BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  After reruns at 0.29/0.53, COLLEGE FOOTBALL was at 1.90. CBS:  BIG BROTHER was hit hard by the sports competition, down 0.26 to 0.54.  Reruns took up the rest of the night at 0.31/0.18/0.17. NBC:  Reruns at 0.26/0.28/0.22 FOX:  FIGHT NIGHT at 0.11 was followed by reruns at 0.12/0.16. CW:  Reruns at […]

  No authoritative boxoffice figures will be available until Sunday or Monday, as the studios would prefer that they not be associated with financial issues this weekend.   Although–properly–the focus of the stories on the senseless tragedy in Colorado has been on the madman who committed the actions, the studios are in a somewhat precarious position […]

          NETWORK FINALS:  NBC’s NFL game adjusted to 6.6.  In addition, after adjustment for FOX’s late afternoon game, MASTERCHEF JR adjusted down 0.2 to 1.7.       Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  On a sports- and rerun-heavy holiday, the top show on Thanksgiving cable was Hallmark’s […]

  A messy awards season became even messier with the results of today’s critics group awards. The big prize of the day was the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, which… tied.  Full results are here, but Best Picture went both to Gravity and Her, as different a pair of science-fiction stories as one can imagine.  […]

  CW’s new summer Thursday didn’t cause any excitement. 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 […]

  OPENINGS:  Following several months of strong showings from the horror genre, PREY FOR THE DEVIL (Lionsgate) arrived at $7M to mop up the Halloween weekend remainder.  That was around the expected result, and considering that Prey was a low-budget effort with little national marketing, it might be enough to set a pace for minimal […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  BIG BROTHER gained 0.1 in final numbers.  (Footnote:  after EXTANT sets its series low 0.6 this morning, CBS announced that beginning next week, it will move to 9PM with BIG BROTHER as its lead-in, rather than following a CRIMINAL MINDS rerun.)  MASTERCHEF also received an 0.1 bump, as did the rerun of SUPERNATURAL. CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:   A&E’s […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  DANCING WITH THE STARS lost 0.04 to 0.67.  THE GOOD DOCTOR, returning from an off-week, was down 0.05 to 0.38. CBS:  Reruns at 0.49/0.39/0.34/0.24. NBC:  THE VOICE gained 0.05 to 0.81.  ORDINARY JOE returned from a week off up 0.02 to 0.27. FOX:  9-1-1 dropped 0.05 to 0.67, and THE BIG […]