Here are our night-by-night ratings predictions for the Fall network television season: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday Now that we’ve gone through each night’s Fall ratings, let’s pull back and take a look at the big picture for each of the broadcast networks. ABC: Standing still isn’t necessarily a bad thing in the […]
GANG-RELATED: Thursday 9PM on FOX – Change the Channel I think my favorite cliche in the pilot for FOX’s burn-off drama GANG-RELATED–out of, believe me, plenty of choices–comes at the end of an argument between a fiery Assistant District Attorney (Shantal VanSanten) and the head of the show’s inter-agency Gang Task Force (Terry O’Quinn). […]
The rest of the week: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. The Saturday primetime network schedule, such as it is, isn’t worth much attention, being a patchwork of reruns and sports (although we will include estimates for that night in our full-week network projections). That brings us to Sunday, once the showcase night for […]
NETWORK UPDATE: The season finale of SURVIVOR edged up 0.1 in final numbers, moving it into a tie with AMERICAN IDOL. (The SURVIVOR post-finale special lost 0.1.) The season finales of THE MIDDLE and MODERN FAMILY both gained 0.1. WEDNESDAY CABLE: TNT’s coverage of the NBA PLAYOFFS was on top at 2.2, with the NHL […]
Wednesday preliminary broadcast ratings:
Fridays aren’t the most exciting night on the broadcast network schedule, but there are some interesting changes coming next fall. We’re following our predictions for Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday with a look at what Fridays have in store. These projections cover the September 22-December 7 period, before holiday reruns and specials kick in, […]
Thursdays are going to look very different next season, so let’s jump right into our very early fall ratings predictions. We’ve already taken a look at Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, and as before, our predictions cover the September 22-December 7 period when all the networks are running fresh episodes of just about all their […]
Note: all ratings below are Live + Same Day 18-49 numbers , the ratings which experience has shown to be closest to the averages for viewers who watch within 3 days and DO NOT skip through commercials, the “C3” rating which is the only measure that advertisers use in their transactions with the networks. […]