>Back to a first place tie on Thursday between CBS (with mostly original episodes this week) and FOX (with Idol down to a one-hour edition) followed by The Finder.  You will notice we do not have year-to-year comparisons for this night.  Two very helpful readers identified a problem with recent year-ago comparisons, and it is […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  SHARK TANK ticked up to 0.39, and 20/20 was up 0.05 to 0.32. CBS:  Night 2 of the NCAA TOURNAMENT featured primetime broadcast games at 0.82/0.71. NBC:  LOPEZ VS LOPEZ dipped 0.03 to 0.23, GRAND CREW lost 0.03 to 0.14, and DATELINE was up 0.02 to 0.28. FOX:  WWE SMACKDOWN was […]

  A big night for CBS’s sitcoms. 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 2). Ratings analysis and […]

> NBC, taking its successes where it can find them, has renewed GRIMM for a second season.  The show has done solidly on Friday nights, with ratings in the mid-1s that often win the hour, so it was never in any danger of being cancelled–the question for next season is whether NBC feels confident enough […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  After a rerun of THE CONNERS at 0.31, THE GOLDBERGS was steady at 0.34, ABBOTT ELEMENTARY gained 0.08 to 0.53, NOT DEAD YET dropped 0.05 to 0.26, and A MILLION LITTLE THINGS held at 0.21. CBS:  SURVIVOR remained at 0.71.  Following a rerun at 0.21, TRUE LIES held at 0.23. NBC:  […]

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday October 10 through Sunday October 11, 2015. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. Click here for sports ratings from the same NFL and college football weeks or the same calendar weekend […]

> Other shows aired last night besides Mad Men. AMC:  Nevertheless, let’s start there.  Early numbers on the MAD MEN premiere give it the show’s biggest audience ever, higher than the season 4 premiere by a factor of over 20%, and with an 18-49 rating of around 1.2 that was 30% higher than last season’s […]

  BROADCAST FINALS:  ABC’s NBA PLAYOFFS game was at 2.54.  NBC’s USFL game was at 0.37.  FOX’s MLB game was at 0.37.  On CW, MASTERS OF ILLUSION ticked down to 0.03, and TOTALLY WEIRD & FUNNY was also down a tick to 0.03.   Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  On ESPN, […]