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        NETWORK FINALS:  The MACGYVER rerun lost 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Fox News’s TUCKER CARLSON TONIGHT led Friday cable at 0.33/0.52/3.9M, with MSNBC’s RACHEL MADDOW SHOW at 0.24/0.35/1.9M, and CNN TONIGHT at 0.21/0.33/1.3M.  VH1’s RUPAUL’S ALL STARS dipped […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  The AFC CHAMPIONSHIP game adjusted to 11.83, down a bit from the final 12.2 for 2020’s primetime NFC game.  FBI, which began at 10:30PM, had a 1.98 rating.  In addition, there was a significant adjustment (to the next tenth) for AMERICA’S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS.         Broadcast […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  The only adjustment from this morning was a 0.1 bump for MASTERCHEF. CABLE UPDATE:  The season finale of DUCK DYNASTY jumped by two-tenths to 1.04, easily winning the cable night.  However, that was down a tremendous 0.39 from the August 2014 finale.  Lead-out WAHLBURGERS only benefited from the DYNASTY finale to the tune […]

> The season premiere episode of MAD MEN wasn’t screened at PaleyFest tonight.   Although the show airs a week from Sunday and virtually every other PaleyFest honoree screened an upcoming episode of its series, series creator/showrunner/Keeper Of All Mysteries Matthew Weiner wasn’t about to let the premiere out of his grasp.  In fact, he’d obviously […]

> Charlie Sheen will be on the air the night Ashton Kutcher takes over the lead role on Two and a Half Men.  Just not on CBS.  Deadline reports Comedy Central will air its roast of Sheen at 10 pm on Monday, September 19, the same night CBS premieres the new Charlie Sheen-free version at […]

  JANE THE VIRGIN had a fair start. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment) Monday, 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 […]

  Only one show on any network topped 1.6 as pre-February Sundays ran out their string. 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 […]