> Did PARENTHOOD buy itself another season? NBC:  Creatively, PARENTHOOD‘s season finale wasn’t the show at its best (too many storyline conclusions crammed into too little time).  But its 1.9 rating built on last week’s increase, and “tied for 1st place” isn’t a phrase NBC gets to hear very often these days in reference to […]

Life of Pi is gathering a lot of momentum overseas, with $45 million more internationally (bringing its overseas tally to $106 million to date).   Worldwide, the film is sitting at $188 million and 17th on our chart.  It could keep climbing to over $200 million, bringing it to 15th or maybe 14th on the chart. […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  AMERICA’S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS rose 0.16 to 0.65.  The season premiere of AMERICAN IDOL was at 0.93, down 0.24 from the 2021 premiere.  THE ROOKIE aired for the first time since January 30 and rose 0.11 to 0.44. CBS:  60 MINUTES gained 0.16 to 0.68.  The line-up aired for the first […]

  TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY:  Worth A Ticket – An Epic of Betrayals   John LeCarre is (I guess one should say “arguably”) the greatest of all spy novelists, and his 1974 TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY is “arguably” his finest work.  Incredibly, the 1979 BBC miniseries adaptation lived up to the level of the novel, […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  The series finale of THE BIG BANG THEORY and PARADISE HOTEL gained 0.1 in final numbers, while the season finale of YOUNG SHELDON, the UNRAVELING THE MYSTERY special and the FOR THE PEOPLE series finale lost 0.1.           Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     […]

  BROADCAST FINALS:  ABC’s NBA game was at 0.59.  FOX’s WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC coverage was at 0.40.  CW’s MASTERS OF ILLUSION and WORLD’S FUNNIEST ANIMALS ticked up to 0.05/0.05.  In late night, NBC’s SNL ticked down to 0.75.   Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  ESPN’s COLLEGE BASKETBALL coverage was at 0.74/0.62/0.47/0.39/0.27.  […]

>A pretty typical week on cable in prime time, with ESPN’s Monday Night Football leading the way (Green Bay Packers thumping the Minnesota Vikings).   On the scripted front, AMC’s Walking Dead is ahead by a mile.  The program’s lead-out, Hell on Wheels, dropped a big four tenths of a rating point, from a 1.9 […]

      NETWORK FINALS:  THE BIG BANG THEORY gained 0.2 in final numbers, with the rest of the CBS line-up remaining as-is.  NBC also remained at the morning numbers, but it’s worth noting that in quarter-hour ratings, THE GOOD PLACE fell from 2.8 to 1.9 in the course of its hour, not a sign […]