FOX has announced some changes to its midseason line-up, mostly affecting Tuesdays. GLEE returns to Tuesdays 8PM on February 25, after airing its last Thursday episode sometime before January 16.  It leads into a single sitcom hour of NEW GIRL/BROOKLYN NINE-NINE.  THE MINDY PROJECT takes a long break following its January 28 episode, returning […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  After a rerun at 0.27, an ABC FALL PREVIEW promo special was at 0.21.  Following more reruns at 0.23/0.15, SPIRIT OF A NATION was at 0.11. CBS:  BIG BROTHER dipped 0.06 to 0.75, and the season finale of THE CHALLENGE was down 0.04 to 0.36. NBC:  PASSWORD was at 0.47, and […]

> NBC comes face-to-face with its post-football Sunday. NBC:  No doubt the network thought that whatever the quality of its new series version of John Grisham’s THE FIRM (and that quality is quite bad), name value alone would bring it an audience.  Well, not so much:  its disastrous 1.4 put it in last place for […]

WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD.  Here is an updated look at the 2018 film slates by studio. The studio totals also include 2019 dollars for films released in late 2018. We will continue to track the 2018 slates until late February, when we will switch to tracking the 2019 slates. BOX OFFICE. Looking at North American box office, […]

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday November 30 and Sunday December 1, 2013. (The 56 markets out of 210 total cover about 70% of the US television population.)   College Football Week 14: Top National Games Saturday Games 8.6 rating CBS 3:30 #1-Alabama at #4-Auburn […]

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 41: October 3-9, 2022 Broadcast News: Current Week Broadcast News: Same Week Last Year   Broadcast Late Night: Current […]

> It’s been a long, long time, but finally the prayers of MAD MEN fans are being answered:  at the Television Critics Association gathering today, AMC confirmed that the series will return at 9PM on Sunday March 25, with a 2-hour episode written by Genius Emeritus Matthew Weiner. The following Sunday, April 1, AMC brings […]

  The ratings trial of PROVEN INNOCENT didn’t begin well. 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). […]