NETWORK FINALS:  The entire ABC line-up of SHARK TANK, PRESS YOUR LUCK and CARD SHARKS, as well as NBC’s DATELINE, lost 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  A&E’s LIVE PD led Saturday cable, down 0.04 to 0.58.   Adult Swim’s line-up […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  TAKEN, which doesn’t have much room to spare, fell 0.1 to 1.2 in final numbers (the less-rounded number was 1.21, so it wasn’t all that close).  The rerun of KEVIN CAN WAIT gained 0.1.           Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS: […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  Quite a few adjustments to the next tenth, for SHARK TANK, 20/20, MACGYVER, THE BLACKLIST and WWE SMACKDOWN.          Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  ESPN’s NBA doubleheader was at 0.41/0.29.  Discovery’s GOLD RUSH was at 0.25/0.25/0.12 compared to last week’s 0.20/0.19/0.14.  […]

  Happy New Year to all, as we dust off the last ratings of 2013: ABC:  NEW YEAR’S ROCKIN EVE, aka the Ryan Seacrest New Year’s Eve show, had no trouble disposing of NBC with a 3.7 that more than doubled the competition.  That was, however, down 0.5 from last year.  The late-night portion of […]

  The Sked’s State Of the Network Reports:  NBC and CBS Two good things, and only two, have happened to ABC in 2013.  One is Scandal.  The other is that NBC’s implosion has been so absolute and riveting (and it never stops) that ABC has been in something like a Network Protection Program by comparison. […]

  CW didn’t need to make a lot of changes after a successful (on its terms) season, and it hasn’t.  The network confined its fall moves to 2 nights, opting for stability the rest of the week and keeping 4 additional shows (2 new, 2 returning) for midseason use.  Here are the details: MONDAY:  This […]

  So… how’s it going? We’ve completed 2 full weeks of the 2013-14 broadcast TV season, and while there are still a few arrivals on the way (notably ABC’s Once Upon A Time in Wonderland and the NBC Friday line-up), we’ve seen enough to reach some early conclusions.  Let’s take a look. First, the big […]

NETWORK UPDATE:  The GOLDEN GLOBES only adjusted up to 5.8 in final numbers, down a significant 0.7 from last year.  The football-swollen 60 MINUTES rose 0.3 to 3.9, and THE GOOD WIFE gained a tick to 1.4.  Ratings in key demos for the Top 25 original cable telecasts (plus a few other lower-rated but noteworthy […]