NBC’s early pick-up spree continued late today with orders for 2 more sitcoms in addition to the previously ordered Go On, Save Me and The New Normal. The more high-concept entry is 1600 PENN, a single camera family comedy from 20th Television whose twist is that the main characters are the First […]

WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD.  Year to date, Warner Brothers has moved well ahead of its competing studios, thanks to two bona fide hits to balance two strikeouts.  Sony and Universal, the next level down each with around $450 million worldwide to date, has a similar hit and miss ratio to Warner Brothers, but the hits are […]

Here are the weekend sports ratings for Saturday and Sunday December 23-24, 2017.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 300K P2+).  Programs are grouped by sport and ranked within each sport by P2+ audience size. For comparison, here is the same chart for the same weekend last year, December 24-25, […]

NETWORK UPDATE:  SHARK TANK gained 0.1 in final numbers, as did THE AMAZING RACE and the 2d hour of the HAWAII 5-0 season finale.  CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  ESPN’s NBA PLAYOFFS doubleheader crushed Friday cable at 2.22/2.12, with NBC Sports Net’s NHL PLAYOFFS way behind at 0.55/0.35.  In between was Adult Swim’s CHILDRENS HOSPITAL, up 0.04 to […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  A marathon of BLACK-ISH reruns at 0.19-0.34. CBS:  Reruns at 0.38/0.31/0.32. NBC:  Reruns at 0.26/0.18/0.18/0.13. FOX:  A MASKED SINGER rerun at 0.24. CW:  Reruns at 0.07/0.08/0.07.   Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   CABLE HIGHIGHTS:  ESPN’s COLLEGE FOOTBALL bowl games commanded the day and night at 0.90/0.56/0.55/0.48.  Food Network’s CHOPPED […]

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). ###

  NOTE:  This Post Has Been Updated With Actual Studio Estimates Typically Independence Day itself is a relatively quiet day for moviegoing, because audiences have other things to do, and DESPICABLE ME 2 (Universal) fell 29% from Wednesday to a still-big $24.5M.  That was the 7th-highest Thursday box office ever (and the 2d-highest for movies […]

  We’re 3 days into the 18 of the WINTER OLYMPICS, and the games are already paying ratings dividends for NBC.  (However, it’s critical to note that the Olympics are like the NFL, only more so:  the rights and production costs are so massively expensive that high ratings don’t necessarily mean profits–and even slight underperformance […]