NETWORK FINALS:  NEW AMSTERDAM lost 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Bravo’s VANDERPUMP RULES led Tuesday cable, down a tick to 0.39.  ESPN’s COLLEGE BASKETBALL games were at 0.38/0.18/0.15.  On Discovery, MOONSHINERS fell 0.09 to 0.26, and GUARDIANS OF […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL adjusted to 5.1 on Thanksgiving night.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  The pickings were slim on Thanksgiving cable for original proramming.  ESPN’s primetime COLLEGE FOOTBALL game led at 0.73.  Hallmark’s holiday movie THE MISTLETOE INN was at […]

  Remember when The Voice was a big hit? NBC:  We won’t know until fall if it really means anything–certainly there are fewer people watching TV in general now that the regular season is over–but THE VOICE fell to an all-time performance show low 3.1 last night, down 0.4 from last week.  It’s been doing […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  NBC’s SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL adjusted to 4.9, up 0.6 from last week’s final.  After adjustment for late-afternoon NFL, THE SIMPSONS fell half a point (down 0.3 from the final 2019 rating for the TREEHOUSE OF HORROR episode), BLESS THE HARTS lost 0.1, and BOB’S BURGERS gained 0.1.  In addition, […]

  BROADCAST FINALS:  ABC’s COLLEGE FOOTBALL was at 1.12.  The season premiere of NBC’s SNL was at 0.73, down 0.19 from 2021’s premiere.  FOX’s MLB game was at 0.54.    Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  COLLEGE FOOTBALL was dominant, with ESPN’s games at 0.86/0.80/0.69/0.39, Big 10’s at 0.37/0.24/0.11, Fox Sports 1’s […]

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). PREVIOUS SATURDAY NETWORK SCORECARDS (FAST NATIONALS) PREVIOUS SATURDAY CABLE & BROADCAST NATIONALS […]

  NBC has little enough to brag about these days, so it’s understandable that the network would want to claim victory for its breakout drama THE BLACKLIST as quickly as possible.  There’s no practical benefit in renewing a series in December for the following fall, but after last night’s extremely impressive fall finale showing, with […]

> See A Word About Busted Pilots Had it managed to become a full-fledged series, PARTNERS might have been a decent fit with ABC’s other female-oriented crime shows like Castle and Body of Proof, but based on the pilot, its only points of distinctiveness were probably too gimmicky and contrived to work.   The title […]