> WARNING:  If You Watch THE LEAGUE For Its Plot Revelations(?), Spoilers Below THE LEAGUE is no longer the best sitcom on TV that no one’s ever heard of.  The show has become consistently, increasingly popular, so much so that it’s no longer riding in the ratings on the coat-tails of its FX lead-in It’s […]

> SMASH, the ambitious musical drama that was intended from the start to be NBC’s new signature series (even if for some of us, it’s become a bit smudged) has officially been renewed for a 2d season. This was pretty much an inevitability.  Not only is a huge amount of the network’s struggle for renewed […]

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 22: May 23-29, 2022 Broadcast News: Current Week Broadcast News: Same Week Last Year   Broadcast Late Night: Current […]

Based on Friday’s and Saturday’s grosses, weekend #39 of 2014 looks like $99 million for the top 12 films Friday-Sunday, 5% above the norm for this weekend ($95 million) and just a shade under yesterday’s estimate ($100 million). Opening at 3,236 theaters, The Equalizer from Sony grossed $12.6 million Friday and $13.6 million Saturday, now […]

> One network dominated all of primetime last night… FOX:  …and it wasn’t FOX.  You can’t call TERRA NOVA a disaster–a 3.1 rating (slightly adjusted from Mitch Metcalf’s report) is a decent number these days, and the show did hold its audience solidly through all of the 2-hour premiere–but given the massive hype, not to […]

Based on Friday’s grosses, weekend #35 of 2015 looks like $63 million for the top 12 films Friday-Sunday, well below the norm for this weekend and reaching into record low territory (see track below). Opening at 1,135 theaters Friday, War Room from Sony is on track for a $10.5 million opening three-day weekend (double our $5.5 million ShowBuzzDaily forecast earlier […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  CELEBRITY WIFE SWAP gained 0.1 in final numbers. TUESDAY CABLE:  THE HAVES AND THE HAVE NOTS (OWN) and THE DEADLIEST CATCH (Discovery) were the highest-rated cable originals of the night at 1.0, steady for both.  RIZZOLI & ISLES (TNT) was down from that level last week to 0.86, while PERCEPTION held at […]

      NETWORK FINALS:  The season finale of THE CATCH only got lower in final numbers, down 0.1 to a dismal 0.8.  GAME OF SILENCE also fell 0.1.  BONES, however, gained 0.1.       Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Another day, another NBA PLAYOFFS win, this time for […]