Now through the Second Round of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament on Sunday, CBS and TBS are up marginally versus the prior three years in total viewers 2+ and adults 18-49, while TNT and TRUtv are down significantly.  Across all four television partners, the March Madness ratings through Sunday are down a fairly reasonable -4% […]

Based on Friday’s and Saturday’s grosses, Weekend #45 of 2013 looks like $161 million for the top 12 films, not the record we had forecast but still 21% above the recent average for this weekend. Opening at 3,841 theaters Friday, Thor: The Dark World from Disney and Marvel grossed $31.6 million Friday and $31.7 million Saturday, now on […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  After a rerun AMERICA’S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS at 0.46, CELEBRITY FAMILY FEUD dropped 0.05 to 0.52, THE $100,000 PYRAMID ticked up to 0.45, and THE FINAL STRAW was up a tick to 0.30. CBS:  BIG BROTHER fell 0.12 to 0.79.  The remaining line-up had reruns at 0.35/0.23/0.20. NBC:  After GYMNASTICS at […]

> CBS led the way last night on the broadcast networks with a 3.7 rating ,with Adults 18-49 for an all-original line up: How I Met Your Mother (3.9), 2 Broke Girls (4.3), Two and a Half Men (4.4), Mike & Molly (3.8) and Hawaii Five-O (2.9).  Because of a massive upgrade at 8:30 pm, […]

  AFTERNOON UPDATE:  As expected, post-football adjustment wiped out the 0.2 improvements for REIGN and GLEE.  However, THE X FACTOR only lost 0.1 of its 0.3 gain, sticking at 1.5, and THE VAMPIRE DIARIES stayed at 1.3.  THE BIG BANG THEORY and GREY’S ANATOMY were also adjusted up 0.1, which for GREY’S at least got […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  The season finale of PRESS YOUR LUCK was steady at 0.43, and the season finale of GENERATION GAP gained 0.02 to 0.32.  An episode of TRUTH & LIES was at 0.21. CBS:  After reruns at 0.29/0.23, BIG BROTHER was up 0.03 to 0.70, followed by another rerun at 0.20. NBC:  Reruns […]

>Pending updates from the official national ratings for the weekend, we expect CBS to win the week of January 2-8, 2012 comfortably.  NBC will finish in second place, thanks to a Saturday night prime time NFL playoff game, which bailed out its week.  The numbers below reflect final ratings for Monday-Thursday and adjusted fast nationals […]

Weekend #16 of 2016 forecasts for films opening wide and major returning films: NEW FILMS THIS WEEKEND April 15-17, 2016 Critics Positive ($ millions) Opening Weekend Forecast Domestic Total Projection Overseas Total Projection Worldwide Total Projection The Jungle Book Dis PG 92% 78.0 235 625 860 Barbershop: The Next Cut WB PG13 75% 20.5 75 […]