>ShowBuzzDaily’s PROMO WATCH, our weekly look at how the networks spend their precious resource of on-air promotion time, will move to Wednesdays starting next week.  This will give us a better chance to see how each week is shaping up and what priorities might be shifting in the coming week or two.   The next complete […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  STATION 19 gained 0.03 to 0.42, and a 2-hour GREY’S ANATOMY was down 0.03 to 0.38. CBS:  Returning from a rerun week, YOUNG SHELDON fell 0.11 to 0.47, GHOSTS dropped 0.08 to 0.47, SO HELP ME TODD climbed 0.03 to 0.34, and CSI: VEGAS ticked up to 0.29. NBC:  Reruns at […]

DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary live+same day 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). PREVIOUS SATURDAY NETWORK SCORECARDS (FAST NATIONALS) PREVIOUS SATURDAY CABLE & […]

> Last night, of course, was not intended to be the end of LUCK.  The enormously high-profile show, created by David Milch and with production supervised by pilot director Michael Mann, and fearuring a cast headed by Dustin Hoffman and Nick Nolte, had already been renewed for a second season, with one of those instant […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  The last time AMERICA’S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS aired 2 weeks ago, it had an NFL Playoffs game as lead-in, so the 0.17 drop to 0.49 has an explanation.  AMERICAN IDOL gained 0.03 to 0.77, and the season finale of THE COMPANY YOU KEEP was steady at 0.25. CBS:  60 MINUTES climbed […]

> The sex jokes may have diminished over at Whitney, but they’re in full force on ARE YOU THERE, CHELSEA?.  In the first few minutes of tonight’s season finale, Chelsea (Laura Prepon) told her friends about a trip to Atlantic City:  “I got penetrated by a guy who made salt-water taffy.”  This was followed by […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  JEOPARDY MASTERS gained 0.05 to 0.59, JUDGE STEVE HARVEY ticked down to 0.27, and a rerun followed at 0.22. CBS:  The FBI franchise included the mothership up 0.04 to 0.45, FBI: INTERNATIONAL up 0.06 to 0.40, and FBI: MOST WANTED up 0.03 to 0.37. NBC:  After reruns at 0.21/0.19, THE WALL […]

> FRINGE needs another timeline. FOX: FRINGE fell back to a 1.0, which looks even worse because Grimm was up this week, making last week’s tie a dim memory. Still, these aren’t very different from the numbers that got the show renewed last season, so it’s not dead yet. THE FINDER, on the other hand, […]