>The ratings for the ACM Awards on CBS were understated.  The corrected numbers appear below. CBS took a bit of a hit with the Academy of Country Music Awards, which were down over 20% 9% from last year’s telecast.  The night as a whole was up a tick from last week, leading CBS to a […]

Broadcast news and late night series ratings available below for this week and the same week last year. You can also search for other available weeks with the link at the bottom of this post. Week 22: May 22-28, 2023 Broadcast News: Current Week Broadcast News: Same Week Last Year   Broadcast Late Night: Current […]

> A lot can happen between the creation of a TV pilot in the spring and the production of episodes for the regular season: a writing/producing team is hired, audience focus groups weigh in, networks and studios (which may have had their own turnover) give plenty of notes, helpful and otherwise, and critics begin to […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  Reruns at 0.36/0.26/0.25. CBS:  Reruns at 0.28/0.21/0.22. NBC:  AMERICA’S GOT TALENT gained 0.03 to 0.66, and HOT WHEELS was up 0.05 to 0.31. FOX:  BEAT SHAZAM rose 0.06 to 0.23, and DON’T FORGET THE LYRICS ticked up to 0.23. CW:  Back from a rerun week, SUPERMAN & LOIS ticked up to […]

>When the television ratings come in each morning, there is often a lot of attention paid to a rating that might be up only one tenth of a rating point from the prior week or the prior year.  (More recently, most ratings in most time periods have been trending down instead of up, which makes […]

  Only the night’s supernatural shows showed any life on a quiet Friday. 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 […]

> Big Bang makes one. CBS:  THE BIG BANG THEORY roared back from last week’s decline, up half a ratings point for its best number since March, and zooming past American Idol as the highest-rated show of the night.  That pushed RULES OF ENGAGEMENT up a couple of ricks as well.  The rest of the […]

      Even with finales on hand, nothing stirred viewers. FOX:  THE FINDER aired what turned out to be its series finale and FRINGE had its season finale, with a respective 1.1 and 1.0, up very slightly for both.   CBS:  A night of underperforming season finales.  UNDERCOVER BOSS took a big hit, down […]