CHRONICLE – Worth A Ticket –  “Found Footage” That Deserves to Be Found   Over the past decade, audience hunger for “reality”–the word very much in quotation marks–has engulfed much of popular cultture, from YouTube videos to self-produced songs, from tweets to television series and even cable networks built around people playing manipulated versions […]

>The second weekend of 2012 looks to be fairly anemic: $103 million for the top 12 films for the traditional three-day Friday-Sunday period.  This would be down 11% from the same weekend in 2011 and down 28% from the same weekend average for the past several years.  Basically, there is just not enough heat or […]

  It took ABCFamily long enough to pull the trigger–BUNHEADS aired its last episode in February–but the bullet has finally been fired into its airy, repartee-fueled head, as the network officially announced that Amy Sherman-Palladino’s series, beloved by far too few, isn’t coming back.  This can’t be called a surprise, since the show rarely had […]

  ABC’s game shows declined. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary live+same day 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 […]

Here are the weekend sports ratings for Saturday and Sunday July 7-8, 2018.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 300K P2+).  Programs are grouped by sport and ranked within each sport by P2+ audience size. For comparison, here is the same chart for the same weekend last year, July 8-9, […]

  FRIDAY STARZ:  Things got even worse for MAGIC CITY, with under 350K total viewers and an 18-49 number that had to be rounded up to reach 0.1.  It’s hard to imagine Starz ordering a third season, unless there are non-financial reasons. SYFY:  CONTINUUM was down 30% in total viewers to 1M, and down 0.1 […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  There were no changes from the preliminary Friday ratings.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  The day’s news was led by Fox News’s SPECIAL REPORT WITH BRET BAIER at 0.65/0.94/5.5M, with CNN’s SITUATION ROOM at 0.56/0.78/2.9M, and MSNBC’s RACHEL MADDOW SHOW […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  With a big 2.48 lead-in from an afternoon NBA PLAYOFFS game, AMERICA’S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS jumped 0.24 to 0.73, and AMERICAN IDOL was up 0.15 to 0.92.  A SUPERSTAR special was at 0.32.  CBS:  60 MINUTES dropped 0.06 to 0.42, THE EQUALIZER slipped 0.02 to 0.40, the series finale of EAST […]