NETWORK FINALS:  The season finale of LAST MAN STANDING gained 0.1 in final numbers, while THE ORIGINALS and DATELINE lost the same.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Basketball was at the top of Friday cable.  On the pro side, ESPN had the […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  Once again, local NFL PRESEASON games shook up the preliminary ratings.  Since the night was mostly reruns, there’s no need for detailed analysis.  Here’s the summary:  there were 0.2 drops for BH90210, MASTERS OF ILLUSION and AMERICAN NINJA WARRIOR, and 0.1 drops for AMERICAN HOUSEWIFE, FRESH OFF THE BOAT, […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  AMERICAN NINJA WARRIOR gained 0.1 in final numbers, while RUNNING WILD and CEDRIC’S BARBER BATTLE each lost 0.1. CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  ESPN’s coverage of baseball’s HOME RUN DERBY easily won the night at 2.54, and was up a healthy 0.42 over last year.  See Mitch Metcalf’s in-depth analysis of the Derby ratings here.  Related […]

>Remember what we were saying about busted pilots not being a waste of time?  It’s been reported that the Fox pilot Locke & Key will receive a full screening and panel at next month’s Comic-Con.  It’s a thriller based on a graphic novel series, and the pilot is directed by Mark Romanek, whose most recent […]

  McDreamy mourners may have been angry, but they showed up. 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 […]

  Breaking Bad‘s arrival was the big ratings news on Sunday night, while the launch of Political Animals wasn’t. HBO:  TRUE BLOOD, as usual, took the night with a 2.7 that was a tick higher than last week, beating the season premiere of Big Brother on CBS and for that matter everything else on broadcast […]

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:  9JKL gained 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  USA’s WWE telecast took Monday cable, although its 1.21/1.15/1.06 was far below last week’s 1.80/1.70/1.63.  VH1’s LOVE & HIP-HOP was at 0.05/0.98, compared to last week’s 0.96/0.93.  Discovery’s STREET […]