For the second week in a row, FOX is the only network above a 2.0 rating in the prime time weekly average.  NBC is headed for a record low week: the estimated 1.13 falls comfortably below the previous low (week 19 of the season, January 28-February 3).  Week 19 had a pretty good excuse: the […]

A&E’s Duck Dynasty sits atop the cable ranking of all telecasts midway through this week.  Of course, we are saving the top spot for Sunday’s Walking Dead on AMC.  Easter Sunday is one of those rare holidays that don’t really depress TV viewing — AMC should certainly run an original episode Sunday. The lists below show […]

Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday March 16 through Sunday March 22, 2020.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 300K P2+ live+same day).  Programs are grouped by sport and ranked within each sport by P2+ audience size. For comparison, here is the similar chart for the same […]

  Believe it or not, now that it’s far too late and the closing notice has all but been posted, SMASH aired its best episode of the season last night–not remotely what some of us hoped the show would be at the start, not a masterpiece by any stretch of the imagination or anything to […]

  May Sweeps continued to excite hardly anyone. ABC:  The network aired its regular line-up for the first time in a month, and it did no good for ONCE UPON A TIME, which slipped 0.1 from last week and fell to a series low 2.0.  REVENGE was up 0.2 from an Easter airing when ratings […]

Welcome to the Broadcast News & Late Night Series report, a weekly round-up of broadcast series that air outside primetime such as the 6:30 pm weeknight newscasts, the 7-9 am news and interview shows and the late night comedy series. Other weekly news and late night series such as Saturday Night Live and the Sunday […]

  Last night was Battle of the Canceled Shows. CBS:  Even though UNDERCOVER BOSS was up a robust 0.4 to 1.6 as a lead-in, the last episode of VEGAS only managed to hold even at 0.9.  The season finale of BLUE BLOODS was down 0.2 to 1.1. FOX:  The season finale of KITCHEN NIGHTMARES, even […]

  ABC rounds out its new Wednesday with BACK IN THE GAME, placed in the 8:30PM hammock slot between The Middle and Modern Family  It’s pretty clearly inspired by the Clint Eastwood movie Trouble With the Curve, with a little Bad News Bears added for flavoring, about the grumpy relationship between an ex-ballplayer (James Caan) […]