The GRAMMYS weren’t quite as tuneful as last year. 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 […]

  The conventions are over, and TV’s summer Fridays are as dull as ever. 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 […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  BIG BROTHER gained 0.1 in final numbers.  (Footnote:  after EXTANT sets its series low 0.6 this morning, CBS announced that beginning next week, it will move to 9PM with BIG BROTHER as its lead-in, rather than following a CRIMINAL MINDS rerun.)  MASTERCHEF also received an 0.1 bump, as did the rerun of SUPERNATURAL. CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:   A&E’s […]

Last night ABC dominated primetime with a preliminary 4.4 adult 18-49 rating for Notre Dame at USC.  The convincing victory for the Fighting Irish sealed a perfect 12-0 undefeated season and reserved a spot in the national championship game in January.  The game’s rating will go up to around a 5.1 in the official nationals […]

  Little to be GLEEful about. FOX:  Despite a major episode that included NY auditions for 2 of the characters that the season had been building to (as well as, this being GLEE, a musical spousal abuse subplot, and a rock version of “The Rain In Spain”) Glee fell once again to a 2.4, tying […]

> You couldn’t ask for a better example of the way in which HBO is different from all other networks–even other pay-cable networks–than its decision today to cancel BORED TO DEATH, HUNG and HOW TO MAKE IT IN AMERICA, while renewing ENLIGHTENED.  While none of the shows were hits, even by pay-cable standards, all 3 […]

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). ###

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  After a rerun of THE CONNERS at 0.31, THE GOLDBERGS was steady at 0.34, ABBOTT ELEMENTARY gained 0.08 to 0.53, NOT DEAD YET dropped 0.05 to 0.26, and A MILLION LITTLE THINGS held at 0.21. CBS:  SURVIVOR remained at 0.71.  Following a rerun at 0.21, TRUE LIES held at 0.23. NBC:  […]