The return of THE ORVILLE. 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 and comparisons […]

    NETWORK UPDATE:  DR KEN, REIGN and the rerun PENN & TELLER: FOOL US all lost 0.1 in final numbers.  (The CW results were the result of an adjustment for NBA basketball in Chicago.) Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Discovery’s GOLD RUSH was once again at the top of Friday […]

Thanks to the State of the Union Address, there was virtually no original programming on the broadcast networks last night. ABC:  You’d think things were set up perfectly for THE TASTE to overperform, with nothing but reruns against it in the pre-speech 8PM slot, but it only managed to tie CBS for the hour, falling […]

      ABC is glad last night happened after its Upfronts. ABC:  With the exception of THE MIDDLE, which stayed even (albeit at its season low 1.9), everything plunged:  SUBURGATORY‘s season finale down 0.3 to a new low 1.8, MODERN FAMILY down an ugly 0.5 to a season low 3.9, DON’T TRUST THE B___ […]

NETWORK UPDATE:  EMPIRE only got bigger with final numbers, increasing by 0.2 to 6.7.  In addition, SURVIVOR gained 0.1, as did MODERN FAMILY and SVU, but NASHVILLE declined the same amount. CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Comedy Central’s SOUTH PARK led the night, down 0.17 from last week’s season premiere to 0.87.  The 2d episode of MOONBEAM CITY […]

  DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary 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 and comparisons follow the chart. NBC:  The WINTER OLYMPICS […]

WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD.  Here is an updated look at the 2020 film slates by studios (films entering wide release in the 2020 calendar year). BOX OFFICE. Looking at North American box office, 2020 is now -2% below last year’s comparable span (7 points worse than last week) and -17% below this point averaged over the […]

  OSCARS UPDATE:  The shortfall for last night’s ACADEMY AWARDS presentation was even worse in time zone-adjusted numbers, with the ceremony only up to 10.8, down 2.3 points from 2014.  Although a lot of the fault has to do with the arthouse nature of the major nominees, it’ll be interesting to see if the Academy and […]