BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  The special TRUTH & LIES was at 0.49, followed by a rerun of the PROMISED LAND pilot at 0.18. CBS:  YOUNG SHELDON fell a tenth to 0.73, and UNITED STATES OF AL ticked up to 0.54.  A pair of B POSITIVE episodes were at 0.50/0.46 compared to last week’s 0.50.  BULL […]

NBC crashed back into fourth place, after last week’s dream-like two-hour Voice episode.  This week the regular schedule came back with one change — the return of Whitney in place of the dismal Animal Practice (ratings are still almost as bad at 8 pm and see Mitch Salem’s review here).  Chicago Fire also came crashing back to reality — last […]

    NBC and FOX kick off next week’s parade of network Upfronts on Monday, and now FOX has joined NBC in releasing the titles of at least some of its 2012/13 season pick-ups.  Unlike NBC, which has dribbled out its information over the past couple of days, FOX has issued 5 orders at once, […]

  THE MIDDLE had a fair send-off. 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 […]

  Mondays seem to be settling into place. 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 […]

  A generally up night compared to Memorial Day. 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 […]

  Version 2.0 of CBS’s new Monday didn’t accomplish much. 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 […]

  MONDAY AFTERNOON UPDATE:  FOX has issued post-SUPER BOWL ratings for 24: LEGACY, which had a 6.1 18-49 rating and 17.6M total P2+ viewers.  In any other context, of course, those would be massive numbers.  But compared to other post-Super Bowl programming, they’re rather mild.  Last year’s LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT, which started only […]