A solid start for SCHOOLED. 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 comparisons […]

>The metered-market overnights, the first ratings available each day, show that NBC’s Awake finished in second place in the 10 pm hour to the repeat episode of The Mentalist on CBS.  Remember that the overnights reflect viewing in 56 of the largest television markets only (about half of the country), and the ratings and shares […]

  BROADCAST FINALS: ABC:  Airing for the first time since November 10, STATION 19 ticked down to 0.49, and GREY’S ANATOMY slipped 0.02 to 0.49.  A rerun of the COMPANY YOU KEEP pilot was at 0.19. CBS:  Reruns at 0.42/0.35/0.24/0.18. NBC:  LAW & ORDER dipped 0.04 to 0.49, SVU dropped 0.07 to 0.58, and LAW […]

>The most recent Promo Watch numbers are based on prime time broadcast network programming between March 4 and March 8, with about 10 hours of programming sampled for each network over that period.  (Click “read more” to see the latest chart.)ABC.  Missing has become the top promotional priority for ABC over the past week, now […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  The line-up was preempted last week for the Oscars, and returned with AMERICA’S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS down 0.25 to 0.47, AMERICAN IDOL down 0.13 to 0.59, and THE COMPANY YOU KEEP up 0.04 to 0.27.  CBS:  60 MINUTES benefitted from afternoon NCAA TOURNAMENT games at 1.43/2.40/2.64 and rose four-tenths to 0.93.  […]

> The eagerly-awaited Season 5 of the most honored series on television, an interminable 17 months in the making, contents itself with a single enigmatic image:  Don Draper staring into a department store window, his reflected gaze held by two mannequins, one a naked female, her dress at her feet, the other a seated man […]

Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday April 10 through Sunday April 16, 2023. Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 100K Persons 2+ live+same day). Programs are grouped by sport and ranked within each sport by P2+ audience size. Here is the same week last year […]

> ALCATRAZ was a show–pardon the use of past tense:  the series still has a pulse, but recent ratings make it an increasing longshot for a repeat sentence–that just never found its groove.  Convoluted but obvious, original and yet impersonal, the show was rarely terrible and never essential. The series was, as they say, “troubled.”  […]