> Friday numbers have been posted by the Hollywood Reporter, and it looks like another lousy Labor Day weekend for the new openings.  All the good news, as has been the case in recent weeks, is confined to THE HELP, which looks to be down only 20% or so from last Friday, and should do […]

Projected weekly network ratings in prime time (based on four days of official nationals and three days of fast nationals).  CBS and ABC were up int he most recent week, mostly because of Survivor‘s finale on CBS Sunday and ABC’s Saturday carrying an NBA playoff game. Adult 18-49 Prime Time Rating THIS WEEK Same Week […]

      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: Sunday May 30, 2021 P18-49 P2+ Rank […]

> It’s anyone’s guess why Francis Ford Coppola, at the age of 72, with some enduring cinema classics to his name, would decide to make a movie that’s a cross between a David Lynch retread, an old horror cheapie, and a hallucination.  What matters is that the resulting TWIXT is utterly dreadful, the worst film […]

Here are the weekend sports ratings for Saturday and Sunday May 26-27, 2018.  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, May 27-28, […]

The Labor Day holiday will cause delays for daily national ratings (cable and broadcast finals) this week.  This is how the week’s ratings should roll out after the holiday.  We will update these times if anything changes. Friday Sep 4 nationals rescheduled to Tuesday Sep 8 at 1 pm PT (normally Monday afternoon) Saturday Sep 5 nationals rescheduled […]

  With May sweeps/Upfront week ratings like last night’s, you have to feel sorry for the network Ad Sales departments. FOX:  A night of premieres and finales caused no excitement.  SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE premiered with a 1.9, down half a point from last year’s debut.  The season finales of NEW GIRL and […]

  BROADCAST FINALS: ABC:  BACHELOR IN PARADISE dropped 0.13 to 0.91, and ULTIMATE SURFER was down 0.04 to 0.30. CBS:  Reruns at 0.23-0.37. NBC:  AMERICAN NINJA WARRIOR climbed 0.09 to 0.54, and THE WALL was up 0.02 to 0.42. FOX:  HELL’S KITCHEN edged up 0.02 to 0.64.  It was followed by a pair of season […]