WAYWARD PINES:  Midseason TBD on FOX THE FACTS:  M. Night Shyamalan is the marquee producer of this neo-Twin Peaks-ian limited series.  (He also directed the pilot.)  It concerns Secret Service agent Ethan Burke, who travels to the small, strange town of Wayward Pines in search of two missing agents.  The people he encounters there […]

  We’re continuing with our 18-49 ratings predictions for the fall 2014 TV season.  As before, these predictions cover September 22 (the official start of the new season ) through December 7, and our views on the new series are based on looks at the trailers released last week.  We’ve already surveyed the fall’s Big […]

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday June 7 and Sunday June 8, 2014. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population.   Horse Racing: Triple Crown Belmont Stakes (Saturday) 4.0 rating NBC 4:30-5:00 pm (+190% from 2.1 […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  MOTIVE crept up 0.1 to 0.8. WEDNESDAY CABLE:  The fall of DUCK DYNASTY (A&E) hasn’t reached bottom, as the show crumbled another 0.3 to 1.2, below FAMILY GUY and BIG BANG THEORY reruns.  Its companion show BIG SMO fell 0.1 to 0.7.  CATFISH (MTV) dropped 0.1 to 0.9.  On USA, SUITS and […]

Monday preliminary broadcast ratings. In addition to the traditional adult 18-49 ratings grids below (for last night, the same night last year and same night a week ag0), today we are introducing a new chart with even more ratings detail for each program last night, including other important demographic segments and total viewers. NEW SECTION […]

  As we’ve noted before, we’ll mostly be taking a break from reporting Friday ratings until the fall season begins, but this past Friday had an arrival worth making an exception:  the premiere of Cinemax’s THE KNICK.  That show, despite the participation of director Steven Soderbergh and star Clive Owen, was designed more to draw prestige […]

  Maybe airing the Emmys on a Monday wasn’t such a great idea. NBC:  THE EMMY AWARDS, airing on a weeknight for the first time in decades, fell 0.5 from last year in preliminary numbers to 3.8.  (It’s currently down 1.1 from last year’s final numbers, but this year’s show should go up as well […]

        BROADCAST HIGHLIGHTS: ABC:  The line-up declined:  HOLEY MOLEY by 0.04 to 0.40, WHEN NATURE CALLS by 0.04 to 0.20, and THE HUSTLER by a tick to 0.25.  CBS:  BIG BROTHER rose 0.09 to 1.01.  Reruns followed at 0.20-0.36. NBC:  BROOKLYN NINE-NINE was at 0.40/0.28 compared to last week’s premiere 0.39/0.32.  MAKING […]