UTOPIA: Tuesday 8PM and Friday 9PM on FOX THE FACTS: Based on a Dutch format and produced by unscripted specialist John de Mol, UTOPIA is a reality show that puts 15 people into an isolated area for an entire year and forces them to make up their own rules for their new “civilization.” Viewers […]
NETWORK UPDATE: Time-zone adjusted numbers for Game 1 of THE NBA FINALS increased to 6.0, 0.3 above last year’s Game 1. However, those same adjustments reduced the primetime JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE by a full point to 1.1, and the NBA COUNTDOWN pre-game show by 0.8 to 2.0. In addition, HELL’S KITCHEN went up 0.1 […]
NETWORK UPDATE: No changes at all. TUESDAY CABLE: Despite weeks of hype, TYRANT didn’t have much of a launch for FX with 0.6 (subsequent re-airings added 0.3 and 0.15)–and given its quality issues and lack of critical support, its arrow may not be pointing up. USA’s plight continues, with the season premiere of COVERT […]
NETWORK UPDATE: RISING STAR and WIPEOUT swapped 0.1s, with RISING STAR on the low end–in fact, it was ABC’s lowest-rated original show of the night. On CBS, BIG BROTHER went up even higher to 2.2, but RECKLESS was pathetic, down another 0.1 to 0.5. SUNDAY CABLE: THE STRAIN, FX’s first entry into the world […]
Here are the weekend sports ratings for Saturday and Sunday November 18-19, 2017. Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 300K P2+). Programs are grouped by sport and ranked within each sport by P2+ audience size. For comparison, here is the same chart for the same weekend last year, November 19-20, […]
STATE OF AFFAIRS: Monday 10PM on NBC starting November 17 – If Nothing Else Is On… PLAYERS: Star and Executive Producer Katherine Heigl, who developed the series for herself and pitched it to all the networks, hoping to spark a bidding war (which never really happened). Series creator and pilot director Joe Carnahan, a […]
NETWORK UPDATE: Now that the preseason football preemptions have been scrubbed out of the network ratings, we can see that it was an ugly night for ABC, where a 2-hour episode of THE QUEST dropped 0.2 from last week to a horrific 0.3. It was followed by 0.6 for WORLD’S WILDEST COMMERCIALS. The only new […]
BROADCAST HIGHLIGHTS: One thing that hasn’t changed while we were away is that the broadcast networks air little of interest on Saturdays. CABLE HIGHLIGHTS: NFL Network’s quaduple-header of PRESEASON NFL games swept the Top 4 slots at 0.49/0.49/0.49/0.36. Adult Swim’s line-up performed as follows (we’ll begin having week-to-week comparisons with the […]