Updated weekly broadcast and cable program rankings.

        NETWORK FINALS:  THE MASKED SINGER, THE GOLDBERGS, BLACK-ISH, and the CBS and NBC news specials all gained 0.1 in final numbers.  As we mentioned this morning, the 9PM hour on CBS wasn’t filled with a new episode of THE AMAZING RACE but rather by a SWAT rerun.         […]

      NETWORK FINALS:  MOM lost 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  TLC’s illustrious DR PIMPLE POPPER led Thursday cable, up 0.11 to 0.71.  TNT’s NBA doubleheader was at 0.59/0.45.  On MTV, FLORIBAMA SHORE slipped 0.03 to 0.40, and EX ON THE […]

> An off-night if you didn’t have Thrones in your title. HBO:  GAME OF THRONES, airing an episode that started with a gasp-inducing surprise death (one less potential king for Westeros), was the highest-rated show on cable TV Sunday night, even beating the NBA Playoffs on TNT (although Thrones was over when the Clippers launched […]

  NOTE TO READERS:  Charts will be updated and reformatted later today.  Charts have been updated to the normal format. NETWORK UPDATE:  BIG BROTHER had an extra 0.1 in final numbers, and so did the reruns of BOOM and DATES.  The BONES rerun, however, lost 0.1. CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  The appeal of presidential politics mixed with […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  GOD FRIENDED ME lost 0.1 in final numbers.  Also, FOX as expected noted that the 7PM hour was filled by its DAYTONA 500 overrun rather than animated reruns, and the ratings for the two half-hours were adjusted to 1.6/1.2.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart […]

  BROADCAST FINALS: ABC:  THE GOLDBERGS gained 0.03 to 0.58, THE WONDER YEARS dipped 0.03 to 0.47, THE CONNERS ticked up to 0.52, and HOME ECONOMICS ticked down to 0.35.  A MILLION LITTLE THINGS fell 0.08 to 0.23, and even by the current standards of broadcast network ratings, that seems like a dangerous place to […]

The ratings for most network programs came back down to Earth in the official nationals (with the NFL preseason games filtered out of the early ratings, as we explained this morning).  As expected, Big Brother was least impacted (only down one tenth from this morning because CBS was able air it at 10 pm in the California […]