NETWORK FINALS:  SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL adjusted to 7.5, down 1.6 from the premiere Sunday game in 2017.  Elsewhere, REL had a 0.2 football adjustment up to 1.9, BIG BROTHER gained 0.1 in final numbers, while 60 MINUTES and the HAWAII 5-0 and FAMLY GUY reruns lost the same.        […]

      BELLFLOWER – Worth A Ticket:  A Uniquely Mashed-Up Vision     Watching BELLFLOWER, you keep thinking that it’s going to resolve itself into some categorizable genre.  Mumblecore romance, maybe, or low-budget apocalyptic action, or slacker comedy.  But while the film sips at all of those conventions, it has a striking, oddball originality […]

World Cup 2014 built more momentum over the weekend on ESPN, with the 5:30 pm matches on Saturday and Sunday the highest-rated contests so far on ESPN this year.  Further, even the lowest-rated ESPN match so far in 2014 is above the 2010 average for World Cup 2010. However, yesterday’s USA-Ghana match will certainly takeover […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  THE GOLDBERGS rose 0.08 to 0.67, THE WONDER YEARS climbed 0.06 to 0.50, THE CONNERS jumped a tenth to 0.56, and HOME ECONOMICS was up 0.09 to 0.38.  THE CHASE was up 0.06 to 0.33. CBS:  After a THE PRICE IS RIGHT AT NIGHT special at 0.61, THE AMAZING RACE fell […]

> Last night, viewers took a stand against the hatred of teenage daughters. FOX:  I HATE MY TEENAGE DAUGHTER, in its 2d airing (and first against new episodes on ABC) slumped to a 2.1 rating, losing more than a third of X FACTOR‘s lead-in 3.3.  The Teenage Daughter numbers may continue to be erratic, because […]

The 22nd weekend of the year is looking like a very good $186 million for the top 12 films, up 30% or more from the same weekend in previous years.    Opening at over 3,000 theaters Friday (a slightly above average theater count), After Earth from Sony and starring Will and Jaden Smith should average $12,100 […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  A full boat of NFL PRESEASON-fueled adjustments.  On ABC, the A MILLION LITTLE THINGS reruns dropped 0.1-0.3 in final numbers.  On CBS, the procedural reruns fell 0.3-0.4, and 48 HOURS was down 0.3.  On NBC, the rerun AMERICA’S GOT TALENT and DATELINE lost 0.1.  Both reruns on FOX dropped […]

> More repeats:  CBS could do this all season. CBS:  A sparkling 2.0 average, spearheaded by BIG BANG THEORY‘s 2.8–a number so good that if it were earned by a new episode on any other network, it would be enough to get that show renewed. ABC:  At least they aired HAPPY NEW YEAR, CHARLIE BROWN […]