BROADCAST FINALS:  On a sports-heavy Saturday, ABC’s STANLEY CUP FINALS was at 1.11, NBC’s US OPEN coverage was at 0.53/0.53, and FOX’s MLB game was at 0.19.  NBC’s TRANSPLANT continued to burn off at 0.20.  CW’s originals were at 0.05/0.03. Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  On ESPN, TOP RANK BOXING […]

  OPENINGS:  Amazingly, the 58% first weekend plunge from $96.2M for 2019’s Joker to $40M for JOKER: FOLIE A DEUX (DC/Warners) understates how much audiences hated the new film.  For that, you have to look to the respective Friday-to-Saturday drops, after word of mouth had a chance to set in:  44% compared to 18%, which […]

  Wrestling easily took the night. 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 follows the […]

>   THE DESCENDANTS:  Worth A Ticket – Flawed But Heartfelt It’s taken an unaccountable 7 years for Alexander Payne to follow up Sideways, the biggest hit of his career,  with THE DESCENDANTS, which will hit theatres in time for a serious awards season push in late November.  Sideways and Payne’s earlier Election are two […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  SHARK TANK gained 0.1 in final Friday ratings, and BLUE BLOODS dropped 0.1. Ratings in key demos for the Top 25 original cable telecasts (plus a few other lower-rated but noteworthy programs): GOLD RUSH (Discovery) jumped up two-tenths from last week to lead Friday cable at 1.27, and its lead-out EDGE OF […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  DANCING WITH THE STARS ticked down to 0.70, and THE GOOD DOCTOR was up 0.02 to 0.43. CBS:  Returning from a rerun week, THE NEIGHBORHOOD slipped 0.02 to 0.65, and BOB HEARTS ABISHOLA was steady at 0.53.  NCIS was down 0.03 to 0.59, and NCIS: HAWAII held at 0.48.  NBC:  THE […]

  NBC’s exit from the Thursday scripted pool gave it an upgrade. 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). […]

  Whatever Undercover Boss did last night, it should do that again. CBS:  On a mostly quiet network night, UNDERCOVER BOSS zoomed by half a ratings point to 1.8–not quite the biggest show of the evening, but close.  The rest of the line-up didn’t fare as well, as both HAWAII 5-0 and BLUE BLOODS slipped […]