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May 29, 2020
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY THURSDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 5.28.2020

 

A fairly steady night.

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 follow the chart.

ABC:  WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE gained 0.1 to 0.9, and both HOLEY MONEY (0.8) and TO TELL THE TRUTH (0.7) were steady.

CBS:  MAN WITH A PLAN held at 0.6, and BROKE was up 0.1 to 0.6.  The night’s reruns were at 0.6/0.6/0.4.

NBC:  Returning from a week off, COUNCIL OF DADS (0.4) and BLINDSPOT (0.3) were steady.  A rerun SVU was at 0.3.

FOX:  CELEBRITY WATCH PARTY stayed at 0.3, and LABOR OF LOVE was up 0.1 to 0.3.

CW:  BURDEN OF TRUTH (0.1) and IN THE DARK (0.1) were steady.

Tonight’s pandemic-related programming includes CBS’s HAIRCUT NIGHT IN AMERICA.

COMPARISONS TO SIMILAR NIGHTS: Preliminary adult 18-49 live+same day ratings versus the same night last year and same night last week.

CABLE RATINGS: Come back this afternoon for detailed demographic ratings for top Thursday cable programs. Broadcast finals for Thursday will be available Monday morning, the final delay caused by the Memorial Day holiday.

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PREVIOUS THURSDAY CABLE & BROADCAST NATIONALS

NEWS & LATE NIGHT BROADCAST RATINGS

SPORTS RATINGS

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About the Author

Mitch Metcalf
MITCH METCALF has been tracking every US film release of over 500 screens (over 2300 movies and counting) since the storied weekend of May 20, 1994, when Maverick and Beverly Hills Cop 3 inspired countless aficionados to devote their lives to the art of cinema. Prior to that, he studied Politics and Economics at Princeton in order to prepare for his dream of working in television. He has been Head of West Coast Research at ABC, then moved to NBC in 2000 and became Head of Scheduling for 11 years.