This wasn’t the way THE MINDY PROJECT wanted to end its season. 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 […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  Final ratings brought a a 0.1 shift at NBC, with THE VOICE up and THE NIGHT SHIFT down.  In addition, both MIKE & MOLLY and SCORPION rose 0.1, as did the first hour of THE FOLLOWING.  The reruns of THE ORIGINALS and JANE THE VIRGIN both lost 0.1. Ratings fin key demos […]

  THE NIGHT SHIFT had an unusually perky night.  In addition, note that in the post-midnight realm, LATE LATE SHOW WITH JAMES CORDEN had a solid start with older audiences, premiering at 1.4 in total households, ahead of the 1.2 for LATE NIGHT WITH SETH MEYERS.  In 18-49s, though, Meyers was ahead of Corden, 0.5 […]

During the NCAA Basketball Tournament’s Round of 32 Saturday and Sunday, almost every game on each network was in line with ratings for the same games the past few years.  (We do not have result from the CBS games in the afternoon yet — those ratings will arrive Thursday along with all other non-prime time […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  60 MINUTES adjusted down 0.2 once the NCAA TOURNAMENT overrun was taken into account.  The rest of the CBS line-up stayed where it was in preliminary results.  In addition, ONCE UPON A TIME gained 0.1, as did the second half-hour of THE LAST MAN ON EARTH and the night’s rerun of THE […]

Ratings in key demos for the Top 25 original cable telecasts (plus a few other lower-rated but noteworthy programs): March Madness continued to reign over Saturday cable, as NCAA TOURNAMENT games took all of the Top 4 slots, paced by the late-evening TBS game at 1.42.  (Even an NIT game hit the Top 10, with […]

A very normal set of ratings for the NCAA Basketball Tournament on Friday, March 20, the second and final day of the Round of 64.  After a very exciting Thursday with many upsets and close games, Friday was more by the book, with higher-seeded teams mostly winning (often with lopsided margins).  The ratings for the […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  There was no adjustment for the GLEE finale, and in fact the only change was a 0.1 dip for the rerun of IZOMBIE’s pilot. Ratings in key demos for the Top 25 original cable telecasts (plus a few other lower-rated but noteworthy programs): Friday cable was all about the NCAA TOURNAMENT, as […]