Full demo numbers for Sunday’s premiere of  Aaron Sorkin’s opus THE NEWSROOM on HBO won’t be available until tomorrow, but we do know that the initial 9PM telecast was watched by 2.1 million people (with an extra 600,000 watching late-night repeat airings).  As usual with mid-level ratings, they can be cut several ways. The good:  […]

  As befits the most traditional of the broadcast networks, CBS will launch almost all of its Fall 2012 premieres during Fall Premiere week, Sept. 24-30: Wed Sept 19 8PM:          SURVIVOR Mon Sept 24 8PM:          HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER 8:30PM:     PARTNERS 9PM:          2 BROKE GIRLS 9:30PM:     MIKE & MOLLY 10PM:        HAWAII 5-0 Tues […]

Note: The numbers below are inflated by tenths of a rating point by multiple major-market pre-emptions for the final night of NFL Preseason: ABC (Los Angeles-Chargers, Houston, Cleveland, Charlotte, Nashville, Buffalo) CBS (New York-Jets, Boston, Dallas, Bay Area-49ers, Pittsburgh, Miami, Kansas City, Cincinnati) NBC (New York-Giants, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Baltimore, Milwaukee, Phoenix, Tampa) FOX (Chicago, […]

The prime time portion of the Opening Ceremony of the London Olympics averaged a stunning 12.4 rating with Adults 18-49, blowing away last year’s 10.3 rating from Beijing (which was very good for an Olympics not hosted by the United States).    The half-hour ratings for the prime time portion of the telecast showed solid […]

Broadcast television quickly returned to normal the week ending Sunday night, the first full week after the Summer Olympics. FOX won the quiet week of August 13-19 with a preliminary 1.65 Adult 18-49 rating. Once again, the Gordon Ramsay reality shows paced FOX’s win, but the network was down 9% from the same week last […]

For NBC, the preseason was nice while it lasted. NBC:  The network launched its Thursday line-up last night against little or no competition from 2 of the other networks…. and fell off a cliff.  THE OFFICE, the last remnant of “must see TV,” tied its lowest-rated airing ever at 2.1, which was down a ghastly […]

It’s getting to be time for the season’s first cancellation. CBS:  MADE IN JERSEY plummeted to 0.8, below even (gulp!) Fringe, and can’t be long for this world.  It probably didn’t have much effect on the long-running CSI NY and BLUE BLOODS that surround it, but they’re slumping too, with twin 1.2s that are far […]

  AMERICAN HORROR STORY returned last night with a different storyline, setting and cast, and also brought along some new viewers to scare.  Last night’s Season 2 debut had what should end up as a 2.0 18-49 rating, considerably up from the 1.7 it earned for last season’s finale, and enough to beat or at […]