OPENINGS:  UNCHARTED (Columbia/Sony) had a strong start with $44.2M ($51M with the holiday Monday), once again largely due to the M18-34 demo, but also suggesting that Tom Holland may be emerging as an action star even without webs to spin.  (Of course it didn’t hurt that Uncharted followed his mega-smash Spider-Man so closely that […]

The Presidents Day holiday will cause delays for national U.S. television ratings (live+same day cable and broadcast) for several days. This is how the cable and broadcast nationals should roll out the next week or so. We will update this schedule if anything changes.  (All times Pacific.) Friday 2/18 nationals available Tuesday 2/22 by 2 […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  JEOPARDY COLLEGE CHAMPIONSHIP rose 0.09 from Wednesday to 0.61.  Reruns followed at 0.24/0.15. CBS:  Reruns at 0.44/0.35/0.33/0.30/0.21. NBC:  The WINTER OLYMPICS was at 1.38, down 60% from the parallel night in 2018. FOX:  JOE MILLIONAIRE gained 0.05 to 0.31, CALL ME KAT dropped 0.05 to 0.30, and PIVOTING was down 0.06 […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  JEOPARDY COLLEGE CHAMPIONSHIP gained 0.03 from Tuesday to 0.52.  The season finale episodes of THE CHASE were at 0.37/0.31 compared to last week’s 0.34/0.27. CBS:  BIG BROTHER: CELEBRITY EDITION dropped 0.06 to 0.54, and THE AMAZING RACE was down 0.08 to 0.47.  An NCIS rerun followed at 0.23. NBC:  The WINTER […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  JEOPARDY COLLEGE CHAMPIONSHIP was at 0.49, down 0.15 from last Tuesday.  ABBOTT ELEMENTARY fell 0.16 to 0.41, and BLACK-ISH was down 0.11 to 0.30.  The season finale of QUEENS lost 0.03 to 0.20. CBS:  Reruns at 0.38/0.31/0.25. NBC:  The WINTER OLYMPICS was at 1.54, down 61% from the parallel night in […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:   THE BACHELOR ticked down to 0.65.  In what turned out to be the final straw for PROMISED LAND, which will be yanked to Hulu after next week, the series dropped 0.03 to 0.15. CBS:  THE PRICE IS RIGHT AT NIGHT was at 0.53, and BIG BROTHER: CELEBRITY EDITION ticked down […]

  BROADCAST FINALS:  Note that the length of the NBC schedule on Super Bowl Sunday cut off the other networks, so partial ratings for those are below. ABC:  Reruns of AMERICA’S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS were at 0.17/1.7M & 0.17/1.6M, and reruns of SHARK TANK were at 0.10/800K & 0.18/1.2M. CBS:  A rerun of 60 MINUTES […]

  BROADCAST FINALS:  NBC’s primetime WINTER OLYMPICS coverage was at 1.37.  ABC’s NBA game was at 0.92.  CW’s shows were at 0.05/0.06.   Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  USA’s portion of WINTER OLYMPICS coverage was at 0.39/0.36/0.31/0.29/0.17/0.16/0.15/0.11/0.11.  ESPN’s COLLEGE BASKETBALL was at 0.33/0.31/0.19/0.18, with UFC PRELIMS at 0.31.  Hallmark’s original movie […]