Read All Our Fall Pilot Reports here. DADS:  Tuesday 8PM on FOX  – Change the Channel It’s hard to believe that the comedy executives at FOX, who have put such high-quality shows as New Girl, The Mindy Project and Raising Hope on the air in recent years, not to mention the upcoming and very […]

  Another week’s worth of ratings are in, and once again, we ask:  what do we know now that we didn’t know a week ago? NEXT CALLER MUST HAVE BEEN A REALLY, REALLY BAD SHOW.  Last week NBC stopped production on Next Caller, a single-camera sitcom slated for midseason that starred Dane Cook as a […]

  A fairly typical Friday. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary 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 chart. CBS:  MACGYVER […]

  VALOR showed little grace under fire. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary 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 and comparisons follow […]

      Analysis to follow.       Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   Top 50 Original Cable Telecasts with Demographic Detail Top 150 Original Cable Telecasts To search for a show: type Ctrl-F and type your show title in the search box. Top 150 Original Cable Telecasts: Wednesday June 16, 2021 P18-49 P2+ Rank […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  STATION 19 dropped 0.07 to 0.54, GREY’S ANATOMY fell a tenth to 0.51, and BIG SKY was down 0.02 to 0.25. CBS:  The primetime hours of the NCAA TOURNAMENT were at 1.35/1.05/0.83.  That was higher than Night 1 of the 2021 Tournament, although that was a Friday. NBC:  LAW & ORDER […]

  UPDATE:  Lots of adjustments, but none of them over 0.1, with AMERICAN IDOL, THE BIG BANG THEORY, GREY’S ANATOMY, SHARK TANK and COMMUNITY up (narrowly avoiding series lows in some cases), and THE MILLERS and ELEMENTARY down. THURSDAY CABLE:  VIKINGS and PAWN STARS led the way for History once again, at 1.0 and 0.8/1.0 […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  There was nothing extra for DANCING WITH THE STARS in final numbers.  On NBC, while THE VOICE gained 0.1, the adjustment hit to THE NIGHT SHIFT was even worse than anticipated, down 0.2 to a weakening 1.3 (only 0.2 ahead of the rerun NCIS: LA on CBS).  On CW, THE ORIGINALS lost […]