The night didn’t offer much good ratings news outside of Shondaland. 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). […]

  AMERICA’S GOT TALENT didn’t get much of a bump from a return to its regular format. 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 […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  CELEBRITY APPRENTICE and the rerun THE ORIGINALS each lost 0.1 in final Monday ratings, while NCIS: LA gained 0.1. Ratings in key demos for the Top 25 original cable telecasts (plus a few other lower-rated but noteworthy programs): VH1 returned to the Monday schedule on top, as LOVE & HIP HOP ended […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  FOX’s DAYTONA 500 coverage adjusted to 0.91.  In addition, there were significant adjustments (to the next tenth) for AMERICAN IDOL and 60 MINUTES.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Note–due to last week’s Super Bowl, comparisons except where otherwise noted are […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  WINTER OLYMPICS coverage adjusted to 6.5.  Elsewhere, the WHO SHOT BIGGIE & TUPAC? rerun gained 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  ESPN’s NBA doubleheader sandwiched the top 3 slots on Friday cable at 0.59/0.50.  On Discovery, a […]

  NOTE TO READERS:  This week, afternoon charts will be posted initially in raw form, and will be updated to full format later in the day.  The Top 40 chart is now in its normal format. NETWORK UPDATE:  It was AMERICA’S GOT TALENT and HOLLYWOOD GAME NIGHT’s turn to swap 0.1s in final numbers, the […]

  The other networks are glad to see the last of the World Series. FOX:  Per Mitch Metcalf:  with a 5.4 preliminary number, WORLD SERIES GAME 6 might end up around a 6.0 adult 18-49 rating in the official nationals, just below the low-end of the three recent Game 6 ratings (6.2 in 2008 for Philadelphia-Tampa Bay, 6.5 […]

  AMC has renewed its building-the-railroad melodrama HELL ON WHEELS for a 10-episode 3rd season.  The renewal was far from a sure thing, as the show has indifferent ratings among 18-49s (the recent season finale was at 0.5, which was around where the series usually landed where it didn’t have a strong lead-in), but it […]