NETWORK FINALS:  ABC’s COLLEGE FOOTBALL game adjusted to 0.5, and CBS’s game adjusted to 2.5.  In addition, the rerun of THE MASKED SINGER gained 0.1 in final numbers, and the reruns of WEAKEST LINK and ELLEN’S GAME OF GAMES lost the same.          Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings […]

  Everyone knows that the Super Bowl is by far the highest rated show of each season, but what does it mean for a network’s big picture?  Here were the season-to-date averages for the broadcast networks as of a week ago: NBC:  2.47 FOX:  2.11 CBS:  2.07 ABC:  1.67 CW:   0.54 And here are the […]

  OPENINGS:  THE EXORCIST: BELIEVER (Blumhouse/Morgan Creek/Universal) was at the low end of expectations with $27.2M, and it was also below projections internationally with $17.9M in 52 markets.  It’s hard to tell just what this means in terms of the bottom line, because while a $125M worldwide total wouldn’t look terrible against $30M in production […]

>Based on Friday and Saturday box office (and estimated Sunday numbers), Captain America opens at #1 this weekend with almost $66 million, a slightly higher estimate than we had yesterday.  Friends with Benefits opens at #3 with $18.5 million.  Declining an eye-popping 72%, the final Harry Potter slide to #2 with $48 million.     The ShowbuzzDaily […]

  MONTE CARLO:  Watch It At Home – The Usual Tourist Stops   Beware the credit “Screen Story by.”  It means that whatever the original source material for a movie may have been, it’s essentially been abandoned, looted for a single story element that’s now attached to an entirely different script.  In the case of […]

  FOX:  The debut of FOX’s regular Friday night line-up didn’t go very well.  The costs of a Friday move were high for BONES, which plunged 0.8 from this past Monday to a new low 1.2, also down 0.3 from last week’s MasterChef Jr in that slot.  It was only able to edge past NBC […]

      NETWORK FINALS:  Note that because the ABC town hall special THE PRESIDENT AND THE PEOPLE ran without commercials, it wasn’t counted in Nielsen’s final numbers for Thursday. Elsewhere, BONES and SPARTAN each rose 0.1, while AQUARIUS and the LIFE IN PIECES rerun were each down the same.         Broadcast […]

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). PREVIOUS SATURDAY NETWORK SCORECARDS (FAST NATIONALS) PREVIOUS SATURDAY CABLE & […]