NETWORK UPDATE:  Things only got better for ABC in Sunday’s final ratings, as every show on its primetime line-up went up:  ONCE UPON A TIME and RESURRECTION each by 0.03, and REVENGE and the ONCE clip show by 0.01.  CSI lost 0.1 in final ratings.  SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL adjusted up to 8.7. Ratings in […]

Ratings in key demos for the Top 25 original cable telecasts Saturday (plus a few other lower-rated but noteworthy programs): COLLEGE FOOTBALL on ESPN was by far Saturday’s biggest cable draw, taking up 4 of the Top 5 slots and several more below that.  The top 3 games were at 1.03-1.56, the latter more than tripling […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  HAWAII 5-0 lost another 0.1 in final Friday numbers.  SHARK TANK was up 0.1.  Ratings in key demos for the Top 25 original cable telecasts Friday: GIRL MEETS WORLD (Disney) lost 0.09 from last Friday but still topped this week’s very quiet Friday cable originals at 0.63, with lead-in JESSIE down 0.06 […]

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday September 27 and Sunday September 28, 2014. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. NFL: Week 4 Sunday 8.2 rating CBS 1 or 4 pm Single (1pm: TEN-IND CAR-BAL MIA-OAK […]

  FROZEN continued to be gold for Disney and its subsidiaries last night. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment) Sunday, 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 […]

  OPENINGS:  THE EQUALIZER (Columbia/Sony) was a bit softer on Saturday than Denzel Washington’s other hits at this box office level, up 8% compared to 11% for American Gangster and 19% for Safe House.  (Possibly because Equalizer is a terrible movie.)  That resulted in a $35M weekend that was slightly lower than Friday’s start had […]

WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD.  Universal and Sony each had weeks over $100 million, mostly because of the domestic releases of The Boxtrolls (Focus) and The Equalizer.  But both movies remain mired toward the bottom of the worldwide studio rankings. Scroll down for domestic and overseas grosses for each film individually so far in 2014.   YEAR TO DATE BOX […]

Based on Friday’s and Saturday’s grosses, weekend #39 of 2014 looks like $99 million for the top 12 films Friday-Sunday, 5% above the norm for this weekend ($95 million) and just a shade under yesterday’s estimate ($100 million). Opening at 3,236 theaters, The Equalizer from Sony grossed $12.6 million Friday and $13.6 million Saturday, now […]