Cable Highlights:  In the morning’s overnight ratings, last night’s ESPY AWARDS on ESPN rose a healthy 0.3 from last year to a 1.9 household rating, giving host Jon Hamm a nice lead-in to this morning’s Emmy nomination for Best Drama Actor. But while last year the awards finished with a 1.2 adult 18-49 rating, this […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  After adjustment for local MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL preemptions, ABC’s BACHELOR IN PARADISE was up 0.1 from last week’s final to 1.2, and GRAND HOTEL was steady at 0.4.  Similarly, after football adjustment, NBC’s AMERICAN NINJA WARRIOR was steady at 0.8 and DATELINE was up 0.2 to 0.6.  At CBS, […]

  BEYOND THE TANK did what it was designed to do. 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). Ratings […]

  OPENINGS:  PARANORMAL ACTIVITY: THE MARKED ONES (Paramount) was an experiment in several ways–the first installment of the franchise to be a spin-off and not a direct sequel, the first released out of the Halloween season, and one of Hollywood’s first tries at producing and marketing a movie primarily to the Latino audience.  All of […]

> The days when cable networks cowered from the might of the broadcast networks’ promotional machines and stayed away from Fall premiere season are over, and FX today announced start dates for its own Fall shows, in the weeks immediately before and after the broadcast official premiere week of Sept 19-25.   Tuesday Sept 6:  SONS […]

We’ve reached the broadcast networks’ Upfront Week… which used to be a lot more central to our television lives than it is now.  Ratings everywhere are down, and there’s no reason to think they’ve hit bottom, which has caused seismic changes in the ways networks make scheduling decisions.  Among other things, with revenues from on-air […]

> Welcome to April:  pilots are being produced and prepared for executive screenings, all but a very few of the 2011/12 series have aired, and we’re only 6 weeks away from the hoopla of the network Upfronts and their attendant announcement of next season’s Fall TV schedules.  Mitch Metcalf and I sat down with veteran […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  There was a significant adjustment (to the next tenth) for WWE SMACKDOWN.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  ESPN’s NBA doubleheader was at 0.49/0.35.  Discovery’s GOLD RUSH was at 0.42/0.34/0.24 compared to last week’s 0.41/0.27.  Cable news was led by the […]