NETWORK UPDATE:  The only change from preliminary numbers was a 0.1 gain for the NASCAR race on FOX. SATURDAY CABLE:  On BBC America, ORPHAN BLACK was up very slightly to 0.25, with follow-up IN THE FLESH barely registering at 0.03.  ESPN dominated the night with a 2.7 for its NBA PLAYOFFS game. SUNDAY CABLE:  […]

  THE NIGHT SHIFT:  Tuesday 10PM on NBC – Change the Channel It’s as though NBC and series creators Jeff Judah and Gabe Sachs (they were among the showrunners of the 90210 reboot, and wrote the first Diary of a Wimpy Kid movie) deliberately set out to make the least distinctive series possible with THE NIGHT […]

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday May 24 and Sunday May 25, 2014. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population.   NBA: Playoffs 4.9 rating ESPN 8:30 pm Saturday Indiana Pacers at Miami Heat Game 3 […]

  The highest rated shows on network television last night had 1.3 ratings. NBC:  The season finale of HANNIBAL is currently at 0.9, matching last week, but it began at 10:01PM and followed a 1.6 for the last half-hour of DATELINE, so that number may come down in final ratings on Monday.  However, it should […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  Only HELL’S KITCHEN and the night’s rerun of MODERN FAMILY found an extra 0.1 in the couch cushions.  THURSDAY CABLE:  With no NBA Playoff games scheduled, it was a quiet night.  The NHL PLAYOFFS on NBC Sports Network were at 0.6.  PAWN STARS (History) was at 0.9/0.9, up 0.1 in the 2d […]

  Here are our night-by-night ratings predictions for the Fall network television season:  Monday,  Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,  Friday, and Sunday Now that we’ve gone through each night’s Fall ratings, let’s pull back and take a look at the big picture for each of the broadcast networks. ABC:  Standing still isn’t necessarily a bad thing in the […]

  The rest of the week:  Monday,  Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. The Saturday primetime network schedule, such as it is, isn’t worth much attention, being a patchwork of reruns and sports (although we will include estimates for that night in our full-week network projections).  That brings us to Sunday, once the showcase night for […]

NETWORK UPDATE:  The season finale of SURVIVOR edged up 0.1 in final numbers, moving it into a tie with AMERICAN IDOL.  (The SURVIVOR post-finale special lost 0.1.)  The season finales of THE MIDDLE and MODERN FAMILY both gained 0.1.  WEDNESDAY CABLE:  TNT’s coverage of the NBA PLAYOFFS was on top at 2.2, with the NHL […]