ABC is in need of a lot of help next season, and it’s ordered a ton of product for its shelves, with 5 new comedies and 7 dramas on tap.  (The network also renewed The Neighbors, Nashville and Suburgatory among the bubble shows, while canceling How to Live With Your Family, Happy Endings, Body […]

  Dips for THE BACHELORETTE and THE VOICE. 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 […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  A rerun AMERICA’S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS was at 0.41.  AMERICAN IDOL crashed by three-tenths to 0.65.  A STEP INTO THE MOVIES special was at 0.34. CBS:  With a big NCAA TOURNAMENT lead-in, 60 MINUTES jumped 0.31 to 1.04.  THE EQUALIZER gained 0.03 to 0.65, NCIS: LA rose 0.09 to 0.53, and […]

  BROADCAST FINALS:  Primetime was led by ABC’s NBA game at 0.75, although the highest-rated programming of the day was CBS’s afternoon COLLEGE FOOTBALL game at 1.31.  The first fresh episode of NBC’s SNL in several weeks was at 0.96.    Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  ESPN’s telecast of the HEISMAN […]

  AFTERNOON UPDATE:  No major changes, as THE BACHELOR and the CBS 9-10PM shows each found an extra 0.1 (keep the latter two off their lows), while SUPERNATURAL shed the same amount. TUESDAY CABLE:  The season finale of BEING MARY JANE (BET) hit a new series high with 1.6 in its 2d hour (up 0.2 […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  THE GOLDBERGS ticked up to 0.57, THE WONDER YEARS dropped 0.05 to 0.33, THE CONNERS slipped 0.02 to 0.46, and HOME ECONOMICS was down 0.08 to 0.25.  A MILLION LITTLE THINGS fell 0.07 to 0.21. CBS:  The season finale of THE AMAZING RACE was at 0.66, up 0.12 from last week […]

WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD.     YEAR TO DATE BOX OFFICE. Looking at North American box office, 2015 to date is still +6% above last year and now +2% above the average for this point the past four years ($6.510 billion).  Over the same period, Hollywood films have grossed almost $17.3 billion worldwide when we add overseas box […]

  OPENINGS:  AS ABOVE/SO BELOW (Universal) and THE NOVEMBER MAN (Relativity) are both quietly making their way to oblivion with $8.3 and $7.7M weekends (each may add $1.5-2M on Monday).  November Man, with its older audience, may hold up a bit better over the longish term, but neither picture is likely to get above $25M in […]