BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  STATION 19 rose 0.09 to 0.53, GREY’S ANATOMY lost 0.03 to 0.46, and ALASKA DAILY was up 0.05 to 0.26. CBS:  YOUNG SHELDON ticked up to 0.56, GHOSTS gained 0.02 to 0.53, SO HELP ME TODD ticked up to 0.32, and CSI; VEGAS was down 0.02 to 0.28. NBC:  Returning from […]

>The second night of American Idol was down 28% from last year.  FOX still won the night, but suddenly CBS is nipping at its heels on this important night for advertisers.                Nightly Adult 18-49 Rating Thursday     FOX    CBS    ABC    NBC    01.19.2012   3.9 […]

  Deadline is reporting a preliminary opening day of around $75M (including $25M from Thursday night) for CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR (Marvel/Disney), and one has to wonder:  are audiences getting the teensiest bit tired of superhero spectacles?  That $75M is a giant number, of course–it blows away the $36.9M that Captain America: Winter Soldier earned […]

  What do Blue Is the Warmest Color and The Past have in common?  Two things, actually:  they’re both widely considered among the best foreign-language films shown in the US this year–and neither will be nominated for the Best Foreign-Language Film Oscar.  Blue was the victim of arcane Academy rules regarding its theatrical release date […]

Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday November 14 through Sunday November 20, 2022. 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. Here is the same week last year: […]

> Say goodnight, CHUCK. NBC:  Fittingly enough, Chuck bid adieu to the airwaves with a decent (season-high) but unremarkable 1.3 rating that didn’t win either hour but was in the hunt.  Creatively, too, the show stayed true to its vision of a grand romance masquerading as a sci-fi/spy thriller parody, silly but also unapologetically emotional.  […]

  NBC bid adieu for the season to its highest-rated show. NBC:  Despite speculation that the season’s finale of SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL would be a bust with Tony Romo out due to injury, the game turned out to be an edge-of-the-seat thriller, and with Dallas and Philadelphia in a win-or-go-home game, NBC had a huge […]

  OPENINGS:  VIOLENT NIGHT (Universal) slightly overperformed with $13.3M in the US, and with its $20M production budget, it may be headed for breakeven or perhaps moderate profit.  However, worldwide marketing costs are likely to add another $40M+ to that tally, and the thriller had much less appeal overseas, with $7.1M in 72 territories. The […]