ABC has had no success at all in the Thursday 8PM slot for years, which is doubly frustrating now that 9PM and 10PM are humming along beautifully with the Grey’s Anatomy/Scandal duo.  The network is trying something familiar and yet new next season:  the spin-off ONCE UPON A TIME IN WONDERLAND, which in theory […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  SWAT and THE ORVILLE gained 0.1 in final numbers, while YOUNG SHELDON and the rerun of CHARMED lost the same.           Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS: Showtime’s DESUS & MERO arrived at 0.08.  Note that at this time we have no […]

  BIG BROTHER was down a notch in its return. 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 […]

      NETWORK FINALS:  OLYMPICS coverage adjusted up by 0.1 to 9.1 in final numbers.  In addition, BIG BROTHER gained 0.1.       Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  POWER again put Starz at the top of Sunday cable, even though it fell 0.11 to 0.78, with SURVIVOR’S REMORSE […]

> FOX has added its season finales to the pile, which include an evening-long farewell to HOUSE.  Here’s the schedule: Tuesday April 17 9:30PM:  RAISING HOPE (Note:  after Hope‘s season finale, BREAKING IN will take over its timeslot for 3 weeks, although Breaking will still have a few unaired episodes after that, which will probably […]

Wednesday ratings last night and last week, with a comparision to Thursday the same week last year (because the similar Wednesday last year had the NFL kick-off game, which was displaced by coverage of President Obama’s acceptance speech for his second Democratic nomination).  Tomorrow we will compared tonight’s NFL premiere game with the unusual Wednesday […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  Reruns at 0.26/0.20. CBS:  The AFC CHAMPIONSHIP GAME was at a massive 14.35, followed by an episode of FIRE COUNTRY at 1.88. NBC:  Reruns at 0.18/0.14. FOX:  Following the afternoon NFC CHAMPIONSHIP GAME at 12.24, primetime was reruns at 0.53/0.30. CW:  Reruns at 0.06/0.05/0.03/0.02. TELEMUNDO:  CASA DE FAMOSOS was down 0.04 […]

      Analysis to follow.       Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   Top 50 Original Cable Telecasts with Demographic Detail Top 150 Original Cable Telecasts To search for a show: type Ctrl-F and type your show title in the search box. Top 150 Original Cable Telecasts: Wednesday June 2, 2021 P18-49 P2+ Rank […]