For anyone who missed this morning’s introduction:  below are last night’s Top 25 original cable telecasts, which in this case gets us all the way to the 159th-most watched show on cable Monday night, because of the avalanche of reruns that clog the full list.  The demographic categories below should be self-explanatory, and the green and […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  Returning from an off-week, PRESS YOUR LUCK gained 0.03 to 0.46, and GENERATION GAP was down 0.06 to 0.35.  THE CON premiered at 0.23. CBS:  After reruns at 0.31/0.30, BIG BROTHER returned up 0.07 to 0.78, followed by another rerun at 0.20. NBC:  Reruns at 0.21/0.28/0.20. FOX:  Reruns at 0.24/0.12/0.10. CW:  […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  ABC’s NBA game adjusted up to 1.4 in final numbers.  Elsewhere the rerun of SUPERSTORE fell 0.1, and DATELINE fell 0.2.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  A&E’s LIVE PD won Saturday cable, down 0.02 to 0.68.  The Adult Swim line-up […]

  ABC’s annual New Year’s Eve win was even wider than last year’s. 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 […]

> On what used to be network TV’s marquee night, only one series had a rating over a 4… NBC:  …and it certainly wasn’t on NBC.  THE OFFICE is now the only non-football show on NBC to exceed even a 2.5 rating.  So far, Office is holding up pretty well post-Carell (down about 20% from […]

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday June 20 and Sunday June 21, 2015. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. Click here for a look at sports ratings from the same weekend last year. Golf US […]

> People will watch anything over an episode of CHUCK. NBC:  Facing nothing but repeats, a new Chuck could do no better than 4th place in its hour with a sad 0.8.  The GRIMM repeat did half the rating of the CSI MIAMI repeat at 9, but a new DATELINE did manage to win the […]

  FRIDAY STARZ;  In its second week, DA VINCI’S DEMONS lost half its premiere rating, falling to a 0.2 in 18-49s and half a million total viewers.  Starz strenuously asserts that this is primarily due to viewers watching the apprehension of the Boston Marathon bombing suspect that was going on that night–and we’ll find out […]