BROADCAST HIGHLIGHTS: ABC:  BACHELOR IN PARADISE was at 0.81, down 0.23 from Monday’s episode, and ULTIMATE SURFER was at 0.34, steady with Monday. CBS:  Reruns at 0.26-0.29. NBC:  AMERICA’S GOT TALENT dropped 0.09 to 0.85, and COLLEGE BOWL ticked up to 0.40. FOX:  LEGO MASTERS gained 0.04 to 0.50, and FANTASY […]

> The season premiere episode of MAD MEN wasn’t screened at PaleyFest tonight.   Although the show airs a week from Sunday and virtually every other PaleyFest honoree screened an upcoming episode of its series, series creator/showrunner/Keeper Of All Mysteries Matthew Weiner wasn’t about to let the premiere out of his grasp.  In fact, he’d obviously […]

    BROADCAST HIGHLIGHTS: ABC:  Reruns at 0.34/0.39. CBS:  SECRET CELEBRITY RENOVATION gained 0.04 to 0.32, and GREATEST #ATHOME VIDEOS ticked down to 0.26, followed by a BLUE BLOODS rerun at 0.17. NBC:  An AMERICAN NINJA WARRIOR rerun at 0.26, followed by DATELINE at 0.31. FOX:  WWE SMACKDOWN edged up 0.02 to 0.59. CW:  BURDEN […]

  The backlash to the Newsroom backlash backlash doesn’t seem to be hurting the show at all. HBO:  That sound you hear from the HBO boardroom is a sigh of relief:  THE NEWSROOM may or may not turn out to be Smash in terms of quality, but it’s definitely not Luck in the ratings.  In […]

      Analysis to follow.       Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   Top 50 Original Cable Telecasts with Demographic Detail Top 150 Original Cable Telecasts To search for a show: type Ctrl-F and type your show title in the search box. Top 150 Original Cable Telecasts: Wednesday July 21, 2021 P18-49 P2+ Rank […]

  AMC:  If a 6% decline to 4.9 (plus 1.7 for the 10PM rebroadcast) can be considered an “off” week, then THE WALKING DEAD was off this Sunday.  That 6.6 total will still be second only to Sunday Night Football in all of television for the week, although football’s lead is more lopsided this week, […]

  BROADCAST FINALS: ABC:  BACHELOR IN PARADISE lost 0.06 to 0.85, and ULTIMATE SURFER ticked up to 0.31. CBS:  Reruns at 0.20-0.32. NBC:  AMERICAN NINJA WARRIOR dropped 0.07 to 0.47, and THE WALL was down a tenth to 0.32. FOX:  HELL’S KITCHEN fell 0.14 to 0.50, followed by a special episode at 0.48. CW:  ROSWELL, […]

A fairly typical week at the top of the adult 18-49 rankings, with The Voice the top broadcast network program and Duck Dynasty the top cable entry.  But the riveting events in Boston last week also had an impact in the middle of the week’s chart.  NBC’s special Monday night at 10:00 pm (the day of the bombings at […]