Basketball, as always, beat Broadway last night. ABC:  Per Mitch Metcalf:  we have adjusted the 4.6 fast national adult 18-49 rating for NBA FINALS GAME 2  to an estimated 5.4 rating.  However, the 5.4 would still be 17% below the Sunday night game last year (on June 17), a similar decline to Game 1 on […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  Reruns at 0.42/0.30/0.26/0.27/0.22. CBS:  THE PRICE IS RIGHT AT NIGHT rose 0.11 to 0.64, LINGO gained 0.09 to 0.47, and TOUGH AS NAILS was up 0.07 to 0.34. NBC:  Reruns at 0.35/0.32/0.34. FOX:  NAME THAT TUNE ticked down to 0.35, and SPECIAL FORCES ticked up to 0.33. CW:  Reruns at 0.10/0.05. […]

  BROADCAST FINALS:  ABC’s NBA tripleheader was at 0.51/0.68/1.09.  NBC’s SNL tumbled 0.29 to 0.69.  FOX’s COLLEGE BASKETBALL was at 0.17.  CW’s WORLD’S FUNNIEST ANIMALS was up 0.02 to 0.06.   Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  ESPN’s COLLEGE BASKETBALL dominated Saturday cable at 0.45/0.31/0.27/0.26/0.26.  Reelz’s ON PATROL ticked down to 0.15.  […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  OLYMPICS coverage gained 0.3 in final numbers to 3.8.  Elsewhere, NFL Preseason games made for lots of changes.  On ABC, the LAST MAN STANDING, DR KEN and 20/20 reruns were all down 0.2, and BOSTON EMS fell 0.3.  On CBS, the final burned-off RUSH HOUR episode dropped 0.2, and […]

      NETWORK FINALS:  NCIS gained 0.1 in final numbers, tying it with BULL as CBS’s highest-rated show of the night.  The BROOKLYN NINE-NINE premiere also rose 0.1.  In terms of quarter-hour tracks, BULL was admirably steady, dropping just 0.1 at the half-hour point.  THIS IS US was more front-loaded due to its big […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  MACGYVER and both episodes of WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY lost 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE NOTE:  Because so many people have asked, note that we have no ratings at all for the Pursuit service, including for […]

> The news was mostly good for the networks last night–except for the one show whose news was fatal. FOX:  If anything, FOX seems to have been the victim of its own hype this fall.  Like The X-Factor, TERRA NOVA is looking like a solid hit–just not the blockbuster the network foretold.  Its 100% retention […]

> Some shows find their creative voices during the course of their first season–but even after a super-sized order of 24 episodes that ended last night, UP ALL NIGHT is still floundering. On paper, Up All Night seemed to have everything going for it.  Its Executive Producer/godfather was Lorne Michaels, and it was created by […]