NETWORK FINALS:  BLUE BLOODS lost 0.1 in final numbers, as did the WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY rerun.       Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE ORIGINALS:  With no GOLD RUSH on Discovery, Lifetime’s BRING IT took the night’s cable title, up 0.07 from last week to […]

> A lot can happen between the creation of a TV pilot in the spring and 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 in the off-season) give plenty of notes, both helpful and otherwise, and […]

  STAR-CROSSED was putting it mildly. 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 the […]

  NOTE:  The live AMERICAN IDOL may rise in final numbers once west coast viewing is calculated in. 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 […]

Not a tuneful evening. ABC:  The AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS collapsed to a 3.4, the highest non-football of the night and somewhat higher than what ABC has been doing on Sundays, but down 0.9 from last year’s telecast. FOX:  Without the benefit of last Sunday’s NFL overtime lead-in, THE SIMPSONS and BOB’S BURGERS were way down […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  THE PROPOSAL lost 0.1 in final numbers, as did both the new and rerun episodes of WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Viacom specials mean simulcasts, and in this case it was of the MTV VIDEO […]

Tuesday network ratings versus the same night last year. Original episode track for Tuesday broadcast programs.

Note: The numbers below, mostly live sports and news, do not reflect viewing of those programs in the Pacific Time Zone. Come back Tuesday morning for precise program ratings for Saturday broadcast and cable. 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 […]