BROADCAST FINALS: ABC:  DANCING WITH THE STARS fell two-tenths to 0.72, and the season premiere of THE GOOD DOCTOR was at 0.41, down 0.16 from January’s season premiere. CBS:  THE NEIGHBORHOOD gained 0.03 to 0.66, BOB HEARTS ABISHOLA was up 0.05 to 0.59, NCIS slipped 0.02 to 0.71, and NCIS: HAWAII ticked down to […]

          NETWORK FINALS:  The AFC CHAMPIONSHIP game adjusted to 16.3.  In addition, CHARMED lost 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Adult Swim’s TIGTONE led scripted at 0.34/0.28, compared to last week’s 0.31/0.28.  On HBO, TRUE DETECTIVE was at 0.29 compared […]

  BROADCAST FINALS:  FOX’s Game 6 of the WORLD SERIES was at 2.93.  ABC’s primetime COLLEGE FOOTBALL was at 0.37.  and NBC’s as at 0.63.  (The dominant game of the day was CBS’s afternoon game at 3.41.)  On CW, MAGIC WITH THE STARS ticked up to 0.05, and WORLD’S FUNNIEST ANIMALS held at 0.04.  In […]

  BROADCAST FINALS:  The top-rated primetime telecast was ABC’s COLLEGE FOOTBALL at 0.69, with NBC’s game at 0.58.  CW’s original shows were at 0.05/0.07.  SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE rose 0.21 to 1.03.   Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  As usual, Saturday cable was dominated by sports.  TBS’s NLCS MLB PLAYOFFS game was […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  SUPERGIRL will have to share the honors for the fall’s highest-rated premiere, as its 0.1 drop in final numbers tied it at 3.1 with the debut of BLINDSPOT.  As we noted this morning, the numbers through the hour were very consistent (3.3/3.0/3.2/3.2), which bodes well for a solid hold next week (albeit […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  MODERN FAMILY, CHICAGO PD and SURVIVOR gained 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  The end of the line for A&E’s DUCK DYNASTY came with a handsome 0.17 bump to 0.50 (a “best of” clip show lead-in was […]

  Last night’s NBA Draft on ESPN will probably have a 1.5-1.6 rating, which will make it the third-highest show of the night, behind only Hell’s Kitchen on FOX and a repeat Big Bang Theory on CBS.  (Last night’s Draft tied ESPN’s highest rating since the network started covering the event in 2003.)  The networks collectively sunk 10% below […]

NBC would like last night to repeat over and over, a la Groundhog Day; FOX wishes it never happened. NBC:  With a 4.1 rating, REVOLUTION opened big.  V big.  The Bionic Woman big.  Wait, those were fantasy adventures that had huge starts, then quickly petered out into flops?  Shut up, observes NBC.  The truth is […]