NETWORK UPDATE:   BIG BROTHER gained 0.1 in final numbers, and the FAMILY GUY rerun slipped by 0.1. CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  The biggest ratings news of the night was the awful swoon by E!’s I AM CAIT, which lost more than half its premiere rating, down 0.58 to 0.57.  (Lead-in STEWARTS & HAMILTONS behaved likewise, down 0.23 […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  A quasi-staged BEAUTY & THE BEAST was at 0.79, which is a big number these days, but dwarfed by the 2.6 that THE LITTLE MERMAID earned in 2019.  THE PARENT TEST followed at 0.40. CBS:  A 1-hour GHOSTS was at 0.59, up 0.03 from last week’s half-hour.  SO HELP ME TODD […]

Updated weekly ranking of top cable and broadcast programs.  A broadcast network reclaimed the top spot this past week (CBS’s Saturday night telecast of the Syracuse-Michigan Final Four game), mainly because Walking Dead concluded its season last week.  Otherwise, AMC would have been atop the heap again.   There are a lot of empty spaces on this […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  There were significant adjustments (to the next tenth) for THE CONNERS and the 8PM NAME THAT TUNE.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  MTV’s THE CHALLENGE rose 0.09 to 0.53.  ESPN’s NBA doubleheader was at 0.43/0.36.  On Bravo, REAL HOUSEWIVES OF […]

  MIND GAMES:  Tuesday 10PM on ABC – If Nothing Else Is On… The creator of ABC’s midseason MIND GAMES, Kyle Killen, was the man behind Lone Star and Awake (as well as the movie The Beaver), so he doesn’t lack in fertile imagination.  What he hasn’t had, however, is any commercial success whatsoever, and […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  $100,000 PYRAMID gained 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  The season premiere of Showtime’s THE AFFAIR went badly with 0.8, down 0.09 from the November 2016 premiere (which admittedly had a 0.49 lead-in from SHAMELESS), and lead-out […]

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). ###

        NETWORK FINALS:  CW’s MASTERS OF ILLUSION, THE BIG STAGE and the 9:30PM PEAKING all dropped 0.1 in final numbers, which in the case of the latter pushed it to a 0.0 rating, something not seen very often.           Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  […]