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  College sports controlled 5 of the top 6 slots on Saturday cable, with ESPN’s COLLEGE BOWL games led by the primetime game at 1.72, with afternoon games at 0.92 and 0.63, and COLLEGE BASKETBALL on ESPN2 at 1.08 and 0.41.  (Plus another college basketball game at 0.33.)  The sports was broken up by a […]

> A few notes: these projections are for original episodes (no repeats) aired in the 4th quarter of 2011.  Series premieres will likely be .3-.4 higher, thanks to network marketing pushes, and then tend to go down over time.  We’ll be updating the numbers after we see full pilots and also as we get 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 50: December 6-12, 2021 Broadcast News: Current Week Broadcast News: Same Week Last Year   Broadcast Late Night: Current […]

  NETWORK UPDATE  FOX’s NFC DIVISIONAL PLAYOFF GAME adjusted up to 10.4 in final numbers. Ratings in key demos for the Top 25 original cable telecasts (plus a few other lower-rated but noteworthy programs): ESPN’s COLLEGE BASKETBALL took the top 2 slots with a pair of afternoon games on a soft Saturday for cable, at 0.59/0.44.  […]

>The FOX pilot LOCKE & KEY is a very effective hour of creepiness, but it’s not that hard to understand why the network didn’t put the project on its schedule.  The show screams “cult hit” at best, and the pilot feels more like a shortened feature film than the viable prototype for a continuing weekly […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  Midseason continued to arrive on the networks, as THE BACHELOR premiered at 0.84, down a hefty 0.49 from the January 2021 premiere.  It was followed by reruns at 0.35/0.24. CBS:  Airing for the first time since December 6, THE NEIGHBORHOOD dropped 0.09 to 0.54, BOB HEARTS ABISHOLA gained 0.02 to 0.51, […]

> See A Word About Busted Pilots It’s entirely possible that BAD MOM wouldn’t have worked as a network TV series.  It represented an unusual attempt for a broadcast network (ABC) to step into the “edgy” sitcom territory that’s been the property of cable networks like HBO, Showtime and FX, and the pilot was clearly […]