NOTE:  Season To Date and Network Week-to-Week Charts Are Below With today’s CW announcement that THE ORIGINALS, REIGN and THE TOMORROW PEOPLE have received full back orders, we know where we are with just about all this season’s fall premieres.  (HOSTAGES, BETRAYAL and ONCE UPON A TIME IN WONDERLAND, all technically “short season” shows, […]

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday November 9 and Sunday November 10, 2013. (The 56 markets out of 210 total cover about 70% of the US television population.)   College Football Week 11: Top National Games on Saturday 6.9 rating 8:00 CBS #13-LSU at #1-Alabama […]

  NBC’s undead are starting to look like corpses. NBC:  Just 3 weeks into its season, GRIMM is down to 1.3, already as low as the show scored all last spring.  That’s down half a point from its season debut 2 weeks ago, and down 0.2 from last week.  It was in 3rd place at […]

  It’s entirely possible that SEAN SAVES THE WORLD will never again hit the 1.4 rating it had last night (at least not unless NBC gives it The Voice as a lead-in again), so the network seized the opportunity of a less-horrible rating to announce a reduced back-order of 5 additional episodes.  As with the […]

  AFTERNOON UPDATE:  With the NFL game factored out, the entire NBC line-up fell.  THE VOICE dropped 0.2 to 2.5, SEAN SAVES THE WORLD by 0.3 to 1.4, and THE MICHAEL J. FOX SHOW by 0.3 to a dire 1.0.  PARENTHOOD fell 0.2 to 1.3.  Meanwhile, THE VAMPIRE DIARIES rose 0.1 to a sterling 1.3 (but […]

Last night’s CMA Awards were a huge hit for ABC, but because the last two Wednesdays featured World Series games, the other networks (except for FOX, of course) were already down–the better comparison is to three weeks ago. ABC:  Moving from Thursday to Wednesday was the charm for THE CMA AWARDS, which zoomed 24% from […]

  AFTERNOON UPDATE:  TROPHY WIFE became even more disastrous in final numbers, falling to a 1.1, which makes it one of the lowest-rated in-season, non-Friday series ever to get a back order.  It’s hard to imagine ABC keeping it where it is for the remainder of the season.  The only other afternoon change was a […]

  AMC:  World Series, no World Series, THE WALKING DEAD really doesn’t care.  It was again the highest-rated show in all of primetime last week, network or cable, with a giant 6.8 rating–and that doesn’t count the additional 1.2 for the 11PM rerun.  TALKING DEAD was the second-highest cable show of the night with 2.3, […]