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 43: October 18-24, 2021 Broadcast News: Current Week Broadcast News: Same Week Last Year   Broadcast Late Night: Current […]

> The answer to the question “How low does a show’s ratings have to go on CW to get cancelled?” has been answered, as the network has axed reality series H8R, which was averaging an embarrassing 0.5.  They’ll use the timeslot, at least for now, to run repeats of RINGER, as the trend continues of […]

  The last time Halloween fell on a Saturday, in 2009, Hollywood mostly stayed away.  (The concert movie This Is It opened the previous Wednesday.)  This year, two studios tried to counterprogram the holiday with problematic star vehicles, and based on preliminary numbers at Deadline, the results weren’t pretty. BURNT (Weinstein) has been conspicuous for […]

  OPENINGS:  The $40M weekend estimate for THE HEAT (20th) makes more sense than it did last night, now that the movie’s Saturday is being reported as a 6% increase rather than a 5% drop.  (But always be suspicious of round-number estimates anyway.)  The Heat is going to be profitable, thanks to its $45M production budget, […]

  BROADCAST FINALS:  ABC’s COLLEGE FOOTBALL game led primetime at 0.70, but afternoon games at 1.17 (ABC)/0.90 (FOX) were higher.  NBC’s SNL was up 0.09 to 0.97.  CW’s originals were at 0.10/0.09.   Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  ESPN’s COLLEGE FOOTBALL games led the cable day at 0.98/0.57/0.44, with games on […]

> Baseball threw FOX–sorry–a curveball, but there was plenty of bad news for everyone last night. FOX:  Since the playoff game lasted until 8:52PM eastern time, it isn’t clear why FOX didn’t just fill in the 8 minutes left in the hour and go straight to House at 9PM.  But for whatever reason, they ran […]

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

  BROADCAST FINALS:  It was Conference Championship day in COLLEGE FOOTBALL, so ABC, CBS and FOX all featured games, topped by CBS’s SEC CHAMPIONSHIP at 3.62.    Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  With the big games on the broadcast networks, it was a low night on cable, with the highest college […]