OPENINGS:  THE WOMAN KING (TriStar/Sony) launched at the higher end of expectations with $19M, boosted by strong reviews (94% on Rotten Tomatoes) and enthusiastic audience response as measured by exit polls.  In the current market, with few openings arriving each week (and even fewer for Woman King‘s older female target demo), the film should […]

>ABC’s Work It is sinking fast (and Last Man Standing is struggling, as well), while the CBS Tuesday schedule continues to chug along and NBC’s line up ages toward irrelevance.               Nightly Adult 18-49 Rating Tuesday      CBS    NBC    ABC    FOX01.10.2012   3.2    2.1    1.9    1.101.11.2011   3.5    2.9    1.5    1.7 […]

  Last night, the hills were, without a doubt, alive. NBC:  What’s on the drawing board this morning at NBC?  Hello, Dolly with Miley Cyrus?  Kanye West in Fiddler On the Roof?  Katy Perry as Mame?  Sweeney Todd with Eminem and Taylor Swift as the serial-killing cannibals?  (Actually, that one…)  In what has to be […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  SHARK TANK gained 0.04 to 0.51, and 20/20 was up 0.04 to 0.36. CBS:  SWAT rose 0.05 to 0.43, FIRE COUNTRY had a promising Week 2 0.08 bump to 0.48, and BLUE BLOODS was up 0.02 to 0.43. NBC:  COLLEGE BOWL ticked down to 0.20, and DATELINE also lost a tick […]

> Previously… On ALCATRAZ:  San Francisco cop Rebecca Madsen (Sarah Jones), whose partner was recently killed, finds herself embroiled in a mysterious case in which an Alcatraz inmate from 40 years ago, apparently long dead, has turned up not having aged a day and committing new murders.  Rebecca learns that all the Alcatraz prisoners who […]

  Some small shifts. 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). Ratings analysis and comparisons follow the […]

Updated worldwide box office chart for 2013 North American films.  Also, click here for a summary of worldwide performance by studio.

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  Returning from a preemption, AMERICA’S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS was at 0.47.  CELEBRITY JEOPARDY gained 0.04 to 0.38, CELEBRITY WHEEL OF FORTUNE was also up 0.04 to 0.38, and THE ROOKIE climbed 0.03 to 0.31. CBS:  The network had the late national NFL game for the first time since October 16, and […]