> OK, now they’re not even trying:  every single show on network TV last night was a repeat. CBS:  Which is exactly how CBS likes it.  Not to rub salt in NBC’s many wounds, but the CBS average last night with reruns (2.1, highlighted by a 2.3 for CRIMINAL MINDS) was just about what NBC […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL adjusted to 5.8, up 0.9 from last week’s game.  In addition, WISDOM OF THE CROWD lost 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  AMC’s THE WALKING DEAD stayed huge, up 0.08 to 3.87, with TALKING […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  The BLACK-ISH and HELL’S KITCHEN reruns lost 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  The Kamala Harris announcement put cable news at the top on Tuesday, with Fox News’s HANNITY at 0.44/0.69/4.6M, CNN’s SITUATION ROOM at 0.32/0.45/2M, and […]

  Football helped all FOX’s shows… except one. 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 […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  Game 4 of the NBA FINALS continued to be consistent at 3.63. CBS:  COME DANCE WITH ME gained 0.02 to 0.20, followed by reruns at 0.17/0.21. NBC:  After a rerun AMERICAN NINJA WARRIOR at 0.23, DATELINE jumped 0.12 to 0.40. FOX:  WWE SMACKDOWN dipped 0.02 to 0.44. CW:  The series finale […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  SHARK TANK went even higher in final Friday numbers, up 0.1 to a new season high 2.3.  However, the entire NBC line-up (which had been preempted in Portland for an NBA playoff game) went down, DATELINE and GRIMM by 0.1 and HANNIBAL (which started at 10:01PM) by 0.2  UNFORGETTABLE was also down […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:   Both the new KNOCK KNOCK LIVE and the SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE clip show went up 0.1 in final numbers.  In addition, the FRESH OFF THE BOAT rerun gained 0.1, but the reruns of THE FLASH and IZOMBIE lost 0.1 each. CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Discovery’s THE DEADLIEST CATCH had the Tuesday cable […]

Without The Voice to support it, Smash started its second season with a ratings trainwreck to match the creative disaster that is the show.  Read Mitch Salem’s review here. Half-hour ratings for network television last night are shown below.  Most notably, Smash started at 1.3 rating with adults 18-49 (already down from its very modest lead-in, Betty White’s 2nd Annual 90th Birthday — […]