BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  The season finale of STATION 19 was at 0.46, up 0.04 from last week and down 0.12 from 2022.  The 2-hour season finale of GREY’S ANATOMY was at 0.43, up 0.05 from last week and down 0.17 from last year. CBS:  YOUNG SHELDON aired a 2-episode season finale at 0.46/0.43, compared […]

  THE FIX doesn’t look like one. 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 […]

> CW’s biggest only hit THE VAMPIRE DIARIES returned to the schedule. WHERE WE LEFT OFF:  The painstakingly-mounted plot to once and for all kill Original Vampire Klaus (Joseph Morgan) failed when Stefan (Paul Wesley), realizing that Klaus had rigged things so that if any harm came to him, Stefan’s brother Damon (Ian Somerholder) would […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  Reruns at 0.35/0.29/0.33/0.25. CBS:  After a rerun at 0.56, the TONY AWARDS were at 0.46, down 0.11 from last year (the network claimed a small uptick in total viewers, but our numbers have it down about 100K). NBC:  Reruns at 0.23/0.21. FOX:  A USFL game at 0.17. CW:  Reruns at 0.03/0.03/0.03. […]

> Previously… On ALCATRAZ:  San Francisco cop Rebecca Madsen (Sarah Jones), whose partner was recently killed, finds herself embroiled in a mysterious case in which an Alcatraz inmate from 40 years ago, apparently long dead, has turned up not having aged a day and committing new murders.  Rebecca learns that all the Alcatraz prisoners who […]

  A crossover paid off. 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 comparisons follow […]

> CW has announced the line-up for its 2011/12 regular season finales, as well as a late-season premiere: First to exit will be ONE TREE HILL, which winds up its 9 seasons on April 4 with a 2-hour special. On April 17, RINGER will be done for the season (and maybe longer).  Starting April 24, […]

> SMASHWatch has a note from THE BACHELOR. NBC:  SMASH was down 0.3 last night, to a still-decent 2.4 that was nevertheless only 0.1 above its season low thus far.  But it faced atypical competition from the post-Bachelor special on ABC, which is sort of an excuse (“sort of” because with CBS in repeats, the […]