The first Sunday night of Olympic coverage averaged a 6.9 adult 18-49 rating on NBC from 7:00-11:00 pm.  This is well below the 7.5 rating on the same night in Turin and even slightly below the relatively weak night in Vancouver (7.0).  Last night’s coverage featured:  Team Ladies’ Free Skate & Ice Dance, Men’s Downhill, […]

  The last two days have launched what will be a nearly non-stop parade of movie (and some television) accolades that won’t end until early March, when the final “and the Oscar goes to” is announced at LA’s Dolby Theater.  It’s a struggle that will consume millions of dollars and uncountable hours in campaigning along […]

>The full Friday Box Office Results post is coming.  First a few headlines.  The Help remains at #1 with over $14 million (a scant 2% decline from last weekend).  The Debt does fairly well and looks like almost $10 million for Friday-Sunday.  Apollo 18 and Shark Night 3D struggle with around $8 million each for […]

> Despite ABC’s attempts to claim otherwise, REVENGE is more “hittish” than true hit.  Although it premiered with strong ratings in the low 3s, it’s since come down to numbers in the mid-2s, usually beaten by CSI in their shared Wednesday 10PM timeslot.  But these days, a 2.4-2.5 rating at 10PM is nothing to take […]

  OPENINGS:  It was a blah MLK Weekend at the box office, driven by soft openings.  Over the 3-day weekend, ONE OF THEM DAYS (TriStar/Sony) was reported to have a very narrow lead with $11.6M, but it was expected to fall into 2nd place with $14M including the Monday holiday.  The good news for Sony […]

>The weekend studio estimates (based on Friday and Saturday actuals and projections for Sunday) are coming in very similar to the weekend numbers posted yesterday (based on Friday actuals only).  Contraband is leading the pack, but the 3D re-issue of Beauty and the Beast should have slightly better legs in the long run.  Joyful Noise […]

> You couldn’t ask for a better example of the way in which HBO is different from all other networks–even other pay-cable networks–than its decision today to cancel BORED TO DEATH, HUNG and HOW TO MAKE IT IN AMERICA, while renewing ENLIGHTENED.  While none of the shows were hits, even by pay-cable standards, all 3 […]

      NETWORK FINALS:  AMERICAN IDOL rose 0.2 in final numbers, and THE SIMPSONS gained 0.1, while the premiere of THE REDLINE dropped 0.1.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  The Battle of Winterfell pushed HBO’s GAME OF THRONES to its 2nd highest-rated episode ever at […]