NETWORK FINALS: There were significant adjustments (to the next tenth) for AMERICAN IDOL, THE ROOKIE, ZOEY’S EXTRAORDINARY PLAYLIST and FAMILY GUY. Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart CABLE HIGHLIGHTS: Note that for reasons we can’t explain, Nielsen is regularly listing Hallmark’s WHEN CALLS THE HEART […]
NETWORK FINALS: SUPERGIRL and THE ROOKIE gained 0.1 in final numbers. Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart CABLE HIGHLIGHTS: Bravo’s BELOW DECK jumped 0.14 to 0.83 to lead Tuesday cable, with lead-out UNANCHORED up 0.04 to 0.20. History’s CURSE OF OAK ISLAND ticked down to […]
BROADCAST FINALS ABC: JEOPARDY COLLEGE CHAMPIONSHIP gained 0.03 from Tuesday to 0.52. The season finale episodes of THE CHASE were at 0.37/0.31 compared to last week’s 0.34/0.27. CBS: BIG BROTHER: CELEBRITY EDITION dropped 0.06 to 0.54, and THE AMAZING RACE was down 0.08 to 0.47. An NCIS rerun followed at 0.23. NBC: The WINTER […]
A night for TV comfort food. 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 […]
One of the very few–in fact, one of the only–summer success stories in scripted broadcast network programming continues, as ABC has announced the renewal of ROOKIE BLUE for a 4th season to air in Summer 2013. “Success,” of course, is a relative term in this context. Rookie, often described as Grey’s Anatomy With Guns, […]
BROADCAST HIGHLIGHTS: ABC: Reruns at 0.20-0.37. CBS: BIG BROTHER dipped 0.02 to 0.99, followed by reruns at 0.23-0.32. NBC: BROOKLYN NINE-NINE was at 0.40/0.33 compared to last week’s 0.40/0.28. The season finale of MAKING IT grew by a tenth to 0.33. A LAW & ORDER: ORGANIZED CRIME rerun ended the night at 0.22. […]
Sunday preliminary broadcast ratings:
AMC executives may have felt like they’d been doing some meth themselves this morning–in a good way. Five and a half seasons into its run, BREAKING BAD returned for its final 8 episodes with a vengeance, exploding to a total viewership of 5.9M. That’s not just the highest rating by far in the show’s […]