Broadcast news and late night series ratings available below for this week and the same week last year. You can also search for other available weeks with the link at the bottom of this post. Week 45: October 31-November 6, 2022 Broadcast News: Current Week Broadcast News: Same Week Last Year   Broadcast Late Night: […]

>Wednesday ratings are settling into predictable patterns for the most part, and Suburgatory on ABC had a decent second week.  FOX’s The X-Factor seems to settling around a high-3 or 4 rating. ABC’s Suburgatory fell to a still-good 3.0 rating in its second episode but still grew from its Middle lead-in.  Last week Suburgatory grew […]

BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  The new special MICKEY SAVES CHRISTMAS at 0.28 was followed by a rerun of OLAF’S FROZEN CHRISTMAS at 0.35.  An original MAGICAL HOLIDAY CELEBRATION special at 0.35 was followed by a rerun AMERICA’S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS at 0.19. CBS:  Compared to 2 weeks ago when the network didn’t have the late national […]

>   See A Word About Busted Pilots We’ve gotten this far without using the word “ghastly” to describe any of the busted pilots from this year’s development season, but that streak is about to end.  HELP WANTED, which was produced by Warner Bros for NBC, is unaccountably bad.  Partly that’s a function of its […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  Reruns at 0.43/0.33/0.19. CBS:  Reruns at 0.46/0.36/0.31/0.27/0.29/0.33. NBC:  After a rerun SNL clip show at 0.51, THE WHEEL was down 0.02 to 0.26. FOX:  Reruns at 0.21/0.13/0.17. CW:  Reruns at 0.08/0.06. AMAZON:  THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL was at 2.82, down 0.76 from last week’s game. TELEMUNDO:  EXATLON lost 0.03 to 0.24, REINA […]

> On the night that two of the Fall’s most-hyped new arrivals made their debuts, the clear winner was a returning hit. ABC:  When their horse has the lead, horse-racing fans will sometimes yell out “Wire!” in the hope that the finish line will miraculously appear and the race will end exactly as is.  That’s […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  Reruns at 0.29/0.31/0.20. CBS:  The afternoon NFL PLAYOFFS game was at 7.55, but wasn’t a direct lead-in to 60 MINUTES, which fell 0.79 to 0.48.  EAST NEW YORK dropped 0.11 to 0.41, and NCIS: LA was down 0.03 to 0.34. NBC:  SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL was at 7.33, up 1.57 from last […]

>Deadline reports that NBC has pushed the launch of its scripted Friday shows CHUCK and GRIMM by a week, from October 21 to October 28.  Supposedly this is to give the series the benefit of a 2-day Halloween marketing push to begin with the network airing holiday-themed episodes of its Thursday comedies on October 27, […]