NETWORK FINALS:  PENN & TELLER: TRY THIS AT HOME lost 0.1 in final numbers.          Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  TLC’s 90 DAY FIANCE franchise remained dominant on Monday cable at 0.77/0.50/0.44, compared to last week’s 0.88/0.48/0.46.  Bravo’s BELOW DECK ticked up to […]

  NBC has little enough to brag about these days, so it’s understandable that the network would want to claim victory for its breakout drama THE BLACKLIST as quickly as possible.  There’s no practical benefit in renewing a series in December for the following fall, but after last night’s extremely impressive fall finale showing, with […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  $100,000 PYRAMID gained 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  The season premiere of Showtime’s THE AFFAIR went badly with 0.8, down 0.09 from the November 2016 premiere (which admittedly had a 0.49 lead-in from SHAMELESS), and lead-out […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  THE MESSENGERS fell by 0.1 in final numbers, and so did the reruns of WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY, ELEMENTARY and HAWAII 5–0. CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:   Readers will note some glitches in today’s chart, caused by the way Discovery listed its SHARK WEEK shows.  Only the first listings for SHARK CLANS, SHARKS OF THE SHADOWLANDS […]

  Things aren’t getting easier for ONCE UPON A TIME. 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 […]

The nightly averages below do not include the Presidential Debate from 9:00-10:30 pm ET — since it ran commercial-free (or “sustaining”) those 90 minutes will make it into the nightly, weekly or season averages. FOX scored a 3.4 in the preliminary fast nationals for X Factor, and a 2.8 for its Fox News coverage of the […]

  BROADCAST FINALS:  FOX’s MLB game was at 0.37.  CW’s originals were at 0.04/0.02.   Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  ESPN’s NHL PLAYOFFS game was at 0.83, with TOP RANK BOXING at 0.17, and COLLEGE BASEBALL at 0.16/0.16.  On ESPN2, FORMULA 1 was at 0.24, with UFC PRELIMS at 0.16 and […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  There were no changes from the preliminary Monday ratings.           Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  USA’s WWE telecast was back at the top of Monday cable, at 1.09/1.04/0.92 compared to last week’s 1.08/0.97/0.84.  On VH1, LOVE & HIP-HOP was at 0.62/0.52 […]