BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  The season finale of AMERICA’S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS was at 0.50, down 0.21 from last week (which had an NBA Playoffs boost) and down a tenth from 2021.  The season finale of AMERICAN IDOL was at 0.76, up a tenth from last week and down 0.12 from last season. CBS:  The […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  CONVICTION lost 0.1 in final numbers to an even more dismal 0.6, JANE THE VIRGIN gave back the morning’s 0.1 gain, and THE ODD COUPLE was also down 0.1.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  ESPN’s MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL rose 0.29 […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  The only significant adjustment (to the next tenth) was for FOX’s AMERICAN ROAD TRIP.          Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  As will also probably be the case for Wednesday, Tuesday cable was dominated by news, here on the Georgia runoffs.  CNN’s […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  The US OPEN adjusted up by 0.2 to 1.9 in final numbers.  In addition, the rerun AMERICA’S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS received a 0.1 bump. CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  HBO’s TRUE DETECTIVE grew impressively during the course of its first season, and it picked up almost where it had left off, with a 1.42 rating compared […]

Broadcast news and late night series ratings available below for this week and the same week last year. You can also search for other available weeks with the link at the bottom of this post. Week 5: January 23-29, 2023 Broadcast News: Current Week Broadcast News: Same Week Last Year   Broadcast Late Night: Current […]

>History’s Pawn Stars returned with original episodes Monday at 10 pm, powering the reality hit to the top of the weekly cable ratings chart to a very good 2.0 rating with Adults 18-49.  That puts Pawn Stars tied for second place among all networks in the Monday 10 pm hour: #1 CBS Hawaii Five-O 2.6, […]

  Fans are already starting to miss their favorite serial killer, as DEXTER had the best launch of its run with last night’s Season 8 premiere.  The show had 2.5M viewers, up 100,000 from Season 7’s premiere.  (Demo numbers weren’t released, but should end up at around a 1.4 in 18-49s–which, if true, would mean […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  The overrun past 10PM didn’t affect the SURVIVOR finale’s rating in final numbers, but SURVIVOR REUNION fell 0.1.  Ratings in key demos for the Top 25 original cable telecasts (plus a few other lower-rated but noteworthy programs): AMERICAN HORROR STORY: FREAK SHOW (FX) slipped just a hundredth from last week to once […]