A holiday visitor livened things up. 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 […]

  THE MYSTERIES OF LAURA:  Wednesday 8PM on NBC starting September 24 (premieres 10PM on September 17) – Change the Channel PLAYERS:  Star Debra Messing, and central co-stars Josh Lucas and Laz Alonso.  The Spanish TV series on which it’s based.  US series creator Jeff Rake, who’s worked on an assortment of shows over the past decade […]

  SURVIVOR held steady. 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 the chart. CBS:  […]

  Like the movie box office, the summer TV season is ending with a whimper. CBS:  The network will have to hope that there’s more audience interest in its new shows than the 0.8 rating for its CBS FALL PREVIEW infomercial suggests.  After that, the increasingly nutso UNDER THE DOME fell 0.2 to a new […]

    BROADCAST HIGHLIGHTS: ABC:  BACHELOR IN PARADISE returned for the first time since Summer 2019, and it was at 0.93 compared to 1.3 for its last premiere.  The finale of CELEBRITY DATING GAME was at 0.40. CBS:  Reruns, led by THE NEIGHBORHOOD at 0.37. NBC:  AMERICAN NINJA WARRIOR ticked down to 0.52, and THE […]

  Dancing With the Stars lost another step. ABC:  DANCING WITH THE STARS had its worst season premiere ever, down 0.8 from last fall and 0.2 from Spring 2014 to 2.4–and it’s only going to get worse, because the ABC station in Indianapolis carried a simulcast of the ESPN Monday Night Football game.  That will […]

      Analysis to follow.       Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   Top 50 Original Cable Telecasts with Demographic Detail Top 150 Original Cable Telecasts To search for a show: type Ctrl-F and type your show title in the search box. Top 150 Original Cable Telecasts: Monday May 17, 2021 P18-49 P2+ Rank […]

  ABC’s Tuesday prospects look considerably less bright after last night. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment) Tuesday, 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). […]