WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD.   YEAR TO DATE BOX OFFICE. Looking at North American box office, 2015 to date is still +6% above last year and still +2% above the average for this point the past four years ($7.296 billion).  Over the same period, Hollywood films have grossed over $19.4 billion worldwide when we add overseas box office (that’s still […]

  First, our abject apologies.  We were working from inaccurate ratings numbers this morning when this was first posted, and consequently our charts were off.  We’ll try to make sure that doesn’t happen again.  Here were last night’s real results: NBC:  A post-tornado Oklahoma City benefit concert HEALING IN THE HEARTLAND was less than an […]

  BROADCAST FINALS:  ABC’s COLLEGE FOOTBALL game dominated the night at 2.39, while Fox’s game was at 0.90.       Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  It was COLLEGE FOOTBALL at the top again, with ESPN’s COLLEGE GAME DAY at 0.55 and the network’s games at 0.52/0.33/0.23.  Adult Swim’s line-up […]

> A lot can happen between the creation of a TV pilot in the spring and production of episodes for the regular season:  a writing/producing team is hired, audience focus groups weigh in, networks and studios (which may have had their own turnover in the off-season) give plenty of notes, both helpful and otherwise, and […]

  Unlike last Saturday, when the Notre Dame game was dominant, last night’s ABC and FOX games were close in appeal, with ABC at a preliminary 1.0 and FOX at 0.8.  NBC had NASCAR at 0.4, and CBS followed 0.4/0.6 reruns with 48 HOURS at 0.7. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the […]

  OPENINGS:  Not to throw any cold water on the extremely impressive performance of THE PURGE (Universal), but it’s unlikely that the thriller will slip only 12% on Sunday, as Universal is forecasting, when the next-lowest Sunday estimate in the Top 10 is almost double that.  (The idea seems to be that after a 38% […]

  BROADCAST FINALS: ABC:  A 3-hour BACHELOR IN PARADISE was down a tenth to 0.77 compared to last week’s 2-hour episode. CBS:  FBI dipped 0.04 to 0.68, FBI INTERNATIONAL switched into the 9PM slot and lost 0.07 to 0.52, and FBI MOST WANTED dropped 0.12 to 0.54. NBC:  THE VOICE was down 0.14 from last […]

> It being a Friday, not a single show on network television could even manage a 2 rating in 18-49s.  Even within that narrow radius, though, there was room to be a loser. CBS:  A GIFTED MAN (see our Pilot + 1 Review) had little room to fall after a blah debut, and now it […]