NETWORK FINALS:  FOX’s NFL game adjusted to 3.9.  Elsewhere, THE BACHELORETTE and BIG SKY gained 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  History’s CURSE OF OAK ISLAND topped Tuesday cable, up 0.05 to 0.59, with the lead-out hour down 0.04 […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  CW’s Monday ratings were apparently swollen by preemption in Houston for the local simulcast of the night’s NFL game.  As a result, in adjusted numbers, THE ORIGINALS lost 0.1, and JANE THE VIRGIN dropped 0.2, leaving that show not up but down from last week’s premiere–although at 0.5 it’s still retaining most of […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  The 8PM SHARK TANK  rerun gained 0.1 in final numbers, while the ELEMENTARY rerun lost the same. CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Sports occupied half the slots in Friday’s cable Top 10.  COLLEGE FOOTBALL took the lead with ESPN’s double feature of games at 0.77/0.64.  An episode of SPORTSCENTER occupied #6 at 0.39, a Univision […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  ABC’s COLLEGE FOOTBALL game stayed at 1.6, and FOX’s adjusted up to 3.6.  Elsewhere, the rerun of KEVIN CAN WAIT fell 0.2, and DATELINE as well as the reruns of WILL & GRACE and MAN WITH A PLAN lost 0.1 in final numbers.           Broadcast Official […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  NCIS: LA, BOB’S BURGERS and AMERICA’S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS gained 0.1 in final numbers, while DECEPTION and 60 MINUTES lost the same.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  AMC’s THE WALKING DEAD seems to have found its level for now, up […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  There may have been baseball preemptions on Friday night, because some of the drops in final numbers were sharp:  0.2 for the AMERICAN NINJA WARRIOR and WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY reruns, as well as 0.1 for QUANTICO, DATELINE and the HARRY POTTER special.           Broadcast […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  SURVIVOR gained 0.1 in final numbers, and SEAL TEAM lost the same.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  18 of the top 19 cable telecasts on Wednesday were news, led by Fox News’s HANNITY at 0.50/0.81/5M, with CNN’s INSIDE POLITICS at […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  THE GOLDEN GLOBES adjusted to 1.52, down a calamitous 68% from 2020.  Elsewhere, NCIS:  NEW ORLEANS and BOB’S BURGERS adjusted up to the next tenth, while presumably as a result of sports, the adjusted number for CHERRIES WILD was down two-tenths.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program […]