AMERICAN IDOL continued to fade, this time without Sunday’s excuse. 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 […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION coverage went up on all the networks: by 0.2 to 1.1 on NBC, by 0.1 to 0.9 on ABC, and by 0.1 to 0.8 on CBS.  In addition, the 8PM episode of HOME FREE gained 0.1, while HOLLYWOOD GAME NIGHT and the LEGENDS OF TOMORROW rerun […]

> Disclaimer:  Network pilots now in circulation are not necessarily in the form that will air in the Fall.  Pilots are often reedited and rescored, and in some cases even recast or reshot.  So these critiques shouldn’t be taken as full TV pilot reviews, but rather as a guide to the general style and content […]

Live awards shows have been surging in the DVR age, and last night it happened again. ABC:  The BILLBOARD MUSIC AWARDS blew away the competition with a 3.6 (peaking at 3.9 in the 9-9:30PM half-hour), the show’s highest rating in 10 years and up a huge 1.2 from last year.  Before that, the season finale […]

> CBS aired a schedule of repeats last night, potentially throwing some viewers up in the air to sample reality on ABC and NBC.  In fact, The Voice and especially Dancing with the Stars were down from last week.  And certainly no viewers rushed to check out Alcatraz on its final night.  Two final episodes […]

  Currently TBD on the FOX schedule is US & THEM, an adaptation of the well-liked British comedy Gavin & Stacey.  It stars the also well-liked Jason Ritter and Alexis Bledel as co-workers from different branches of the same company who finally meet and have to overcome the challenge of their wildly eccentric parents and […]

Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday December 31, 2018 through Sunday January 6, 2019.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 300K P2+ live+same day).  Programs are grouped by sport and ranked within each sport by P2+ audience size. For comparison, here is the similar chart for the […]

The Christmas and New Year’s holidays will cause delays for daily national ratings (live+same day cable and broadcast) for several days.  This is how the ratings should roll out the next two weeks. Thursday 12/24 nationals available Monday 12/28 afternoon Friday 12/25 nationals available Tuesday 12/29 morning Saturday 12/26 nationals available Wednesday 12/30 morning Sunday 12/27 […]