The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday May 24 and Sunday May 25, 2014. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population.   NBA: Playoffs 4.9 rating ESPN 8:30 pm Saturday Indiana Pacers at Miami Heat Game 3 […]

  Note:  All times PST 5:01PM:  Wasting no time, here’s Ricky Gervais with his first monologue since the very different world of 2016.  5:02PM:  Not exactly testing the limits with jokes about “Wild Hogs” and Joe Pesci whacking people. 5:05PM:  The crowd hasn’t had enough to drink yet to even pretend this monologue is funny. […]

  Returns from midseason breaks continued. 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 […]

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 25: June 13-19, 2022 Broadcast News: Current Week Broadcast News: Same Week Last Year   Broadcast Late Night: Current […]

> Zooey Deschanel in FOX’s New Girl The second Tuesday of the new season was relatively surprise-free.  FOX’s New Girl established itself as the hit of the new season, and CBS turned in a reliable performance thanks to the NCIS pair, although Unforgettable looks shaky at best.  NBC and ABC are floundering thanks to aging […]

> SMASHWatch tries to convince itself that ratings are all that matter.  UPDATE:  AND MAYBE NOT THEM EITHER–SEE BELOW. NBC:  After last night’s dreadful SMASH–the first to have no connection at all to observable reality–deposed showrunner Theresa Rebeck (who wrote the episode) can’t leave the building soon enough.  But the show held on to its […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  ABC’s COLLEGE FOOTBALL game adjusted up 0.1 to 0.9, and FOX’s game adjusted up 0.3 to 3.6.  In another college football-related adjustment, the rerun of BULL lost 0.4 in final numbers.  The rerun DATELINE also dropped 0.1.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     […]

Weekend #13 of 2014 is looking like $122 million for the top 12 films, 14% below the typical volume for this weekend the past few years. Opening at around 3,400 theaters Friday (well above the 2,886 average theater count for opening weekends the last two years), Noah from Paramount should average $11,300 per theater for the weekend […]