With the overwhelming amount of quality television these days available on various platforms, the Emmy nominators (of which I’m one, in certain categories) weren’t going to get it all right.  (A full list of nominees is here.)   There were omissions aplenty–The Americans and The Knick on the drama side, to name just two, and […]

  AFTERNOON UPDATE:  For the third consecutive night, all the broadcast networks were beaten by cable in the 10PM hour.  On Monday it was ESPN’s MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL, on Tuesday FX won with SONS OF ANARCHY, and last night broadcast was actually in third place, behind 3.2 for DUCK DYNASTY on A&E and 3.0 for […]

  Even with a drop, THE BACHELOR easily won the demo. 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 […]

  SATURDAY BBCAMERICA:  The ORPHAN BLACK season finale didn’t push it anywhere near the ratings big leagues, but at least it rounded up to a 0.2 in 18-49s, and it skewed fairly young, with that demo making up more than half its 375K total viewers.  The finale was up 50% from the week before, however […]

      NETWORK FINALS:  There were 0.1 bumps for THE CATCH, THE BIG BANG THEORY and LEGENDS OF TOMORROW in final numbers.       Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart       CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  ESPN’s NBA PLAYOFFS game was in the driver’s seat of Thursday cable with 2.07.  Univision’s LIGA Soccer match […]

  For better or worse, Tuesdays seem to be fairly locked. 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 […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  STATION 19 gained 0.06 to 0.62, GREY’S ANATOMY was up 0.02 to 0.63, and BIG SKY ticked up to 0.35. CBS:  YOUNG SHELDON slipped 0.02 to 0.63, UNITED STATES OF AL dropped 0.06 to 0.44, GHOSTS (which just received its back order) fell 0.08 to 0.53, and B POSITIVE was down […]

NBC’s preseason continues to play out well. NBC:  GO ON has yet to face any real competition, but it held well with a 3.3 last night, and the episode was better structured than last week’s, with one central Matthew Perry story rather than multiple fragments.  THE NEW NORMAL, on the other hand, was preachy and […]