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SHOWBUZZDAILY WEDNESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 6.10.2015

Posted June 11, 2015 by Mitch Metcalf

About as dead as mid-week network television gets. 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 and comparisons […]

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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Tuesday 2.7.2023 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED

Posted February 8, 2023 by Mitch Salem

  BROADCAST FINALS:  ABC earned bragging rights on the STATE OF THE UNION broadcast ratings with 0.61/4.4M. ABC:  Prior to the speech, the network aired a rerun at 0.26. CBS:  A rerun at 0.33 NBC:  NIGHT COURT was steady at 0.55, and AMERICAN AUTO was down 0.02 to 0.30. FOX:  9-1-1: LONE STAR dropped 0.09 […]

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UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Saturday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 2.27.2016

Posted March 1, 2016 by Mitch Metcalf

        NETWORK FINALS:  ABC’s (amazing) Golden State vs. Oklahoma City NBA game gained half a point in final numbers.  Somewhat less excitingly, the NCIS: NEW ORLEANS rerun on CBS rose 0.1.        Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  HBO insists on listing its licensed theatrical movies […]

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UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Friday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 6.28.2019

Posted July 1, 2019 by Mitch Metcalf

        NETWORK FINALS:  The MASTERS OF ILLUSION rerun lost 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  On a slow Friday night for cable, A&E’s LIVE PD clip-show hour was at the top with 0.30, down 0.06 from last week’s clip hour.  […]

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SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings 7.18-19.2015

Posted July 20, 2015 by Mitch Metcalf

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday July 18 and Sunday July 19, 2015. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. Click here for a look at sports ratings from the same weekend last year. Golf British […]

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THE SKED: WHAT TO WATCH THIS FALL ON WEEKENDS (1st Draft)

Posted May 27, 2011 by Mitch Salem

> Just how big a fan are you of RULES OF ENGAGEMENT?  If CBS dropped it off the top of the Empire State Building, would you jump after it?  Because that’s pretty much what they’ve done by (probably only temporarily) airing new episodes on Saturdays.  The rest of the night isn’t even worth mentioning… The […]

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THE SKED PILOT REVIEW: “The Client List”

Posted April 9, 2012 by Mitch Salem

>THE CLIENT LIST: Sundays 10PM on Lifetime – If Nothing Else Is On… It’s the very prosaic, unsexy ordinariness of THE CLIENT LIST that makes it somewhat revolutionary. For HBO or Showtime to air salacious shows about the lives of hookers (as they have, with Hung and Secret Diary of a Call Girl) is just […]

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UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Tuesday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 10.31.2017

Posted November 1, 2017 by Mitch Metcalf

        NETWORK FINALS:  WORLD SERIES Game 6 adjusted to 6.0, down 0.6 from 2016’s Game 6.  Elsewhere, THE MIDDLE gained 0.1 in final numbers, and LAW & ORDER: TRUE CRIME lost the same.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  FX’s AMERICAN HORROR STORY: CULT […]

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