HOLLYWOOD GAME NIGHT got more playful. 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 […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  RUNNING WILD lost 0.1 in final numbers.  It’s worth noting that the high preliminary ratings for PENN & TELLER: FOOL US (0.6) and WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY (0.7) didn’t lose anything after adjustments. CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  MTV debuted its new Monday line-up, with AWKWARD. at 0.72 (up a healthy 0.22 from November’s season […]

  Things cooled down for BACHELOR IN PARADISE last night. 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 […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  NBC’s PRESEASON FOOTBALL game (Arizona vs. Oakland) adjusted up by half a point to 2.4 in final numbers.  In addition, BIG BROTHER gained 0.1, as did the 7:30PM BOB’S BURGERS rerun (which had a football overrun as its lead-in). CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  AMC’s FEAR THE WALKING DEAD was of course the behemoth of the night, falling […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  Due to NFL PRESEASON preemptions, comparisons are to last Saturday’s final numbers rather than Sunday’s preliminaries.  On NBC, as expected the HANNIBAL finale lost most of its initial gain, but it did edge up 0.1 to 0.3, after 0.4 for an AMERICAN NINJA WARRIOR rerun.  The NFL PRESEASON game on CBS (Seattle vs. […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  There was an avalanche of 0.1 drops from preliminary numbers:  CBS’s NFL PRESEASON game, ABC’s SHARK TANK rerun, WHAT WOULD YOU DO and 20/20, NBC’s reruns of AMERICA’S GOT TALENT and DATELINE, and CW’s MASTERS OF ILLUSION and PENN & TELLER: FOOL US rerun all faced the same result.  The WHOSE LINE IS IT […]

  For the moment, BIG BROTHER is ahead of preseason football. 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 […]

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday August 29 and Sunday August 30, 2015. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. Click here for a look at sports ratings from the same calendar weekend last year. Football […]