NETWORK UPDATE:  As expected, ABC adjusted downward when its local football simulcasts were removed, with DANCING WITH THE STARS at 1.8 (down 0.4 from last week) and the season premiere of CASTLE at 2.2, the same as last season’s premiere.  Both the new episode of THE BIG BANG THEORY and SCORPION gained 0.1 in […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  SHARK TANK lost 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Cable news was led by Fox News’s SPECIAL REPORT WITH BRET BAIER at 0.54/0.86/5.5M, with CNN’s SITUATION ROOM at 0.49/0.67/2.5M, and MSNBC’s RACHEL MADDOW SHOW at 0.27/0.40/3M.  Discovery’s […]

Chart updated with persons 2+ audience for the National Championship on Monday April 6, 2015: Telecast 67: CBS Monday 9:18 pm #1-Duke 68 #1-Wisconsin 63 (Tied 31-31 at half) CBS struck gold Monday night with an average audience of 28,263,000 persons 2+ for the game, up sharply from 21,325,000 in 2014, 23,426,000 in 2013 and 20,869,000 in 2012.  Demographically, the […]

More grim news for ABC and NBC. ABC:  After ONCE UPON A TIME set the tone with a series-low 2.1, down 0.3 from its last airing, RED WIDOW had a disastrous 2-hour debut at 1.4.  That ended ABC’s chance to launch any successful dramas this season (it still has one comedy on deck), and made […]

>Friday patterns are really set in stone.  CBS won another Friday with a 1.6 rating (same as last week) with three pricey scripted dramas:  A Gifted Man (1.3 rating, up 0.1 from last week), CSI: NY (1.7, up 0.1) and Blue Bloods (1.7, down 0.2). FOX was #2 on the night with a 1.3 rating (down […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  PENN & TELLER: FOOL US dropped 0.1 in final numbers.          Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  A&E’s LIVE PD narrowly led Friday cable, up 0.02 to 0.58, with the pre-show hour up 0.03 to 0.31.  Discovery’s GOLD RUSH was at 0.57/0.40, […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  NBC’s NASCAR coverage adjusted up 0.1 in final numbers.  On CBS, BIG BROTHER gained 0.1 and the CSI: CYBER rerun lost the same.  BACHELOR IN PARADISE notched an extra 0.1.  CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Both AMC and HBO took the holiday weekend off, making for some unusual appearances at the top of Sunday’s list.  The season […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  JUDGE STEVE HARVEY dropped 0.05 to 0.27, and THE WONDER YEARS was down 0.04 to 0.21.  Reruns followed at 0.17/0.18. CBS:  eruns at 0.44/0.48/0.23. NBC:  LA FIRE & RESCUE lost 0.04 to 0.25, followed by reruns at 0.16/0.15. FOX:  Reruns at 0.23/0.17. CW:  NANCY DREW was steady at 0.03, and RIVERDALE […]