>As the (relatively) highly-rated singing competition shows head toward their season finales, it is time to take a broader view of the full season ratings tracks for FOX’s American Idol and NBC’s The Voice.  The chart below provides the episode ratings for the main performance episodes on Monday for The Voice and Wednesday for Idol.  […]

  Thursdays are going to look very different next season, so let’s jump right into our very early fall ratings predictions.  We’ve already taken a look at Monday,  Tuesday, and Wednesday, and as before, our predictions cover the September 22-December 7 period when all the networks are running fresh episodes of just about all their […]

> CBS won the first Monday of the May Sweep — not so much because it had an exceptional night but because NBC Monday continues to trend down as The Voice wheezes to the finish line.  See how Monday night’s ratings affected the May Sweep standings to date here.               […]

New FilmsMay 18-20 Misc Rating CriticsPositive Opening Weekend DomesticTotal Battleship Uni PG13 43% $42.5M $105M The Dictator Par R 66% $18.2M $75M What to Expect when You’re Expecting LG PG13 29% $18.0M $60M     New FilmsMay 18-20 Misc Rating CriticsPositive Opening Weekend DomesticTotal Battleship Uni PG13 43% $42.5M $105M The Dictator Par R 66% $18.2M […]

  There don’t appear to be many surprises in the Friday box office numbers, based on preliminary estimates at Deadline.  As usual, ticket sales declined on Thanksgiving itself (particularly for family movies), then surged on Friday, and the results were largely in line with Wednesday’s form. MOANA (Disney Animation) wasn’t able to keep up its […]

  22 JUMP STREET (Sony/Columbia) is having the start merited by a sequel to a huge hit that’s getting ecstatic reviews in its own right.  Based on preliminary numbers at Dateline and elsewhere, it had a $23-24M opening day (that includes $5.5M from Thursday night).  That’s considerably better than the $19.6M start for Neighbors, which […]

      Sometimes a win can also be a disappointment. FOX:  AMERICAN IDOL was the highest rated show on the air last night, and gave FOX the nightly win.  But… its 4.4 was a series Wednesday low, down 0.3 from last week at exactly the point in the season where it should be climbing […]

Friday’s matches on ESPN did just okay ratings.  Nothing spectacular for 2014 (the three matches ranking #17, #18 and #20 out of 26 through Friday) but still better than 2010.  The ratings you all really want to see (the demographics from Sunday’s USA match versus Portugal) will be available early tomorrow (Tuesday) morning. If you are […]