NETWORK FINALS:  There were significant adjustments (to the next tenth) for STATION 19, UNITED STATES OF AL, SVU, LAW & ORDER: ORGANIZED CRIME and HELL’S KITCHEN.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  TNT’s NBA doubleheader was at 0.39/0.23.  On HGTV, NO DEMO RENO […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  ABC’s NBA FINALS game adjusted up to 7.6 in final numbers, and correspondingly the lead-in JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE shrank to 1.4.  Elsewhere, the BONES season finale gained 0.1, as did all the CBS sitcom reruns. CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Syfy’s WWE coverage took the cable night with 0.73, up 0.14 from last week.  That didn’t help the […]

  THE BACHELOR remained viewers’ suitor of choice. 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 age of 2). Ratings analysis and comparisons […]

> NBC, for whom this season cannot end too soon, has added a few summer premiere dates to its schedule: Monday May 21 9PM:    AMERICAN NINJA WARRIOR – reality competition series that will air both on NBC and the G4 cable network Thursday June 7 8PM:    LOVE IN THE WILD – 2d season of reality […]

Based on Friday’s and Saturday’s grosses, weekend #20 of 2015 now looks like $178 million for the top 12 films Friday-Sunday, a little better than yesterday’s estimate ($172 million) and now solidly above the norm for this weekend. Opening at 3,473 theaters Friday, Pitch Perfect 2 from Universal is now on track for a $70.3 million opening three-day weekend (well […]

Weekend #20 of 2015 is looking like $157 million for the top 12 films this weekend, very close to the norm for this weekend. Opening at around 3,400 theaters Friday (above the 2,886 average theater count for opening weekends the last two years), Pitch Perfect 2 from Universal should average a very good $15,600 per theater for the three-day weekend […]

    NETWORK UPDATE:  Both THE X-FILES and LUCIFER gained 0.1 in final numbers, although they’re still way off from last week’s ratings.  THE BACHELOR also received an 0.1 bump.  The NCIS: LA rerun lost 0.1.  Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  VH1 had the Monday cable lead, with 1.42 (down […]

>Airing on a special night (because of the World Series tonight), The X Factor scored another nightly victory for FOX with a 3.8 Adult 18-49 rating in the fast nationals.  Expect the rating to go up to a 3.9 or even 4.0 in the official nationals, which would put the Simon Cowell singing competition show […]