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). ###

        NETWORK FINALS:  ABC’s COLLEGE FOOTBALL game adjusted to 0.8.  In addition, the reruns of THE WALL, ELLEN’S GAME OF GAMES and SNL all lost 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  ESPN’s Auburn vs. Georgia COLLEGE FOOTBALL game led Saturday […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  FOX’s COLLEGE FOOTBALL game adjusted to 0.7.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Every show in Saturday cable’s Top 10 was sports-related.  Fox Sports 1’s NLCS Game 7 led at 1.82.  ESPN’s NBA game was at 1.48.  The same network’s COLLEGE FOOTBALL […]

  PaleyFest tried something a little different tonight as part of a rambunctious celebration of COMMUNITY, replacing the usual screening with a live table read that featured most of the regular cast, aside from Donald Glover and–of course–Chevy Chase (Fred Willard subbed for Chase).  Slightly disappointingly, the episode read was last month’s series premiere, so […]

The networks premiered their Wednesday nights last night (mostly), and they finished in the order we forecast back in May (FOX #1, CBS and ABC fighting for #2, and NBC a distant #4).  But three of the four networks are well below our predicted rating levels and well below the ratings from the Wednesday premiere […]

Monday ratings.  CBS’s Under the Dome (2.5 adult 18-49 fast national rating last night, probably going up to a 2.6 in the official nationals later today) is down from recent levels (2.8 rating average the last three weeks),  but the dip is probably more related to unusually strong competition from ABC’s Bachelorette finale night than the ongoing blackout from […]

  Just a day after NBC announced the end of its Thursday Must-See-TV block of comedies, FOX is breaking up its Animation Domination Sundays with a pair of live-action sitcoms.  There are plenty of changes to the FOX line-up on the way, and here’s a quick breakdown: MONDAY:  Matching the new Batman prequel GOTHAM with […]

> Until its final 45 minutes, the one thing that could be said about this year’s Oscar telecast was that it was at least brisk.  Merely 2 hours and 15 minutes into the show, there were amazingly only 3 awards and the In Memorium segment still to go.  But for ABC, running under the appointed […]