> With Thanksgiving over, we’re in the mix of original episodes, specials and reruns that mark December. ABC: ONCE UPON A TIME weathered its first preemption last week pretty well, falling a bit but still very comfortable with a 3.4 that was the highest scripted number of the night. After that, though, things fell off […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  On a season finale night, THE ROOKIE was at 0.51 (up 0.14 from last week and up 0.15 from last season’s finale), THE ROOKIE: FEDS was at 0.32 (up 0.08), and WILL TRENT was at 0.27 (up 0.07).  CBS:  Reruns at 0.29/0.25/0.22. NBC:  NIGHT COURT lost 0.05 to 0.34, LOPEZ VS […]

  A bad night for almost everyone. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary live+same day 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 […]

> WARNING:  Scaaaarrrry Spoilers Within You have to give AMERICAN HORROR STORY the credit of its crazy, crazy convictions.  Ryan Murphy and his gang of producers followed through on where the last few episodes appeared to be going, and the result will be a second season presumably very different from its first. It didn’t take […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  A SOUL OF THE NATION special was at 0.20, followed by a 20/20 rerun at 0.23. CBS:  A run of the movie STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS was at 0.15. NBC:  Reruns at 0.23/0.23. FOX:  WWE SMACKDOWN ticked down to 0.52. CW:  Reruns at 0.07/0.06/0.05. TELEMUNDO:  TOP CHEF VIP dropped 0.03 to […]

> PBS had to dust off its forms and sharpen the quill pens it uses to announce big ratings news, because DOWNTON ABBEY came back strong in its Season 2 debut. The network announced that Downton‘s premiere was watched by 4.2 million viewers.  Apart from doubling PBS’s usual primetime average–which is no surprise–it was up […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  JUDGE STEVE HARVEY ticked down to 0.32, and THE WONDER YEARS was at 0.25 compared to last week’s 0.22/0.18.  Reruns followed at 0.20/0.20. CBS:  Reruns st 0.28/0.23/0.29/0.16. NBC:  LA FIRE & RESCUE returned at 0.29, followed by reruns at 0.22/0.21. FOX:  MASTERCHEF was steady at 0.42, and FOOD STARS ticked up […]

> It was the last Monday before things get interesting. FOX:  The network won the night, although the 2.8 for HOUSE and especially the 2.7 for ALCATRAZ were far from impressive, considering that CBS was in repeats and NBC will be ramping up the competition level enormously next week. February will tell the tale on […]