> See A Word About Busted Pilots IDENTITY is so clearly a Jerry-Bruckheimer-for-CBS procedural that it comes as a shock to realize that it was neither produced by Bruckheimer nor developed for CBS.  In fact, Mark Gordon’s company produced the show for ABC Studios and the ABC network, which must have remembered at some point […]

  Franchises are the lifeblood of Hollywood, so it has to chill studios to see three of those entries falter in a single 2-weekend period, especially since the stakes are higher for this week’s arrivals than last week’s Neighbors 2. Based on the preliminary $27M Friday number at Deadline, X-MEN: APOCALYPSE (TSG/20th) is running almost […]

  The newly-grown linear audience made THE MASKED SINGER even bigger. 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 […]

> Tonight is critical for 3 of the broadcast networks:  FOX will launch its major scripted gamble of the season, the big-budget TERRA NOVA; the CW will find out if GOSSIP GIRL still has enough of a pulse to launch the very different (other than having Josh Schwartz as Executive Producer) HART OF DIXIE; and […]

  STAR-CROSSED:  Monday 8PM on CW – Change the Channel If aliens are in high school, we must be on CW.  The network’s midseason entry STAR-CROSSED plays as a clip reel of CW’s greatest hits, from the supernatural teen romance of The Vampire Diaries to the forbidden love of Beauty and the Beast to the […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  STATION 19 dipped 0.03 to 0.46, and GREY’S ANATOMY was down 0.09 to 0.40.  ALASKA DAILY aired for the first time since November 17, up 0.02 to 0.22. CBS:  Returning from a rerun week, YOUNG SHELDON edged up 0.02 to 0.63, GHOSTS dipped 0.04 to 0.54, SO HELP ME TODD  (back […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  There were no changes from the preliminary Wednesday ratings.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Although FX’s AMERICAN CRIME STORY: THE ASSASSINATION OF GIANNI VERSACE led Wednesday cable, its 0.72 was a shadow of the 1.96 premiere for THE PEOPLE VS OJ […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  ABC benefited most from the adjusted ratings for Monday night, with both DANCING WITH THE STARS and the preview of FOREVER gaining 0.2.  The 8PM episode of THE BIG BANG THEORY found an extra 0.1 (unlike last year, when BIG BANG’s season premiere jumped up in final numbers), but SCORPION lost 0.1, as […]