There was no curtain call for Smash.   NBC:  SMASH‘s 2-hour exit was an ignominious one.  Although its 0.5 was up 0.1 from its last Saturday airing, it was very nearly the lowest-rated show on a low-rated holiday weekend night, edged out only by a Good Wife rerun on CBS.  Smash barely managed to […]

Broadcast news and late night series ratings available below for this week and the same week last year. You can also search for other available weeks with the link at the bottom of this post. Week 43: October 17-23, 2022 Broadcast News: Current Week Broadcast News: Same Week Last Year   Broadcast Late Night: Current […]

  THE BACHELORETTE topped THE VOICE. 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). Ratings analysis and comparisons […]

Projected weekly network ratings in prime time (based on four days of official nationals and three days of fast nationals).  ABC wins another week, thanks to three NBA Finals games on Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday.  ABC is down 11% over the same week last year, however, which also featured three NBA Finals games.  NBC continues […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  CBS wasn’t hurt as much by the football adjustments as it might have been:  THE BIG BANG THEORY lost 0.1 to 3.9, MOM dropped 0.2 to 2.6 (still up 0.6 from last week), 2 1/2 MEN lost 0.2 to 2.3 (still up 0.4), THE MCCARTHYS also fell 0.2 to 1.8 (still up […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  THE CROSSING’s premiere got worse in finals, down 0.1.          Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  TBS’s coverage of the NCAA TOURNAMENT CHAMPIONSHIP game dominated the night at 4.09, with local announcer simulcasts on TNT (0.55) and Tru (0.19); the resulting 4.83 […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  ABC’s coverage of the NFL DRAFT adjusted to 1.05, which compared to a final 1.4 for the broadcast portion in 2020.  In addition, there were significant adjustments (to the next tenth) for both episodes of MANIFEST.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE […]

The Grammys were big–but not as big as last year’s. CBS:  The 2013 GRAMMY AWARDS had a 10.1 rating, completely dominating the night.  However, that was steeply down from last year’s 14.1 (which may have been partly the result of Whitney Houston’s sudden death before the ceremony). ABC:  It’s not clear why ABC chose to […]