A NASCAR overrun may have been the highest-rated show of the night. ABC:  ONCE UPON A TIME rose 0.2 from last week to 2.2, but it’s still hovering half a point below its season average.  REVENGE edged up 0.1 to 1.8 (down 0.4 from season average), and RED WIDOW bid adieu by climbing 0.2 […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  After adjustment for football preemption, THE GREAT XMAS LIGHT FIGHT, THE GOOD DOCTOR, THE VOICE and THE WALL all dropped 0.1.           Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  ESPN’s MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL had a good week, up 0.80 from last week’s game […]

  NOTE:  ALL RATINGS INCLUDE APPLICABLE ADJUSTMENTS. ABC:  The season finale of THE BACHELOR was at 2.8, up 0.4 from last week but down half a point from last year’s finale.  The AFTER THE FINAL ROSE post-show was at 2.7. NBC:  THE VOICE held very well against the increased competition on ABC, down just 0.1 […]

> As we head into the weekend, a margin of less than $10 million separates Team Metcalf and Salem in the ShowBuzzDaily Summer Movie Draft.  That’s very good news for Salem because he has X-Men: First Class and Super 8 opening before Metcalf’s next movie on June 17.  It’s actually a very interesting race because […]

  Preliminary box office numbers at Deadline give Friday, as expected, to CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2 (Sony), and it will easily win the weekend as well.  Its $10M opening day is above the original Cloudy in 2009 ($8.1M) but below last year’s Hotel Transylvania ($11M), and with a sequel’s usual frontloading, it’s […]

> To commemorate Green Lantern‘s arrival, 10 superhero movies that couldn’t fly: 10. WATCHMAN (2009):  Not a total disaster, but Zack Snyder’s failed epic earns its place by providing definitive proof that monk-like faithfulness in adapting a comic to the screen is doomed to failure:  endlessly long (more than 3 hours on DVD!), impenetrably plotted, […]

      Analysis to follow.       Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   Top 50 Original Cable Telecasts with Demographic Detail Top 150 Original Cable Telecasts To search for a show: type Ctrl-F and type your show title in the search box. Top 150 Original Cable Telecasts: Thursday July 22, 2021 P18-49 P2+ Rank […]

  The night’s sitcoms remained mostly low. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary live+same day 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 […]