NETWORK FINALS:  The final rating for THE OSCARS was 2.12, down 60% from the 2020 rating and consistent with other recent awards shows.  (A note to those arguing that the content of the show drove viewers to turn it off in progress:  the highest quarter-hour of the telecast was at 2.31 […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  There were no changes from preliminary Friday ratings.  (ONCE UPON A TIME, which was initially reported as 2 separate hours, had a 0.5 rating as a 2-hour.)         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Discovery’s GOLD RUSH led Friday cable, up 0.09 […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  BIG BROTHER gained 0.1 in final numbers, while TAKE TWO lost the same.           Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  The season finale of MTV’s JERSEY SHORE: FAMILY VACATION topped Thursday cable, down a tick to 0.94, with the season finale of […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  There was no change from this morning’s preliminary 3.8 rating for the CMA AWARDS.  ARROW and CRIMINAL MINDS gained 0.1 in final numbers. Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  AMERICAN HORROR STORY: HOTEL (FX) won the night, down 0.12 from last week (and down 0.63 from last year’s post-Halloween […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  Things got even worse for ABC’s SOMEWHERE BETWEEN in final numbers, as it fell 0.1 to a flat-out awful 0.5 premiere.  The rerun of LIFE IN PIECES also lost 0.1.           Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  VH1 stayed on top […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  BIG BROTHER and AMERICA’S GOT TALENT gained 0.1 in final numbers, while CASTAWAYS and the reruns of SEAL TEAM, AMERICAN HOUSEWIFE and MODERN FAMILY dropped the same.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  FX’s AMERICAN HORROR STORY: APOCALYPSE continued the show’s […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  ABC’s run of MONSTERS UNIVERSITY and CBS’s rerun of NCIS: NEW ORLEANS each lost 0.1 in final numbers.       Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  It appears that HBO mistakenly listed the premiere of Beyonce’s LEMONADE as a rerun, which is why it […]

    NETWORK FINALS:  The final numbers mostly weren’t kind:  there were 0.1 drops for BLACK-ISH, NASHVILLE, STRONG, and the rerun of ARROW, plus MODERN FAMILY stayed at its series low rating.  Only THE GOLDBERGS had good news with a 0.1 bump.       Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS: […]