NETWORK FINALS:  NBC’s NASCAR race gained 0.1 in final numbers, and 20/20: IN AN INSTANT lost the same.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Sports dominated Saturday cable, with ESPN’s TOP RANK BOXING at the top, scoring 1.14 for the main event hour […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  AMERICAN IDOL and the ELLEN’S GAME OF GAMES rerun gained 0.1 in final numbers, while THE RED LINE lost the same.          Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  HBO’s GAME OF THRONES may have set a series record with its 12.5M total […]

        NOTE:  Over time, we’ll be publishing posts like this for the gap period in which ShowbuzzDaily wasn’t operational.  Those posts will not have analysis.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   Top 50 Original Cable Telecasts with Demographic Detail Top 150 Original Cable Telecasts To search for a […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  Note that 20/20 is missing from the final nationals because it aired a special broadcast about the Paris attacks that didn’t include any commercials, and thus wasn’t covered by Nielsen.  (The same wasn’t true of the night’s DATELINE.)  Elsewhere, THE AMAZING RACE and WORLD’S FUNNIEST each lost 0.1 in finals. Broadcast Official […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  DANCING WITH THE STARS ticked down to 0.70, and THE GOOD DOCTOR was up 0.02 to 0.43. CBS:  Returning from a rerun week, THE NEIGHBORHOOD slipped 0.02 to 0.65, and BOB HEARTS ABISHOLA was steady at 0.53.  NCIS was down 0.03 to 0.59, and NCIS: HAWAII held at 0.48.  NBC:  THE […]

  History Channel, which just entered the world of scripted television 2 days ago, now owns the #1 and #2 scripted programs in the history of basic cable, as the 2d installment of HATFIELDS & MCCOYS barely declined from Monday’s premiere.  Tuesday’s episode was down only around 5% from Part 1, to about 13 million […]

  Sunday’s numbers won’t be fully in until tomorrow, but bits of information are starting to arrive about some of last night’s event telecasts: In its simulcast airing on 9 cable networks owned by FOX, COSMOS added 0.8 to its FOX broadcast score among 18-49s, giving it a 2.9 total.  That’s a nice bump, but […]

  THURSDAY BROADCAST:  Because this morning’s numbers were so screwed up, we’ll just start fresh with the broadcast networks. CBS:  BIG BROTHER, after all the adjustments, was up 0.1 to 2.3.  Even after the football effect was removed, the night’s rerun of THE BIG BANG THEORY was up half a point to a big 2.1. […]