Based on Friday’s and Saturday’s grosses, weekend #21 of 2015 now looks like $143 million for the top 12 films Friday-Sunday, significantly below the norm for this weekend.  A definite clunker Memorial Day Weekend at the box office. Opening at 3,972 theaters Friday, Tomorrowland from Disney is on track for a $32.2 million opening three-day weekend (better than it looked yesterday […]

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). ###

  ABC:  The network’s hope of creating an early summer sensation with 500 QUESTIONS is dying on the vine, as the game show fell yet again, down 0.2 from Thursday (which was down 0.2 from Wednesday) to 0.8.  20/20 was down 0.1 from last week to 1.0, and also down 0.1 from the SHARK TANK […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  The only adjustments from this morning’s numbers were 0.1 increases for the reruns of THE BIG BANG THEORY and ELEMENTARY. CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  ESPN’s NBA PLAYOFFS game towered over everything on broadcast or network TV at 2.73, while NBC Sports Net’s NHL PLAYOFFS were at 0.64.  Syfy’s WWE telecast rose 0.09 to 0.71, with […]

  Summer TV:  when the networks pray all the viewers who’ve fled will come back in the fall. 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 […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:   The MODERN FAMILY season finale gained 0.1 in final numbers, still leaving it way behind last week and last season’s finale.  Also up 0.1:  the SURVIVOR finale and after-show.  In addition, note that the adjusted 18-49 number for the LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN finale was 3.1. CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Sports led the way […]

  Say goodbye to the 2014-15 broadcast network TV season.  And also, of course, to LATE NIGHT WITH DAVID LETTERMAN, which outrated everything in primetime last night with a 2.8 18-49 score (making mincemeat of THE TONIGHT SHOW’s 0.8; Jimmy Kimmel, out of respect, aired a rerun), and a 9.3 in households, the show’s highest […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  THE FLASH and THE VOICE had 0.1 bumps for their season finales, as did the first hour of HELL’S KITCHEN, but IZOMBIE lost 0.1. CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Sports crowded the top of Tuesday cable, with ESPN’s NBA PLAYOFFS Golden State/Houston game at 2.89, and the NBA DRAFT LOTTERY at 1.47, as well as NBC Sports […]