Check out our looks at the NBC and FOX fall line-ups. ABC’s 2016-17 season was a tale of two genres.  On the comedy side, things were relatively smooth, with American Housewife and Speechless painlessly integrated into the Tuesday and Wednesday line-ups, and The Goldbergs functioning well as the Wednesday night opener.  Dramas, though, were a disaster. All the new 1-hours […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  The FOSTER FARMS BOWL stayed at 0.7 after adjustment, and the CAROL BURNETT 50TH ANNIVERSARY special gained 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  COLLEGE FOOTBALL dominated Wednesday cable, with ESPN’s tripleheader of bowl games at 0.96/0.92/0.57.  VH1’s […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  BIG BROTHER and THE $100,000 PYRAMID gained 0.1 in final numbers, while INSTINCT lost the same.  In addition, NBC’s NFL PRESEASON SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL adjusted up 0.2 to 1.5.          Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  It was a busy night on […]

  It’s a very good weekend to be a Weinstein.  First Weinstein Company’s The Master set new per-theatre records for a live-action movie release without a stage show, and now the tidings from Toronto are lined with gold: David O. Russell’s SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK, the studio’s romantic comedy-drama starring Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence and Robert […]

> As millions will be spending their holiday weekend watching marauding robots rip apart Chicago in TRANSFORMERS:  DARK OF THE MOON, it’s a fine time to salute some troubling machines of the past: 10.  HECTOR (Saturn 3 – 1980):  I’m not making this up:  in 1980, the director of Singin’ In the Rain made a […]

NOTE: Ratings for TRU on Sunday 3/21/21 are delayed. The chart below will be updated when those numbers become available. have been added (the Oral Roberts-Florida NCAA Basketball Tournament Second Round game).  Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday March 15 through Sunday March 21, 2021.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast […]

Broadcast news and late night series ratings available below for this week and the same week last year. You can also search for other available weeks with the link at the bottom of this post. Week 34: August 16-22, 2021 Broadcast News: Current Week Broadcast News: Same Week Last Year   Broadcast Late Night: Current […]

Based on Friday’s and Saturday’s grosses, weekend #31 of 2014 looks like $173 million for the top 12 films Friday-Sunday, well above our forecast ($150 million) and 33% above the norm for this weekend ($129 million). Opening at 4,080 theaters, Guardians of the Galaxy from Disney and Marvel grossed $37.7 million through Friday and $31.0 million Saturday, […]