Fair results from the night’s newcomers. 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 […]

> Without the train-wreck possibilities of the previous week’s Lindsay Lohan event, SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE‘s ratings last night were down about 20%.  That’s a bit below the season average, suggesting Hill, despite his breakout Moneyball success, still isn’t a household name, but the 2.6 in 18-49s was still more than double the rating for any […]

  BROADCAST FINALS: ABC:  A 3-hour BACHELOR IN PARADISE was down a tenth to 0.77 compared to last week’s 2-hour episode. CBS:  FBI dipped 0.04 to 0.68, FBI INTERNATIONAL switched into the 9PM slot and lost 0.07 to 0.52, and FBI MOST WANTED dropped 0.12 to 0.54. NBC:  THE VOICE was down 0.14 from last […]

      NETWORK FINALS:  QUANTICO lost 0.1 in final numbers, and the BIG BANG THEORY rerun gained the same.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart       CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  USA’s WWE telecast had a strong night at 1.39/1.36/1.35, above last week’s 1.26/1.20/1.15.  VH1 had a tougher evening, as LOVE […]

    NETWORK UPDATE:  SUPER BOWL 50 adjusted to 37.7 in final numbers, a gigantic number but not the equal of last year’s 39.1.  LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT ended up at 7.7 for a show that began at 10:54PM ET and ended at 12:02AM.  That compared to last year’s 8.4 for the post-Super Bowl […]

  More bad news than good. 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 […]

> FOX made a couple of fairly last-minute changes to its midseason plans today.  The new TOUCH, created by Tim Kring and starring Kiefer Sutherland, won’t move to Sutherland’s old 24 Monday 9PM timeslot after all; instead, starting March 22, Touch will air Thursdays at 9PM, keeping the AMERICAN IDOL lead-in it had for the […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  Reruns at 0.36/0.31/0.27. CBS:  Reruns at 0.23/0.19/0.17. NBC:  AMERICAN NINJA WARRIOR returned at 0.30, followed by a rerun at 0.21. FOX:  A NASCAR race in the afternoon at 0.52 was followed by primetime reruns at 0.16/0.14. CW:  Although a few legacy shows will air into the summer, the new administration took […]