NOTE TO READERS:  Due to our upcoming Toronto Film Festival coverage, over the next week some of our ratings posts will not have text, or may have text added a day later.  There will also be only intermittent responses to Comment requests, and there will probably be no Fri/Sun box office posts. […]

Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday April 4 through Sunday April 10, 2022. Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 200K Persons 2+ live+same day). Programs are grouped by sport and ranked within each sport by P2+ audience size. Here is the same week last year: […]

  The WINTER OLYMPICS stayed subdued. 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 follow the […]

  Not so fast, MACGYVER. 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 follows the chart. CBS:  MACGYVER […]

  There were so many preemptions in local markets for NFL preseason games last night that it’s pointless to try and gauge the ratings at this point.  The numbers below are presented for the record, and we’ll take a closer look this afternoon once adjusted ratings are available. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL The chart above goes beyond […]

  If #6seasonsandamovie is going to happen for COMMUNITY, it won’t be at NBC, which finally fired the bullet that’s been aimed at Dan Harmon’s show seemingly every season since it went on the air.  That doesn’t necessarily mean Community is dead, since there have been murmurs of a possible move to cable or a […]

Grey’s has still got it–other veteran shows don’t. ABC:  The GREY’S ANATOMY was up 0.4 from last week to a robust 3.9, its highest rating in months.  That helped push the SCANDAL season finale to a series high 2.4.  Earlier in the evening, MISSING departed forever with a comparatively tiny 1.3 (although that was up […]

          NETWORK FINALS:  WORLD SERIES Game 5 adjusted up half a point in final numbers to an even more terrific 6.7, and yet SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL stayed strong, also up half a point to 6.5, which was 0.5 higher than last week’s game.  The only other adjustment was a 0.1 dip […]