Top broadcast and cable programs this week and last. Shark Week kicked off Sunday on Discovery with the mockumentary Megalodon: Monster Shark at 9:00 pm, which matched the 2.2 True Blood rating with Adults 18-49 on HBO at the same time. NFL’s pre-season Hall of Fame Game on NBC, also on Sunday, was the top program of the week. Not shown […]
The storyline on Under the Dome may be getting increasingly wacky, but viewers are hanging in. CBS: UNDER THE DOME held even at 2.4, tying its series low, but still towering over everything else that aired last night. The reruns that preceded it were all 0.9-1.0. NBC: A bad night. AMERICAN NINJA WARRIOR slipped […]
For the most part, Labor Day brought the networks some modest increases. ABC: MISTRESSES may be gaining some momentum at the right time, as its 2d try at 9PM (and penultimate episode of the summer) increased a healthy 0.3 to 1.3. CBS: The Time Warner Cable/CBS settlement (just in time for the start […]
Updated ratings for the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament through Championship Monday of March Madness. One game has been added to the CBS average. CBS averaged almost 8.4 million viewers 2+ for its 24 games this year, up a big +39% from last year and up +15% from the 2012-2016 average, as the Final Four and Championship game returned […]
Another NBC vs CBS showdown–but this one goes the other way. CBS: Two-thirds of a remarkable night. The back-to-back episodes of THE BIG BANG THEORY that served as its Season 7 premiere were spectacular at 5.3/5.8, not just the highest network scores of the week (barring football), but up from last year’s 5.0 for […]
Whatever Undercover Boss did last night, it should do that again. CBS: On a mostly quiet network night, UNDERCOVER BOSS zoomed by half a ratings point to 1.8–not quite the biggest show of the evening, but close. The rest of the line-up didn’t fare as well, as both HAWAII 5-0 and BLUE BLOODS slipped […]
AFTERNOON UPDATE: With the NFL game factored out, the entire NBC line-up fell. THE VOICE dropped 0.2 to 2.5, SEAN SAVES THE WORLD by 0.3 to 1.4, and THE MICHAEL J. FOX SHOW by 0.3 to a dire 1.0. PARENTHOOD fell 0.2 to 1.3. Meanwhile, THE VAMPIRE DIARIES rose 0.1 to a sterling 1.3 (but […]
Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday October 5 through Sunday October 11, 2020. Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size now 200K P2+ live+same day). Programs are grouped by sport and ranked within each sport by P2+ audience size. For comparison, here is the similar chart […]