BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  BACHELOR IN PARADISE was at 0.56, down 0.09 from last Tuesday’s episode.  The season premiere of THE GOOD DOCTOR was at 0.39, down 0.02 from last season’s launch. CBS:  THE NEIGHBORHOOD gained 0.06 to 0.52, BOB HEARTS ABISHOLA climbed 0.05 to 0.44, NCIS was up 0.03 to 0.43, and NCIS: HAWAII […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  Reruns at 0.29/0.31/0.20. CBS:  The afternoon NFL PLAYOFFS game was at 7.55, but wasn’t a direct lead-in to 60 MINUTES, which fell 0.79 to 0.48.  EAST NEW YORK dropped 0.11 to 0.41, and NCIS: LA was down 0.03 to 0.34. NBC:  SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL was at 7.33, up 1.57 from last […]

>New Year’s week was a busy one for cable.  Just as the NFL (on ESPN Monday and NFL Network Thursday) leaves the stage, BCS college football steps in to take its place at the top of the weekly cable rankings.  The Rose Bowl (the “granddaddy of them all”) on ESPN was the top-rated cable program […]

> Three Muppets at a Rehearsal Thanksgiving weekend brings three well-reviewed family/ holiday entries and a mild expansion for a comedic-drama with Oscar hopes.  Total box office volume should be around $161 million for the three-day portion of the weekend, down about 6% from the same weekend last year when Tangled and Burlesque opened and […]

WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD.   YEAR TO DATE BOX OFFICE. Looking at North American box office, 2015 to date is still +6% above last year and still +2% above the average for this point the past four years ($7.173 billion).  Over the same period, Hollywood films have grossed just under $19.1 billion worldwide when we add overseas box office (that’s […]

  OPENINGS:  ANNABELLE COMES HOME (New Line/Warners) had a $20.3M weekend, but it had opened on Wednesday, so its 5-day total was $31.2M.  Even so, its 5 days were lower than the 3-day weekends for Annabelle ($37.1M) and Annabelle: Creation ($35M), and just a bit ahead of the Conjuring spin-off Curse of La Llorona ($26.3M) […]

  OPENINGS:  THE POSSESSION (Lionsgate) will be a convincing winner over the holiday weekend, based on a Friday that more than doubled the gross of the #2 movie.  Its $6.1M was also 2/3 better than last year’s Labor Day Friday #1, The Help (which was in its 4th week of release at that point).  Possession could […]

>On a night overshadowed by the BCS National Championship college football game on sister network ESPN (Alabama shutting out LSU — ratings available later), ABC decided to go with female-skewing originals, narrowly beating the other broadcast networks with a 2.2 Adult 18-49 rating.  The Bachelor was down two tenths of a rating point in its […]