Broadcast news and late night series ratings available below for this week and the same week last year. You can also search for other available weeks with the link at the bottom of this post. Week 49: November 29-December 5, 2021 Broadcast News: Current Week Broadcast News: Same Week Last Year   Broadcast Late Night: […]

  FOX got the New Year’s present it wanted.  (Well, mostly.) 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 […]

> Premieres Thursday 10PM on USA:  If Nothing Else Is On… (But it’s summer, so nothing is.) At this point, I think we could all identify a USA Network series blindfolded and with the soundtrack running backwards.  There’s the quirky, unconventional savant lead–available, like a comfortable sweater, in several colors:  cop/detective (In Plain Sight, Psych, […]

  BROADCAST FINALS:  FOX’s NFL game (shared with NFLNetwork, whose ratings are below) owned Christmas Day at 7.74.  That compared to 3.15 for last year’s broadcast game.  FOX aired PBC BOXING in primetime at 0.66.  ABC’s tripleheader of NBA games was at 1.52/1.64/1.57 compared to 1.82 for last year’s broadcast game.  The other networks aired […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  The finale of WOMEN OF THE MOVEMENT dropped 0.05 to 0.40, and the final LET THE WORLD SEE was down 0.07 to 0.31. CBS:  YOUNG SHELDON rose a tenth to 0.83, UNITED STATES OF AL held at 0.53, GHOSTS gained 0.03 to 0.68, and B POSITIVE ticked up to 0.50.  BULL […]

  Marvel continues to lag behind its comic-book TV nemesis. 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 […]

> See A Word About Busted Pilots Had it managed to become a full-fledged series, PARTNERS might have been a decent fit with ABC’s other female-oriented crime shows like Castle and Body of Proof, but based on the pilot, its only points of distinctiveness were probably too gimmicky and contrived to work.   The title […]

  BROADCAST FINALS:  NBC’s primetime WINTER OLYMPICS coverage was at 1.37.  ABC’s NBA game was at 0.92.  CW’s shows were at 0.05/0.06.   Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  USA’s portion of WINTER OLYMPICS coverage was at 0.39/0.36/0.31/0.29/0.17/0.16/0.15/0.11/0.11.  ESPN’s COLLEGE BASKETBALL was at 0.33/0.31/0.19/0.18, with UFC PRELIMS at 0.31.  Hallmark’s original movie […]