An upswing for much of network TV. 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 […]

  ONCE UPON A TIME’s final season isn’t a happy ending in the ratings. 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 […]

      NETWORK FINALS:  LAST MAN STANDING and SHARK TANK each gained 0.1 in final numbers, as did BLUE BLOODS.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  TBS’s telecast of the Blue Jays vs. Indians BASEBALL PLAYOFFS game led Friday cable at 1.10.  Discovery’s GOLD RUSH returned […]

    See our analysis of the fall line-ups for NBC, FOX and ABC. CBS always has the same story to tell at this time of year.  It portrays itself, with some accuracy, as television’s bastion of consistency, where hit shows run for years and years (and years and years and years), and even the […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  Lots of adjustments, as MASTERCHEF and the MODERN FAMILY rerun rose 0.1 in final numbers, while LITTLE BIG SHOTS, the 9:30PM episode of THE CARMICHAEL SHOW, THE F WORD, and the reruns of THIS IS US, ARROW and LEGENDS OF TOMORROW all lost the same.       Broadcast […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  THE BRAVE gained 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  As we noted on the Sunday cable post, officially the runs of THE ALIENIST on TNT and TBS were “sneak peeks,” but they were listed by Nielsen as […]

UPDATE at 3:40 pm PT: Fast nationals for Monday 12.28.2015 scheduled for release at 5:00 pm PT (8:00 pm ET), an unusually late hour for a data release. But this has been a most unusual day. UPDATE at 2:25 pm PT: Next update at 3:30 pm PT.  Around that time, Nielsen will either announce a data […]

    NETWORK UPDATE:  CHICAGO MED gained 0.1 in final numbers.  Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  There were some notable numbers a bit past the top of the Tuesday chart.  WGNAmerica’s OUTSIDERS premiered at 0.33, a blockbuster hit compared to the ratings the network was getting for SALEM (mostly in […]