>NBC finished the week and began the year with a terrific finale for Sunday Night Football, the Dallas Cowboys at New York Giants, a quasi-playoff game with the winner (the Giants) taking the NFC East title and a ticket to the playoffs.  The game’s prime time portion averaged a preliminary 8.7 rating with Adults 18-49 […]

  The last night for a while that won’t be owned by NBC. 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 […]

  OPENINGS:  It’s official:  THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY PART I (Lionsgate) opened to $123M in the US, down 20% from the first Hunger Games and down 23% from Catching Fire.  That’s still the #1 opening of the year by 23% (beating Transformers: Age of Extinction), and the 15th biggest opening ever, but there’s no way […]

> Last night’s slight ratings increase wasn’t enough to save CHARLIE’S ANGELS, which has just been cancelled by ABC.  That leaves Pan Am as the only remaining ABC show launched in September (Last Man Standing, Man Up and Once Upon A Time are just getting started) not to know its fate. 4 of the 8 […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  AMERICAN NINJA WARRIOR gained 0.1 in final numbers, but THE ISLAND lost the same.  CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  It was a big night for sports on cable, but above them all was VH1’s LOVE & HIP-HOP ATLANTA, up 0.11 from last week to 1.41.  Its lead-out AFTERPARTY slipped 0.08 to 0.97, and TI AND TINY […]

The 8th weekend of 2013 looks like another down weekend: $95 million for the top 12 films Friday-Sunday, down 16% from the same weekend last year.  Two more movies will open this weekend, both with little potential. Opening in about 2,500 theaters Friday, Snitch from Summit and starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson should average a perfectly […]

  SURVIVOR took a dip. 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 the chart. […]

  BROADCAST FINALS:  ABC aired a PARTY AT THE PALACE special at 0.29.  NBC’s TRANSPLANT dropped 0.03 to 0.09.  FOX’s MLB game was at 0.24.  CW’s originals were at 0.05/0.05.    Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  TNT’s NHL PLAYOFFS game was at 0.64.  On ESPN, BOXING was at 0.32, and the […]