The hills were not alive last night. NBC:  The night before Thanksgiving is traditionally an extremely slow one for TV viewing, and networks don’t typically air hour-long infomercials for their own upcoming programming, so it’s certainly premature for NBC to panic about the 1.0 for last night’s THE MAKING OF “THE SOUND OF MUSIC […]

Even without The Voice as an excuse, most networks headed downward. FOX:  AMERICAN IDOL continued to plunge, down half a ratings point to 3.1, which happens to be just 0.1 ahead of X Factor’s average last fall. ABC:  Three of the night’s shows returned with their first fresh episodes in a month, and as is increasingly the case, the long […]

The Thanksgiving holiday weekend will cause delays for daily national ratings (cable and broadcast finals) for several days.  This is how the ratings should roll out throughout the week.  We will update these times if anything changes. Wednesday Nov 25 nationals rescheduled to Monday Nov 30 at 1 pm PT (normally Thursday afternoon) Thursday Nov 26 nationals rescheduled […]

Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday April 19 through Sunday April 25, 2021.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 200K Persons 2+ live+same day).  Programs are grouped by sport and ranked within each sport by P2+ audience size. For comparison we are setting aside this […]

Broadcast news and late night series ratings available below for this week and the same week last year. You can also search for other available weeks with the link at the bottom of this post. Week 34: August 16-22, 2021 Broadcast News: Current Week Broadcast News: Same Week Last Year   Broadcast Late Night: Current […]

> Live by Cinemascore, die by Cinemascore. THE DEVIL INSIDE:  The most hilarious studio event of the last 24 hours has been Paramount‘s frantic attempt to argue that an “F” Cinemascore for THE DEVIL INSIDE, making it one of the half-dozen worst exit-polled movies of the past several years, isn’t really that bad if you […]

International box office for 2013 releases through January 26, 2014.  Frozen has edged past The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug in the yearly worldwide rankings, and down around the #40 position, American Hustle and The Wolf of Wall Street are locked in a tight battle around the world. Click here for a summary of worldwide performance by studio. We will start tracking […]

A very quiet week on broadcast and cable, as usual for the week featuring Independence Day.