> Disclaimer:  Network pilots now in circulation are not necessarily in the form that will air in the Fall.  Pilots are often reedited and rescored, and in some cases even recast or reshot.  So these critiques shouldn’t be taken as full reviews, but rather as a guide to the general style and content of the […]

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). COMPARISONS TO SIMILAR NIGHTS: Preliminary adult 18-49 ratings versus the same night […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  The finale of BROKE and CELEBRITY WATCH PARTY gained 0.1 in final numbers, and the reruns of SVU and MOM lost the same.          Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  A Trump Town Hall put Fox News’s HANNITY at the top of […]

Last night’s breakout star has a day job.  Someone sign the President to a development deal… in four years. CW:  The gambit of launching EMILY OWENS MD while the debate occupied all the other broadcast networks didn’t work, as the show debuted with a weak 0.5.  That didn’t even hold the 0.6 lead-in it had […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  KEVIN CAN WAIT, GOTHAM and JANE THE VIRGIN gained 0.1 in final numbers, and QUANTICO lost the same.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  TNT’s NBA PLAYOFFS game was on top of Monday cable at 1.71, while NBC Sports Net’s NHL […]

  CBS is launching the bulk of its fall schedule during the broadcast networks’ official Premiere Week, Sept 22-28, but with a few exceptions, including a slightly early kick-off for its Sunday shows, and some shifts caused by its Sept-Oct Thursday Night Football games and the temporary move of The Big Bang Theory to Mondays.  […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  DYNASTY lost 0.1 in final numbers, returning to the 0.1 level.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  ESPN’s NBA PLAYOFFS games took the top slots on Friday cable with 1.15/1.04, while NBC Sports Net owned the bottom end of the Top […]

The AUDIENCE MAP series continues with a look at the detailed demographics for major televised awards shows over the past year.  As a reminder, the audience shares for 30 distinct gender-age groups are displayed for each program below.  Programs in the chart are ranked by overall audience size, from the Oscars (or Academy Awards if […]