BROADCAST FINALS ABC: STATION 19 rose 0.08 to 0.50, and GREY’S ANATOMY was up 0.05 to 0.43. A rerun followed at 0.17. CBS: Reruns at 0.33/0.26/0.21/0.16. NBC: Reruns at 0.30/0.28/0.23. FOX: NEXT LEVEL CHEF rose 0.04 to 0.40, and ANIMAL CONTROL ticked up to 0.21, followed by a rerun at 0.12. CW: Reruns at […]
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). PREVIOUS SATURDAY NETWORK SCORECARDS (FAST NATIONALS) PREVIOUS SATURDAY CABLE & […]
> LUCK – Sundays 9PM on HBO starting January 29 – Potential DVR Alert The TV auteur David Milch got rich by co-creating (with Steven Bochco) NYPD Blue, but he’s probably most beloved for creating Deadwood. Deadwood, while never a giant hit–it ran only 36 episodes on HBO, and never had a proper ending–was a […]
BROADCAST FINALS ABC: With a big 2.48 lead-in from an afternoon NBA PLAYOFFS game, AMERICA’S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS jumped 0.24 to 0.73, and AMERICAN IDOL was up 0.15 to 0.92. A SUPERSTAR special was at 0.32. CBS: 60 MINUTES dropped 0.06 to 0.42, THE EQUALIZER slipped 0.02 to 0.40, the series finale of EAST […]
> Thursday night brought a mother lode of returning serialized dramas to broadcast TV, with both ABC and CW returning to duty. Let’s start by looking at ABC’s 10PM PRIVATE PRACTICE, airing a fresh episode for the first time since a 2-hour special on November 17. WHERE WE LEFT OFF: As usual, there was all […]
Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday June 5 through Sunday June 11, 2023. Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 100K Persons 2+ live+same day). Programs are grouped by sport and ranked within each sport by P2+ audience size. Here is the same week last year […]
> Football is like crack for TV networks. FOX: The NY Giants/Green Bay playoff game was massive, and since it ran until 8:12PM on the east coast, the giant SIMPSONS number, currently a 6.8, will end up adjusted. Given the atypically huge lead-in for the evening and the adjustments, it’s hard to tell just how […]
> A lot can happen between the creation of a TV pilot in the spring and production of episodes for the regular season: a writing/producing team is hired, audience focus groups weigh in, networks and studios (which may have had their own turnover in the off-season) give plenty of notes, both helpful and otherwise, and […]