NETWORK FINALS:  THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL adjusted to 6.8.  In addition, LEGENDS OF TOMORROW gained 0.1 in final numbers, but SUPERNATURAL, THE GREAT INDOORS and THE GREAT AMERICAN BAKING SHOW fell the same.   Except with respect to some programming on HGTV, Food Network and POP, all cable comparisons are to 2 weeks […]

Thursday ratings for last night, last week and last year (using Wednesday from the same week last year as the relevant comparison, the night to which the NFL premiere game was relocated by the Democratic National Convention).  The NFL is off to a rousing start.  In the fast nationals, the game averaged a 10.0 rating, but that […]

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). Note: The fast affiliate-based ratings below measure what aired on […]

    NETWORK UPDATE:  The SHARK TANK rerun lost 0.1 in final numbers, and so did the rerun of GRANDMA GOT RUN OVER BY A REINDEER on CW. Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Discovery’s GOLD RUSH took Friday cable, up 0.13 to 1.16, with lead-in GOLD RUSH: THE DIRT up […]

  CBS was, for the most part, very CBS in its choice of new series for next season, with a pair of spin-offs, some additional procedurals, one retread sitcom and another that fits right into the network’s multi-camera family comedy sweet spot.  The biggest surprise was the omission, at least for now, of How I […]

The wheels have pretty much come off the Olympic cart in Russia.  Saturday night was even worse than Friday’s disaster, a preliminary 4.3 adult 18-49 rating from 8:30-11:00 pm Saturday night (assuming the first half hour is excluded from the nightly average as is common on Saturday).  This is two full rating points behind the […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  FOX’s THE GIFTED and LETHAL WEAPON held their 0.1 bumps, but the rerun of THE FLASH lost 0.1 in final numbers.  After adjustment, election coverage left NBC on top at 1.3, with ABC at 1.2 and CBS at 0.8.           Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  LAST MAN STANDING gained 0.1 in final numbers, but both MACGYVER and THE EXORCIST lost the same, putting the latter at a scary 0.6.  In addition, all CW’s shows were down, the new and rerun MASTERS OF ILLUSION by 0.1, and the rerun PENN & TELLER: FOOL US by […]