The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday November 2 and Sunday November 3, 2013. (The 56 markets out of 210 total cover about 70% of the US television population.)   College Football Week 10 Top Games on Saturday 5.4 rating 8:00 ABC #7 Miami at […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  Reruns at 0.29/0.18/0.18/0.16/0.22. CBS:  BIG BROTHER was steady at 0.79, and THE CHALLENGE gained 0.04 to 0.42.  A SWAT rerun was at 0.20. NBC:  An off-night AMERICA’S GOT TALENT was at 0.54, and PASSWORD was at 0.46, down 0.02 from Tuesday’s premiere.  A CHICAGO PD rerun was at 0.25. FOX:  MASTERCHEF […]

> More repeats:  CBS could do this all season. CBS:  A sparkling 2.0 average, spearheaded by BIG BANG THEORY‘s 2.8–a number so good that if it were earned by a new episode on any other network, it would be enough to get that show renewed. ABC:  At least they aired HAPPY NEW YEAR, CHARLIE BROWN […]

WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD.  Updated look at 2016 by studio.   YEAR TO DATE BOX OFFICE. Looking at North American box office, 2016 to date is now +11% above last year and now +12% above the average for this point the past four years ($2.066 billion).  Over the same period, Hollywood films have grossed over $5.8 […]

  Michael Myers and Freddie Kreuger have nothing on THE KILLING, a series that seems to be perpetually death-defying.  After the 2-season search for the killer of Rosie Larsen, with a conclusion that seemed to satisfy no one, and then a third season that generated little excitement, AMC canceled The Killing… but it’s back.  Netflix […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  PRESS YOUR LUCK dipped 0.06 to 0.43, GENERATION GAP dropped 0.09 to 0.30, and THE CON was down 0.08 to 0.23. CBS:  BIG BROTHER slipped 0.03 to 0.76, sandwiched between reruns at 0.29/0.28/0.17. NBC:  Reruns at 0.20/0.22/0.19. FOX:  COLLEGE FOOTBALL at 0.82. CW:  BUMP gained 0.02 to 0.06, then after a […]

> After a hiatus so long that it seemed as though CW had found its own witchcraft to create more repeats of THE SECRET CIRCLE than there’d been original episodes to start, the series finally returned to original episodes. WHERE WE LEFT OFF:  The major revelation of the fall finale was that heroine Cassie (Britt […]

  RENT wasn’t particularly live in any respect. 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 […]