NETWORK UPDATE:  The Oregon vs. Michigan State COLLEGE FOOTBALL game adjusted to 2.5.  The reruns of RUNNING WILD and BULLSEYE each lost 0.1 in final numbers. CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Sports (and ESPN) dominated Saturday cable, with COLLEGE FOOTBALL and various pre-and-post shows accounting for 7 of the day’s Top 10 slots.  The Oklahoma vs. Tennessee game […]

> The final arrival of the season is a flop. CW:  THE LA COMPLEX has some promise, but as a low-budget, no-star version of the network’s usual fodder, it didn’t give the Marketing department much to work with.  Viewers were not enticed, and the result was a terrible 0.3 debut.  (It’s not clear whether LA […]

  BROADCAST FINALS: ABC:  After a CORAZON DE AMERICA special at 0.22, 20/20 was at 0.28 compared to last week’s 0.48/0.43. CBS:  BIG BROTHER was at 0.63, followed by GREATEST #ATHOME VIDEOS at 0.19 and a BLUE BLOODS rerun at 0.14. NBC:  After an AMERICAN NINJA WARRIOR rerun at 0.33, DATELINE dropped 0.07 to 0.26. […]

    NETWORK FINALS:  OLYMPICS coverage gained half a point to 6.8 in final numbers.  ABC’s finals were a mess, presumably because of local sports preemptions:  LAST MAN STANDING and DR KEN were each down 0.3 to 0.3/0.2, 20/20 fell 0.2 to 0.3, and BOSTON EMS was down 0.1 to 0.3.  In addition, FOX’s HOTEL […]

7 Welcome to SHOWBUZZDAILY’s live coverage of the 2013 Emmy Awards!  Will this be the year Netflix storms the barricades with House of Cards?  Will the Academy decide it can love a sit-com as much as it does Modern Family?  Stay tuned… (All Times PDT) 5:02PM:  CBS came awfully close, but the Jets game ended […]

  BROADCAST FINALS:  FOX’s Game 6 of the WORLD SERIES was at 2.93.  ABC’s primetime COLLEGE FOOTBALL was at 0.37.  and NBC’s as at 0.63.  (The dominant game of the day was CBS’s afternoon game at 3.41.)  On CW, MAGIC WITH THE STARS ticked up to 0.05, and WORLD’S FUNNIEST ANIMALS held at 0.04.  In […]

  BROADCAST FINALS:  ABC’s COLLEGE FOOTBALL was at 1.12.  The season premiere of NBC’s SNL was at 0.73, down 0.19 from 2021’s premiere.  FOX’s MLB game was at 0.54.    Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  COLLEGE FOOTBALL was dominant, with ESPN’s games at 0.86/0.80/0.69/0.39, Big 10’s at 0.37/0.24/0.11, Fox Sports 1’s […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  The night’s only adjustment was a 0.1 bump for the rerun of CASTLE. CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  The holiday weekend shook the crown of GAME OF THRONES, which fell 0.61 from last week to 2.53, dropping it to 2d place for the night behind the 2.87 NBA PLAYOFFS game on TNT.  Elsewhere on HBO, […]