Based on Friday’s grosses, weekend #27 of 2014 looks like a truly awful $126 million for the top 12 films Friday-Sunday, 26% below the norm for this weekend and well below the $153.2 million weekend for the top 12 the last time July 4 fell on a Friday (in 2008  when Hancock opened with $62.6 […]

  It would have been nice if ABC Marketing hadn’t so broadly teased the surprise ending of tonight’s Suburgatory season finale in their promos that they more or less gave it away.  (This is why powerful producers are on the phone with network marketing departments more than they are with their own families.) Still, the […]

  A stable night for the AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary live+same day 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 […]

Updated: The ABC ratings for daytime last Sunday are finally in and the 224-minute telecast of the FIFA World Cup Final (from 2:00-5:44 pm ET) averaged over 14 million viewers, making it the #1 match of 2014 on English-language television, slightly ahead of three USA matches (#2 USA vs Portugal on June 22 with 13,774,000 total […]

    There’s no half-hour on network television more consistently accomplished than MODERN FAMILY.  The show may not reach for the demented highs of a Community (at least, you know, the old Community), 30 Rock or Happy Endings–it traffics instead in a heightened but very relatable emotional reality, and does so, virtually every week, with […]

    NOTE:  Due to Thanksgiving, comparisons are to 2 weeks ago unless otherwise noted.   NETWORK FINALS:  THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL adjusted to 5.0, down 1.1 from the Thanksgiving night game.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  NFL Network’s portion of THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL was at 0.77, […]

  The highest-rated show of the night was a rerun. 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 […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  There were lots of 0.1 moves in the final numbers, with THE BACHELORETTE, MOTEL HELL and MASTERCHEF up, and AMERICAN NINJA WARRIOR and THE YOUNG HOLLYWOOD AWARDS down. MONDAY CABLE:  A slightly subdued night for the evening’s leaders, as LOVE & HIP-HOP ATLANTA (VH1) dropped 0.3 from last week to 1.8 (plus […]