> A lot can happen between the creation of a TV pilot in the spring and the production of episodes for the regular season: a writing/producing team is hired, audience focus groups weigh in, networks and studios (which may have had their own turnover) give plenty of notes, helpful and otherwise, and critics begin to […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  NBC’s final STANLEY CUP game adjusted to 2.7.  Elsewhere, CARD SHARKS and NCIS: THE CASES THEY CAN’T FORGET lost 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:   The season premiere of OWN’s QUEEN SUGAR was at 0.21, down 0.08 from […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  THE GOLDBERGS dipped 0.05 to 0.54, and THE WONDER YEARS fell 0.15 to 0.39.  Following a rerun of THE CONNERS at 0.30, HOME ECONOMICS was down 0.09 to 0.29.  A SUPERSTAR special was at 0.28. CBS:  SURVIVOR climbed 0.09 to 1.01, TOUGH AS NAILS slipped 0.02 to 0.41, and CSI: VEGAS […]

Not a tuneful evening. ABC:  The AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS collapsed to a 3.4, the highest non-football of the night and somewhat higher than what ABC has been doing on Sundays, but down 0.9 from last year’s telecast. FOX:  Without the benefit of last Sunday’s NFL overtime lead-in, THE SIMPSONS and BOB’S BURGERS were way down […]

  A bad night for THE VOICE. 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 BILLBOARD MUSIC AWARDS and THE AMAZING RACE were the latest TV staples to plunge. 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 […]

Projected weekly network ratings in prime time (based on four days of official nationals and three days of fast nationals). CBS returned to the top spot this past week despite not airing in about 3 million Time Warner Cable homes as the stand-off over per-subscriber compensation drags on.  NBC tumbled to third place, as a […]

  The news wasn’t good for EMERGENCE.  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 […]