME wasn’t quite up to Shondaland standards. 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 […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  ALL RISE gained 0.1 in final numbers, and BULL lost the same.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  On USA, WWE RAW was at 0.71/0.68/0.68 compared to last week’s 0.76/0.75/0.70, and BRIARPATCH was down 0.06 to 0.15.  On VH1, LOVE & […]

  NBC’s decision, announced today, to bring back its series HANNIBAL for a second season (probably again at midseason) provides some insight into how the network television business has changed, and will continue changing.  By any traditional ratings analysis, renewing Hannibal would seem as insane as one of its many darkly murderous characters:  although technically […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  ROOKIE BLUE narrowly avoided a new series low by finding an extra 0.1 in final numbers. THURSDAY CABLE:  Sports ruled the day and night.  As detailed in today’s WORLD CUP SKEDBALL report, the US vs. Germany match had a big 3.0 rating despite the 11AM Eastern start time of the telecast (and […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL adjusted to 5.0, up 0.1 from last week’s final.  In addition, after football adjustment, 60 MINUTES fell 0.8 to 2.0, and the season premiere of NCIS: LA dropped 0.2 to 0.8.  Elsewhere, WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE and THE SIMPSONS gained 0.1 in final numbers.  […]