On a mostly subdued night, THE MASKED SINGER was even more dominant. 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 […]

  BROADCAST FINALS: ABC:  THE GOLDBERGS dropped 0.15 to 0.55, THE WONDER YEARS similarly fell 0.17 to 0.50, THE CONNERS lost 0.14 to 0.51, and HOME ECONOMICS was down 0.05 to 0.36.  A MILLION LITTLE THINGS reversed the trend, up 0.02 to 0.31. CBS:  SURVIVOR dipped 0.06 to 1.00, and the season finale of BIG […]

The top cable programs of the week that competed against the early nights of the London Summer Olympics (True Blood on HBO Sunday, Keeping Up with the Kardashians on E! Sunday, VH1’s Love and Hip Hop Atlanta on Monday) were close to their normal levels, with the Kardashians slightly above normal.  Even with a 10 or 11 rating on a broadcast network, […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  There were no changes at all from this morning’s numbers. CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  On a night dotted with premieres, Discovery’s THE DEADLIEST CATCH retained its cable lead, up 0.23 from last week to 1.20, with lead-out SONS OF WINTER up 0.03 to 0.47.  On ABCFamily, PRETTY LITTLE LIARS returned at 1.06, down just 0.05 from the June […]

  Only one show on network TV last night topped a 2 rating. NBC:  AMERICA’S GOT TALENT was the dominant winner of the night with a 2.6, although that was down from its previous airings when it shared the night with The Voice.  Last night it was preceded by OFF THEIR ROCKERS, which had the […]

  Only Republicans could be pleased with last night’s network TV. 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 […]

  Starz has been exceptionally tolerant of ratings that other networks might find discouraging, and without even waiting to see how DA VINCI’S DEMONS will perform without a Spartacus lead-in, the network has already ordered a Season 2.  This is in keeping with renewals for Boss and Magic City after slow starts; the former didn’t […]

>Week to week increases were evident last night!  In a break from a seemingly endless four-network death spiral, NBC Tuesday showed some impressive signs last night, with all three reality shows up from last week and the network matching the year ago nightly rating.  In this environment, flat is up for any network.  Glee returned […]