Another sleepy Sunday for shows that didn’t have NFL help. 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 […]

Two networks competed last night, FOX and NBC, each ending with a preliminary 2.2 Adult 18-49 rating in prime time. FOX‘s Gordon Ramsay cooking combo of Hell’s Kitchen and MasterChef each averaged a 2.2 rating.  The Tuesday tracks for the reality pairing since June 5: Hell’s Kitchen (2.1– 2.2– 2.2– 2.2) and MasterChef (2.2– 2.1– 2.1– 2.2).  It doesn’t get more consistent than […]

> This season there are 289.7 million viewers living in 114.7 million TV households in the United States, as estimated by Nielsen.  If you believe these yearly estimates (and you must if you want to trust the ratings each morning), there are five million fewer people living in one million fewer homes than there were […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  With football adjusted out, THE VOICE and STATE OF AFFAIRS each lost 0.1 in final numbers.  That pushed STATE to a new low 1.5, and ominously, it was at 1.3 by its last 15 minutes.  Football also resulted in THE GREAT CHRISTMAS LIGHT FIGHT and the CASTLE rerun on ABC losing 0.1 […]

> On cable this past week, NFL football was again the top-rated program, and Jersey Shore was in second place, as usual.  But tying for second was the Comedy Central Roast of Charlie Sheen, which aired 30 minutes after the first Sheen-less Two and a Half Men was broadcast.  Even the repeat of the Roast […]

  Read All Our Fall Pilot Reports here. THE GOLDBERGS:  Tuesday 9PM on ABC – Change the Channel THE GOLDBERGS is startlingly bad.  ABC’s most highly-touted new sitcom of the fall is inspired by series creator Adam F. Goldberg’s memories of growing up in the 1980s, and fragments of his own home videotapes at the […]

Olympics minus 1. ABC:  Possibly in the belief that its activities qualified for Olympic medals, viewers thronged to WIPEOUT, giving it a 2.2 that was up 0.5 from last week.  ROOKIE BLUE was also up a bit to 1.5, winning its hour, and ABC took the night. CBS:  The night fell apart at 10PM, when […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  The STANLEY CUP FINALS game adjusted up to 1.7 in final numbers.  The only other change was a 0.1 drop for the ODD COUPLE rerun.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Sports led on Thursday cable as well, as Univision’s Mexico […]