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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Wednesday 6.21.2023 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED

Posted June 23, 2023 by Mitch Salem

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  JUDGE STEVE HARVEY ticked down to 0.32, and THE WONDER YEARS was at 0.25 compared to last week’s 0.22/0.18.  Reruns followed at 0.20/0.20. CBS:  Reruns st 0.28/0.23/0.29/0.16. NBC:  LA FIRE & RESCUE returned at 0.29, followed by reruns at 0.22/0.21. FOX:  MASTERCHEF was steady at 0.42, and FOOD STARS ticked up […]

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SHOWBUZZDAILY FRIDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 3.1.2019

Posted March 2, 2019 by Mitch Metcalf

  PROVEN INNOCENT showed a faint sign of life. 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 of people over the age of 2). Ratings […]

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THE SKED: More NBC Newness

Posted May 9, 2012 by Mitch Salem

  NBC’s pre-Upfront pick-up spree continues with GUYS WITH KIDS, its first multicamera comedy order of the season.  The title seems to be self-explanatory:  the show’s logline describes it as being about thirtysomething guys (Anthony Anderson, Jesse Bradford and Zach Cregger) who have, you know, kids, despite being child-men themselves (see:  every Judd Apatow movie […]

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The Sked: MONDAY RATINGS January 9

Posted January 10, 2012 by Mitch Metcalf

>On a night overshadowed by the BCS National Championship college football game on sister network ESPN (Alabama shutting out LSU — ratings available later), ABC decided to go with female-skewing originals, narrowly beating the other broadcast networks with a 2.2 Adult 18-49 rating.  The Bachelor was down two tenths of a rating point in its […]

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UPDATED with BROADCAST: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Thursday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 1.19.2017

Posted January 23, 2017 by Mitch Metcalf

        NETWORK FINALS:  THE BIG BANG THEORY gained 0.1 in final numbers, while MY KITCHEN RULES lost the same.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  It’s not much of a shock that Inauguration Eve was a bonanza for Fox News, which had all of […]

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UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Tuesday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 1.10.2017

Posted January 11, 2017 by Mitch Metcalf

    NETWORK FINALS:  Adjustments pushed THIS IS US up 0.4 to a new series high 3.0, but that’s a bit misleading, because the episode aired twice on the West Coast, at 9PM and again at 10PM, and the final rating includes their cumulative total.  In addition, THE MICK gained 0.1 and BONES lost the […]

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THE SKED’S NIELSENWAR – Fall TV Turkey Edition

Posted November 19, 2012 by Mitch Salem

  As this is a week when turkeys are revered, celebrated, and then eaten, let’s take a look at what wisdom the network’s Fall feathered non-fliers have to impart to us.  In other words, What did this Fall’s canceled series tell us that we didn’t already know? 666 PARK AVENUE (ABC):  There are two lessons […]

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UPDATED: THE SKED CABLE/NETWORK SCORECARD – 4/13/14

Posted April 15, 2014 by Mitch Salem

  TUESDAY UPDATE:  With the Masters overrun removed, 60 MINUTES fell 0.2 from early numbers.  The rest of the adjustments were upward by 0.1:  ONCE UPON A TIME and RESURRECTION on ABC, THE AMAZING RACE and THE MENTALIST on CBS, and THE SIMPSONS and COSMOS on FOX. SUNDAY CABLE:  The Purple Wedding episode of GAME […]

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