>TUESDAYS this fall officially start the night of September 20, but we get a sneak peak at the night tonight with the early premieres of three shows:  Parenthood on NBC and 90210 and Ringer on The CW.  Click “read more” to see a preview of Tuesday nights, including updated ratings projections for each time period. […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  BIG BROTHER gained 0.1 in final numbers, and CANDY CRUSH lost the same. The season finale of AMERICAN GRIT was rated as 2 separate hours in finals, respectively 0.3/0.4.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Score it at Dragons 1, Sharks […]

  This wasn’t the way THE MINDY PROJECT wanted to end its season. 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 […]

Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday December 7 through Sunday December 13, 2020.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 200K Persons 2+ live+same day).  Programs are grouped by sport and ranked within each sport by P2+ audience size. For comparison, here is the similar chart […]

  For viewers not watching sports or zombies last night–however few of them there were–TV offered a gangbusters episode of The Good Wife and a superb hour from Masters of Sex (although the less said about Homeland, perhaps, the better).  Note:  we’ve adjusted the NBC and FOX sports numbers to where we think they’ll end […]

> Another experiment fails. ABC:  PRIVATE PRACTICE has been comfortably successful on Thursdays, in the shelter of older sibling Grey’s Anatomy. but the network’s attempt to try it out on Tuesday nights–while Shonda Rhimes’ other show Scandal occupies the Thursday 10PM slot–didn’t have a promising start.  Despite airing against a rerun on CBS, and featuring […]

> FROM OUR MUSIC CORRESPONDENT ALICEN SCHNEIDER: Every few months I send out a sampler of songs that I’m excited about.   It originated from a number of people continuously asking me what was floating my boat, and oftentimes I couldn’t articulate an answer on the spot, due to the circumstances of the moment when they […]

> For those who don’t know, PaleyFest is a yearly 2-week program sponsored by The Paley Center For Media in Los Angeles, in which every night (or occasional weekend afternoon) is devoted to saluting a particular television show, usually a mix of the season’s brightest new series and a few older shows.  Each presentation begins […]