HUGO:  Worth A Ticket – If Only For the Visual Splendors   Paramount doesn’t have much choice but to market Martin Scorsese’s HUGO as a family movie:  it’s got a PG rating, a young boy and girl as the hero and heroine, a children’s book (“The Invention of Hugo Cabret” by Brian Selznick) as […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  There were no changes from this morning’s preliminary numbers.       Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Because USA reports its WWE ratings in hour-long segments, Hour 1 took the night’s cable honors at 1.38, with the latter 2 hours at 1.31/1.26, compared to […]

You’ll see below that we’ve added a new feature to our Cable Originals chart:  some notable titles that don’t make the day’s Top 25 but are still worth attention.  We’re not going to be able to provide a voluminous list of these “extra” shows, but if you have any particular titles that you’d like us […]

Monday night’s Olympics coverage on NBC scored a solid 10.5 rating with Adults 18-49, just a tenth of a point off Beijing’s pace but well ahead of Athens and Sydney. FOX went with repeats of Hell’s Kitchen Monday, averaging a 1.1 rating and making it the second place broadcast network in the shadow of the Olympics.  CBS […]

  OPENINGS:  There are still several days before THOR: THE DARK WORLD (Disney) reaches these shores, and it hasn’t opened yet in other major countries like China or Japan, but it’s already looking like a blockbuster, with a huge $109.4M start in 36 territories.  The first Thor made a total of $268.3M internationally, so the […]

SEASON TO DATE through seven full weeks (46 nights of official ratings and 3 nights of adjusted fast nationals), NBC is averaging a 2.85 rating in prime time (up 23% from the same period last year). CBS is in second place with a 2.33 (down 20%). FOX is in third place with a 2.23 (down 30%). […]

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday July 19 and Sunday July 20, 2014. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population.   Golf: PGA British Open 1.3 rating ESPN 7:00 am Saturday 3rd Round (+8% from 1.2 […]

  The NFL returned, but with an asterisk. 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 comparisons […]