BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  After a rerun AMERICA’S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS at 0.49, the Oscar-nominated documentary SUMMER OF SOUL was at 0.15, followed by a rerun of THE WONDER YEARS at 0.11. CBS:  60 MINUTES was at 0.52, followed by BIG BROTHER: CELEBRITY EDITION, which zoomed by 0.24 to 0.50 compared to its Super Bowl […]

> TOWER HEIST hurts Universal on several levels.  It’s a big-budget movie (with marketing costs included, the total is likely $200M) in a genre that doesn’t necessarily travel well, and it was the studio’s big year-end release.  And just to make things worse, next week its pair of Stiller and Murphy have to face off […]

  Read All Our Fall Pilot Reports here and Midseason Pilot Reports here. BACK IN THE GAME:  Wednesday 8:30PM on ABC  – Worth A Look Unlike most of its characters, BACK IN THE GAME keeps its pitches pretty much in the strike zone, which in this case is a combination of The Bad News Bears […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  AMERICA’S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS fell 0.24 to 0.61, AMERICAN IDOL lost 0.11 to 0.95, and THE ROOKIE was down 0.13 to 0.38. CBS:  60 MINUTES rose 0.11 to 0.73, THE EQUALIZER edged up 0.02 to 0.62, NCIS: LA dropped 0.07 to 0.44, and SWAT was down 0.04 to 0.47. NBC:  After […]

> The small fluttering bit of NBC’s fall that was still breathing may have started to die last night. NBC:  GRIMM didn’t win its timeslot last night, after another 15% drop.  On Friday night, a 1.5 is still a decent number (good enough for 2d place in the 9PM hour last night), but the show’s […]

  OPENINGS:  HALLOWEEN (Blumhouse/Miramax/Universal) was front-loaded, with a Saturday drop that hit 18%, but that only prevented it from setting records, not from being a giant hit at $77.5M for the weekend.  That instantly makes it the highest-grossing entry in the 40-year old Halloween franchise (not adjusting for inflation).  With one more weekend before the […]

  At this late point in the network summer, it wouldn’t make sense to expect much change from the norm. ABC:  The move of MISTRESSES to 9PM had only mild effect, as the show climbed 0.1 to 1.0.  That was below the 1.1 for the rerun SHARK TANK that preceded it. NBC:  With less competition […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  Most of the broadcast networks were in rerun mode due to the NCAA Championship game, but ABC was all-new, as AMERICAN IDOL fell a tenth to 0.64, and THE GOOD DOCTOR dropped 0.07 to 0.37. CBS:  Reruns at 0.44/0.37/0.28/0.22. NBC:  AMERICAN SONG CONTEST lost another 0.06 to 0.28, and a special […]