NETWORK FINALS:  THE FLASH and BIG BROTHER: CELEBRITY EDITION gained 0.1 in final numbers, while THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT lost the same.        Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  History’s CURSE OF OAK ISLAND led Tuesday cable, up 0.09 to 0.83, with lead-out PROJECT BLUE […]

  Some small drops. 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. NBC:  […]

  And after 9 hours of delay, we have… ratings!  Which look pretty much as expected, despite the new Nielsen methodology.  Of course, with a night of reruns and faded specials on almost every network, it’s not clear if we’d recognize a change even if one was there.  Next week will be much more telling. DEMOGRAPHIC […]

Projected weekly network ratings in prime time (based on four days of official nationals and three days of fast nationals).  ABC wins the week, thanks mostly to the Billboard Music Awards, which is up 30% over the 2012 version, making up for declines on the rest of the schedule.  With the finale of American Idol, FOX is […]

  CBS has canceled PARTNERS, and pulled it from the Monday night schedule.  The show, created by the Will & Grace team of Max Mutchnick and David Kohan, never got a grip on much viewership, and was by far the lowest-rated show in the network’s crucial Monday line-up of sitcoms, so this isn’t much of […]

> NBC, taking its successes where it can find them, has renewed GRIMM for a second season.  The show has done solidly on Friday nights, with ratings in the mid-1s that often win the hour, so it was never in any danger of being cancelled–the question for next season is whether NBC feels confident enough […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  There were no changes from the preliminary Friday ratings.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  A&E’s LIVE PD was at the top of Friday cable, down 0.02 to 0.47, with the lead-in hour down 0.03 to 0.21.  On VH1, RUPAUL’S DRAG […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  All remained as originally reported on the network side. Ratings in key demos for the Top 25 original cable telecasts (plus a few other lower-rated but noteworthy programs).  Christmas Eve, as usual, is a lonely night for original programming.  More interesting programming days (Thursday December 25-Sunday December 28) will be available throughout […]