> FOX has announced the premiere dates for their Fall 2011 season.  They’re not featuring any special “previews” before the season officially begins, unlike The CW, but they will have some late premieres (partly due to baseball interrupting their schedule in October).  FOX carries the Emmys on Sunday Sept. 18, and then their shows will […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  SWAT and THE ORVILLE gained 0.1 in final numbers, while YOUNG SHELDON and the rerun of CHARMED lost the same.           Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS: Showtime’s DESUS & MERO arrived at 0.08.  Note that at this time we have no […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  JUDGE STEVE HARVEY rose 0.05 to 0.45, ABBOTT ELEMENTARY was steady at 0.49, BLACK-ISH ticked up to 0.35, and TO TELL THE TRUTH was down 0.05 to 0.28. CBS:  Reruns at 0.45/0.38/0.30. NBC:  YOUNG ROCK slipped 0.02 to 0.32, and MR MAYOR was also down 0.02 to 0.27.  THIS IS US […]

  THE MASKED SINGER ended the broadcast season with a bang. 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 […]

> Not all shows premiere like Smash. ABC:  In recent years, viewers have flocked to horror series from True Blood to The Walking Dead to The Vampire Diaries, and at the multiplex, “found footage” thrillers like Paranormal Activity, The Devil Inside and Chronicle sell tickets like crazy, so… So this is why the entertainment business […]

  We’ll have head-to-head nightly ratings predictions next week, but for now, here are the fall schedules for each of the 5 broadcast networks:   CBS       ABC     FOX   Fall NBC. Midseason 2013-14  

  A few small upticks on a quiet night.  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 […]

> FALLING SKIES – Sundays 10PM on TNT – If Nothing Else Is On… Or:  how is FALLING SKIES not Terra Nova?  I’ve raved about FOX’s Fall dinosaur spectacle, and here’s another Steven Spielberg special-effects extravaganza, centered around a family trying to hold onto its identity and its life in a hair-raising environment–so what’s the […]