>ESPN’s Monday Night Football this week was down from a 6.9 to a 5.0 rating this week.  Blame AFC teams and a lopsided score.  Jersey Shore was down a tenth of a rating point and pushed into third place by a very good season premiere of Walking Dead on AMC.  BET’s Hip Hop Awards scored […]

  MASTERCHEF JR cooked nicely for FOX. 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 follow […]

  The night was a bout between basketball and soaps. 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 MASKED SINGER was dominant on a night with many declines. 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 […]

> The Emmys, of all show-business awards, lend themselves least to surprise.  That’s because they’re the only group that nominate and award continuing series, meaning that the same high-quality shows repeat year after year.  (There was a stretch where it seemed like Frasier had started winning Best Comedy during the Truman Administration.)  You can’t really […]

    NOTE TO READERS:  For the remainder of this week (4/17-19), afternoon cable posts, which usually appear around 1:30PM PDT, will likely be posted about 5PM PDT.     NETWORK FINALS:  MAN WITH A PLAN and THE RESIDENT gained 0.1 in final numbers, but things got worse for the premiere of THE CODE, which lost […]

    NOTE TO READERS:  For the remainder of this week (4/17-19), our afternoon cable posts, which usually go up around 1:30PM PDT, will likely be posted around 5PM PDT, with text to follow.   NETWORK FINALS:  There were no changes from the preliminary Sunday ratings.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  There were significant adjustments (to the next tenth) for KIDS SAY THE DARNDEST THINGS, CHICAGO MED, CHICAGO FIRE and THE MASKED SINGER.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  TNT’s ALL ELITE WRESTLING led Wednesday cable, up 0.09 to 0.42,  MTV’s THE […]