Updated broadcast and cable rankings for this week and last.
There is, it turns out, an audience for scripted network drama during the summer. CBS: Airing in the dead of network summer, and against what turned out to be the last hour of the NHL Stanley Cup Finals, UNDER THE DOME had a huge 3.2 debut in 18-49s and over 13M viewers, numbers that […]
Read All Our Fall Pilot Reports here. REIGN: Thursday 9PM on CW – Potential DVR Alert The CW is often–and rightly–considered a network of very limited ambitions, with just two modes of operation: rom-com soap and supernatural soap. But its new REIGN, while well fortified with suds, is as big a swing for the […]
A very steady if unexciting night on the networks. FOX: The closest thing to an event in primetime last night was the season finale of HELL’S KITCHEN, which was up a tick from last week to 2.2 (but off 0.2 from last season’s finale, which didn’t air till Sept 2012). ABC: WIPEOUT fell even […]
NETWORK FINALS: The rerun 20/20 gained 0.1 in final numbers. Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart CABLE HIGHLIGHTS: Although drastically down from the games that aired the night before, ESPN’s MLB BASEBALL tripleheader was still strong at 0.36/0.31/0.27. Food Network’s DINERS, DRIVE-INS & DIVES gained […]
The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday August 10 and Sunday August 11, 2013. (The 56 markets out of 210 total cover about 70% of the US television population.) Golf’s fourth and final major championship of the year, the PGA Championship, averaged a 3.7 […]
Monday ratings last night, last year and last week: NBC debuted Million Second Quiz to a 1.7 adult 18-49 rating last night, close to what American Ninja Warrior had been doing in the hour the past few weeks. The show declined slightly from a 1.7 in the 8:00 half hour to a 1.6 at 8:30. […]
A moment of silence for the first black bunting of the new season: giving the lie to its title, the 0.7 rating that LUCKY 7 had in its second airing sealed its doom, making the lottery drama the season’s first fatality. For now, ABC will air reruns of its scorching hit Scandal in that […]