NETWORK FINALS:  AMERICAN IDOL gained 0.1 in final numbers. In addition,  GENIUS JR flip-flopped its hours from 0.6/0.5 to 0.5/0.6.           Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  AMC’s FEAR THE WALKING DEAD was steady at 0.85, with INTO THE BADLANDS up 0.06 to 0.39, […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  As we noted yesterday, we’ll now be comparing preliminary ratings in tenths to final numbers in hundredths.  ABC’s NBA game was way up in finals, from an early 1.1 to a final 1.82.  With the help of a late-afternoon NFL lead-in, FOX’s WWE SMACKDOWN was also up (from 0.8 […]

      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: Saturday July 10, 2021 P18-49 P2+ Rank […]

  Ratings in key demos for the Top 25 original cable telecasts (plus a few other lower-rated but noteworthy programs): The NCAA TOURNAMENT was predictably at the top of Saturday’s cable ratings, with TBS scoring 4.89 with the Kentucky vs. Notre Dame game, and 2.63 for Wisconsin vs. Arizona.  Nothing else was remotely close, but […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  THE MASKED SINGER and CHICAGO MED gained 0.1 in final numbers, while ALMOST FAMILY and SINGLE PARENTS lost the same.          Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS: The MLB WILD CARD game was again at the top of cable, this time on […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  The SHARK TANK rerun lost 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  VH1’s BLACK INK CREW led Wednesday cable, up 0.05 to 0.54.  Bravo’s REAL HOUSEWIVES OF NYC slipped 0.02 to 0.47.  Fox News’s HANNITY was the #3 […]

      NETWORK FINALS:  There were no changes from the preliminary Friday ratings.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Festivities began for NBA ALL-STAR WEEKEND, with the Friday events including the RISING STARS CHALLENGE at 0.68 on TNT and the ALL-STAR EVENT at 0.62 on ESPN.  […]

  Last night’s midseason premiere of THE WALKING DEAD was disappointingly sluggish, uncompelling, and in its ending, downright silly.  None of that mattered at all to its hordes of fans, though.  The show returned with a gigantic 5.7 rating in 18-49s for its 9PM airing alone (against The Grammys, no less), outrating everything on network […]