BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  Reruns at 0.48/0.39/0.34. CBS:  A run of the movie MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: ROGUE NATION at 0.25. NBC:  AMERICAN NINJA WARRIOR rose 0.13 to 0.43, and WEAKEST LINK was at 0.24. FOX:  STARS ON MARS premiered at 0.24, and the season premiere of CRIME SCENE KITCHEN was at 0.24, down four-tenths from its […]

>Don’t Trust the B- in Apt 23 had an okay second outing last night, while Revenge returned acceptably at best.  American Idol dropped again this week (after a brief bout of stability last Wednesday), but Idol remains comfortably ahead of this week’s The Voice in the weekly singing competition popularity contest.          […]

  Anyone who’s been following the tumult in television, typified by the recently-concluded WGA strike and the ongoing-as-of-this-post SAG-AFTRA strike, knows that a key issue for the industry is that the streamers, who now dominate the programming landscape, keep their metrics deeply opaque.  This is their firm policy not just with their talent, but even […]

> A bad night at the Eye. CBS:  It’s lucky for CBS that one of its May Sweeps Sundays will be filled by the Survivor season finale, because the regular line-up is falling apart.  For no clear reason, the season’s penultimate AMAZING RACE took a 0.4 hit from last week, tying its season low 2.2.  […]

  Not a lot of offerings. 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 follows the […]

    It seems that no amount of violence in GAME OF THRONES will make anyone change the channel.   HBO:  GAME OF THRONES continued its ratings ascension with a gripping episode that could have been called A Tale of Two Beheadings (not to mention some guttings, throat-slittings, a dismemberment, a massacre, and a side […]

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). PREVIOUS SATURDAY NETWORK SCORECARDS (FAST NATIONALS) PREVIOUS SATURDAY CABLE & […]

  Mitch Metcalf and I, along with veteran network executive Ted Frank, have put together our own versions of the schedules (the real ones will be announced at the nework Upfronts in New York next week). We’ve already posted our recommended NBC, FOX and ABC schedules.  CBS will be the last of the major networks […]