None of the night’s returns livened things up. 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 […]

>Put ABC’s Suburgatory in the conditional win column, while Revenge is on a watch list to see where it settles.  FOX’s The X Factor suffered a decline in week two, but the Simon Cowell performance show still powered FOX to a victory on the second Wednesday of the season.  CBS was down a bit at […]

  NETWORK SCORECARD:  BIG BROTHER gained an additional 0.1 in final numbers. THURSDAY CABLE:  FX fared better than USA in their dual launches last night.  MARRIED premiered at a healthy 0.65 (although that was below the 0.76 for FX’s movie lead-in), and did particularly well with advertiser-prized Men 18-34 (1.1).  YOU’RE THE WORST was weaker […]

    BROADCAST HIGHLIGHTS: ABC:  Reruns at 0.20-0.37. CBS:  BIG BROTHER dipped 0.02 to 0.99, followed by reruns at 0.23-0.32. NBC:  BROOKLYN NINE-NINE was at 0.40/0.33 compared to last week’s 0.40/0.28.  The season finale of MAKING IT grew by a tenth to 0.33.  A LAW & ORDER: ORGANIZED CRIME rerun ended the night at 0.22. […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  BLACK-ISH gained 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  USA’s WWE SMACKDOWN, soon to move to FOX, led Tuesday cable, up 0.04 to 0.67, followed by a “sneak peek” of the TREADSTONE pilot at 0.26.  Bravo’s REAL HOUSEWIVES OF […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  The CARD SHARKS rerun gained 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  A&E’s LIVE PD led Saturday cable, up 0.02 to 0.62.  ESPN’s UFC FIGHT NIGHT was at 0.37.  Adult Swim’s line-up performed as follows:   DRAGON BALL at 0.33 and […]

  Last night’s numbers were generally slightly up from last Tuesday, but still minimal. NBC:  AMERICA’S GOT TALENT rose 0.1 to 2.5, enough to win the night.  Similarly, a new episode of OFF THEIR ROCKERS was up 0.1 to 1.0–although that was just slightly above the 0.9 a rerun got in the preceding half-hour. ABC:  […]

  NBC was desperate to get Michael J. Fox back on its air, so much so that it ordered 22 episodes of his series before a pilot had even been produced.  But viewers had much less interest in Fox’s return, especially in what turned out to be such a pedestrian vehicle, and the show’s only […]