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).  

  OPENINGS:  ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL (20th) squeezed everything it could out of its opening 2-holiday week, with paid preview screenings on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday nights (totaling $2.4M) preceding its official Thursday opening.  All-in, that put it at $36.5M through Sunday, which will probably become $41M with Monday.  It has two more or less open […]

>ABC won going away last night by being the only network in town with a schedule of original episodes.  CBS stayed in the game because their shows repeat at least decently, while FOX and NBC were basically off the air.  The biggest reversal of fortune last night was NBC, which went from a first-place tie […]

                NETWORK FINALS:  All stayed as-is from this morning’s preliminary numbers.     Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  The delayed Monday cable numbers offered few surprises.  As usual, VH1 and USA battled at the top of the chart. On VH1, LOVE & HIP-HOP […]

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday April 26 and Sunday April 27, 2014. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population.   NBA: Playoffs 2.3 rating TNT 2:00 pm Saturday Indiana Pacers at Atlanta Hawks Game 4 […]

  THE NIGHT SHIFT:  Tuesday 10PM on NBC – Change the Channel It’s as though NBC and series creators Jeff Judah and Gabe Sachs (they were among the showrunners of the 90210 reboot, and wrote the first Diary of a Wimpy Kid movie) deliberately set out to make the least distinctive series possible with THE NIGHT […]

  OLYMPICS ratings remained down, but took a step in the right direction. 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 […]

The Hobbit, like Breaking Dawn Part 2, is finally starting to peter out overseas (each around $550 million overseas and $800+ million worldwide).  Still growing briskly, Life of Pi has hauled in another $56 million overseas since last week’s report and is closing in on an impressive $500 million worldwide. Les Miserables was the second biggest American film overseas […]