NETWORK UPDATE:  There was an extra 0.1 for THE SIMPSONS and AMERICA’S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS in final numbers.  SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL adjusted to 7.1, 0.6 higher than last week’s game. Ratings in key demos for the Top 25 original cable telecasts (plus a few other lower-rated but noteworthy programs): That 7.1 wasn’t enough to […]

  Ratings in key demos for the Top 25 original cable telecasts (plus a few other lower-rated but noteworthy programs): It was a sports-heavy Top 10 on Saturday cable, with college football (topped by ESPN’s primetime game at 1.57) and UFC (led by the 11:50PM segment of Spike’s coverage at 0.89) taking up 8 of […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  SHARK TANK and the rerun of MASTERCHEF JR each gained 0.1 in final numbers. Ratings in key demos for the Top 25 original cable telecasts (plus a few other lower-rated but noteworthy programs): Discovery’s entire primetime line-up was thematically linked, and all of them landed in the night’s Top 4, with GOLD RUSH: THE […]

  A 2-hour ONCE UPON A TIME boosted ABC’s night, but not the show itself. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary 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 […]

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday November 15 and Sunday November 16, 2014. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. NFL: Week 11 Sunday 11.7 rating CBS 1 or 4 pm Single (mostly OAK-SD DEN-STL CIN-NO) […]

  OPENINGS:  The race between DUMB AND DUMBER TO (Red Granite/Universal) and Big Hero 6 may get a bit closer tomorrow, since Universal has aggressively estimated a 28% Sunday drop even though Dumb fell 2% on Saturday.  (By comparison, Beyond the Lights climbed 14% on Satuday, yet is acknowledging a 40% Sunday drop.)  But even […]

WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD. Scroll down for domestic and overseas grosses for each film individually so far in 2014. YEAR TO DATE BOX OFFICE. Looking at North American box office, 2014 is still running -5% behind last year and -3% below the average for this point the past four years ($8.399 billion).  Over the same period, […]

Based on Friday’s and Saturday’s grosses, weekend #46 of 2014 looks like $135 million for the top 12 films Friday-Sunday, up from yesterday’s estimate ($128 million) but still down 29% the norm for this weekend ($191 million) but up (+13%) from the same weekend last year. Opening at 3,154 theaters, Dumb and Dumber To from Universal grossed $14.2 […]