NETWORK UPDATE:  NCIS: NEW ORLEANS gained 0.1 in final numbers.  Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  The REPUBLICAN DEBATES continue to be the hottest shows on television that don’t feature a football, zombies, or the Lyon clan.  CNN’s coverage gave the network a huge 3.84 rating, with over 18M […]

Ratings for the Top 25 original cable telecasts Sunday (plus a few other lower-rated but noteworthy programs): Being Tyler Posey MTV 10:00 pm 0.19 P18-49, 0.45 F12-34, 0.25 P18-34, 0.12 P25-54, 0.00 M50+, 420,000 P2+ Ratings for the Top 25 original cable telecasts Saturday: The Brittany Murphy Story Lifetime 8:00 pm 0.64 P18-49, 0.75 F12-34, […]

  Some farewells. 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 and comparisons follow the chart. ABC:  DANCING […]

  We’re continuing our survey of the fall primetime schedule (our merry band includes former head of NBC Scheduling Mitch Metcalf, former head of NBC Current Programming Ted Frank and myself) with Thursdays, when CBS will finally do what people have been expecting for the past several seasons and expand to a 4-sitcom night.  (Here […]

    Even by CW standards–and this is a network where shows that could barely hold a slot in basic cable get renewed–THE LA COMPLEX is a clear flop, watched by about  2/10 of 1% of the 18-49 year old audience and less than half a million people in total. So although it’s been reported […]

  BROADCAST FINALS:  ABC’s NBA PLAYOFFS game was dominant at 2.11.  NBC’s USFL game was at 0.19, and the season finale of SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE was steady at 0.81.  FOX’s MLS match was at 0.11.  CW’s originals were at 0.06/0.09.   Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Sports led the day, with […]

>From time to time, we will check in with the cable networks to see what programs are resonating with the audience.  HBO’s True Blood and History’s Pawn Stars would be considered summer hits on any network.  True Blood is especially impressive since HBO is available in only a small minority of US television homes.  And the […]

  Did moving The Good Wife and Revenge away from one another for a night help both shows? CBS:  The afternoon NFL overrun pushed the night’s schedule by an entire hour in most of the country, kicking The Mentalist out of primetime.  The effect was interesting, not because of the giant push football gave 60 […]