BATTLEBOTS and SPARTAN crumbled. 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 analysis and comparisons follow the chart. […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL adjusted to 5.6, down 0.4 from last week’s game.  Elsewhere, THE SIMPSONS fell 0.5 after football adjustment, while BLESS THE HARTS, BOB’S BURGERS and 60 MINUTES lost 0.1.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  It’s a familiar story […]

Weekend #10 of 2015 is looking like $93 million for the top 12 films this weekend, significantly below the normal volume for this weekend (see track below). Opening at around 3,000 theaters Friday (slightly above the 2,886 average theater count for opening weekends the last two years), Chappie from Sony should average $7,300 per theater for […]

  BROADCAST FINALS:  ABC’s NHL PLAYOFFS game was at 0.49.  FOX’s MLB game was at 0.31.   Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  TNT’s NBA PLAYOFFS game was at 2.96.  On ESPN, FORMULA 1 was at 0.30, and COLLEGE SOFTBALL was at 0.22/0.15/0.14/0.12.  Fox Sports 1’s MLB game was at 0.11.  On […]

  The latest CBS drama pick-up for 2013-14 comes a bit out of left field:  RECKLESS, a legal soap about an illicit romance between a defense attorney (Cam Gigandet) and a prosecutor (Anna Wood) against the background of a police sex scandal.  This doesn’t just sound like an ABC show, it sounds like a specific […]

> The Golden Globes are given out by 80 international journalists whose opinions, when they’re not voting on these awards, are of no importance whatsoever to anyone on the planet other than their particular loved ones.  But the combination of a usually entertaining TV show (hosted again this year by Ricky Gervais) and enough years […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  FOX’s NASCAR race and NBC’s 9PM episode of THE WALL lost 0.1 in final numbers.          Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Adult Swim’s RICK & MORTY led Sunday scripted cable, down a tick to 0.67, with THE SHIVERING TRUTH down 0.02 […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  AMERICA’S GOT TALENT gained 0.1 in final numbers, and the rerun FBI lost the same.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  On a low-rated cable night, ID was unusually at the top with BRITTANY MURPHY: AN ID MYSTERY at 0.35, and […]