BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  After the special THE MAGIC MAKER at 0.18, reruns at 0.24/0.29. CBS:  Reruns at 1.57 (boosted by an NFL lead-in)/0.92/0.62/0.41 NBC:  The primetime NFL game was at 5.66, below the 6.1 for the primetime holiday game in 2019. FOX:  The chart has been corrected with the MLS SEMIFINAL game ratings added […]

  Breaking Bad‘s arrival was the big ratings news on Sunday night, while the launch of Political Animals wasn’t. HBO:  TRUE BLOOD, as usual, took the night with a 2.7 that was a tick higher than last week, beating the season premiere of Big Brother on CBS and for that matter everything else on broadcast […]

NETWORK UPDATE:  THE BIG BANG THEORY and BONES gained 0.1 in final numbers, while DATELINE and the rerun of SVU lost the same amount.  Ratings in key demos for the Top 25 original cable telecasts (plus a few other lower-rated but noteworthy programs): FX’s THE COMEDIANS premiered at an OK 0.37, and it was followed […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  ABC’s run of the movie FLUSHED AWAY lost 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Basketball dominated Saturday cable, with 4 of the Top 10 slots occupied by various pieces of TNT’s coverage of NBA ALL-STAR WEEKEND, topped […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  Every CBS show except BIG BANG THEORY–i.e., LIFE IN PIECES, MOM, 2 BROKE GIRLS and ELEMENTARY–lost 0.1 in final numbers, and so did YOU, ME & THE APOCALYPSE and the SVU rerun.  On the other hand, SCANDAL gained 0.1.        Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   […]

OnOn NETWORK UPDATE:  The Notre Dame COLLEGE FOOTBALL game on NBC adjusted up by 0.1 in final numbers to 1.2. CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  COLLEGE FOOTBALL took over Saturday cable, giving ESPN 8 of the day’s Top 10 shows with games or related programming.  The noon Stanford/Northwestern game took the day’s prize at 1.19.  The top-rated non-sports programming […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  NCIS: NEW ORLEANS lost 0.1 in final numbers.  In addition, it’s worth noting the extreme front-loading of EMERGENCE, which started at 1.1 in the 10PM-10:15PM quarter-hour, and was at 0.5 by 10:45PM.           Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  ESPN dominated Tuesday […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  As we noted this morning, due to the many adjustments for sports in fast nationals, we’ll look at the week-vs-week comparisons here: ABC:  A special 20/20 salute to Aretha Franklin started the night at 0.6, then MATCH GAME was down 0.1 to 0.5, and TAKE TWO lost 0.2 to […]