Perhaps the worst-kept secret in recent network history is one no longer, as NBC officially announced today that it will be fellow former Saturday Night Live Weekend Update host Seth Meyers who will take over from Jimmy Fallon at LATE NIGHT when the latter ascends to the deck of the Tonight Show.  Meyers will […]

    NETWORK FINALS:  Due to the extreme amount of adjustments that were likely because of local NFL preemptions, we’ve relocated our network rating analysis to this post.  Comparisons are to last Thursday’s finals. ABC:  HOLEY MOLEY dropped 0.2 to 0.5, and both FAMILY FOOD FIGHT (0.3) and REEF BREAK (0.2) were down 0.1. CBS:  […]

Lance Armstrong (as calculating, cautious and conniving as ever) appeared with Oprah Winfrey Thursday night on the struggling OWN network in a much-hyped and relatively little-watched interview. The 90-minute part one of Lance Armstrong on Oprah’s Next Chapter at 9:00 pm scored a 1.2 rating with adults 18-49 and averaged 3.2 million viewers of any age.  The […]

    Tell the understudies to start learning their lines, as NBC wants it to be known that the Season 2 version of SMASH, under new showrunner Josh Safran, will be markedly different from the generally assailed Season 1.  No less than 4 major characters are being written out, and all the exits target the […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  JUDGE STEVE HARVEY dropped 0.05 to 0.27, and THE WONDER YEARS was down 0.04 to 0.21.  Reruns followed at 0.17/0.18. CBS:  eruns at 0.44/0.48/0.23. NBC:  LA FIRE & RESCUE lost 0.04 to 0.25, followed by reruns at 0.16/0.15. FOX:  Reruns at 0.23/0.17. CW:  NANCY DREW was steady at 0.03, and RIVERDALE […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  The ABC and NBC coverage of the DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION adjusted up to 0.4 in final numbers (CBS stayed as its preliminary 0.2).          Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  The arrival of the DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION brought the unusual sight of […]

          NETWORK FINALS:  There were significant adjustments (to the next tenth) for MACGYVER, WWE SMACKDOWN and the 8:30PM rerun of MR MAYOR.        Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  CNN’s ANDERSON COOPER 360 was the top-rated cable show of the day at 0.82/1.19/4.9M, with MSNBD’s […]

  Not much of a farewell for AMERICA’S NEXT TOP MODEL. 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 […]