There was no curtain call for Smash.   NBC:  SMASH‘s 2-hour exit was an ignominious one.  Although its 0.5 was up 0.1 from its last Saturday airing, it was very nearly the lowest-rated show on a low-rated holiday weekend night, edged out only by a Good Wife rerun on CBS.  Smash barely managed to […]

  Because of the holidays, all numbers other than morning network ratings are coming in a day late, so this post combines last night’s network with Wednesday’s cable results. WEDNESDAY CABLE TBS was the unquestioned cable king of Christmas, with every one of the day and night’s Top 10 telecasts airing on the network.  4 […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  Reruns at 0.45/0.36/0.43/0.34. CBS:  Reruns at 0.39/0.36/0.25/0.20. NBC:  Reruns at 0.37/0.26/0.26. FOX:  Following reruns at 0.15/0.15/0.15, a new DUNCANVILLE was at 0.14 compared to last week’s 0.19/0.20.  A rerun FAMILY GUY followed at 0.15. CW:  A pair of specials:  BLACK PACK at 0.03, and BRANDON LEAKE at 0.02. TELEMUNDO:  CASA DE […]

  The descent of THE X-FILES continued. 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 […]

      NETWORK FINALS:  ABC’s COLLEGE FOOTBALL game adjusted to 1.0 in final numbers, and FOX’s game adjusted to 0.4.           Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart       CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  A typical fall cable Saturday, dominated by sports and late-night animation. ESPN had 3 games in the Top […]

The AUDIENCE MAP feature continues with a look across the cable drama landscape over the past 12 months (June 1, 2o14 to May 20, 2015).  The programs are arranged by network, ranked by overall audience size within each network’s slate.  The audience share for each of 30 gender-age subgroups is noted for each show, with each […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  The PRODIGAL SON rerun lost 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:   The back-to-back premiere of FX’s BREEDERS was at 0.12/0.09.  On AMC, BETTER CALL SAUL climbed 0.05 to 0.32, and the timeslot premiere of DISPATCHES FROM ELSEWHERE […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  All remained as originally reported on the network side. Ratings in key demos for the Top 25 original cable telecasts (plus a few other lower-rated but noteworthy programs).  Christmas Eve, as usual, is a lonely night for original programming.  More interesting programming days (Thursday December 25-Sunday December 28) will be available throughout […]