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UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Saturday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 12.28.2019

Posted December 31, 2019 by Mitch Metcalf

          NETWORK FINALS:  THE FACES OF FAMILY SEPARATION and the SWAT rerun lost 0.1 in final numbers.        Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  As expected, Saturday TV was dominated by ESPN’s pair of CFP SEMIFINAL games at 5.56 (with simulcasts on ESPN2 at 0.13 […]

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UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Saturday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 12.12.2020

Posted December 15, 2020 by Mitch Metcalf

        NETWORK FINALS:  ABC’s COLLEGE FOOTBALL game adjusted to 0.7, and FOX’s MLS match adjusted to 0.4.  Elsewhere, FROSTY THE SNOWMAN gained 0.1 in final numbers, while reruns of ELLEN’S GAME OF GAMES and THE WALL lost the same.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE […]

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The Sked: Cable Ratings December 20-26

Posted December 29, 2011 by Mitch Metcalf

>ESPN’s Monday Night Football concluded its season with a solid 5.6 rating with Adults 18-49, the top rated program on cable this week by far.  On Christmas Day Sunday, the delayed NBA season tipped off at noon ET with a very good 2.5 rating on TNT for the Boston Celtics at New York Knicks.  ESPN’s […]

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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Monday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 8.9.2021

Posted August 10, 2021 by Mitch Metcalf

      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 show: […]

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THE SKED: “Breaking” Ugly

Posted August 2, 2011 by Mitch Salem

> As anyone who’s ever worked at a TV network knows, sometimes the only thing worse than a flop is having a hit on your air.  AMC is learning this lesson the hard way:  it’s endured messy, extended renewal talks for Mad Men and the loss of The Walking Dead‘s showrunner over the past year […]

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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Sunday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 5.16.2021

Posted May 18, 2021 by Mitch Metcalf

      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: Sunday May 16, 2021 P18-49 P2+ Rank […]

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THE SKED: Showtime and Starz Not In a “Magic City”

Posted April 10, 2012 by Mitch Salem

>Numbers continue to come in for this past weekend’s scripted cable premieres. The biggest disappointment came at Starz, with Friday’s official arrival of MAGIC CITY, an expensive and heavily-marketed dramatic series. Although the network has released a flood of numbers designed to make the show sound more successful than it was, the key figure is […]

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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Monday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 6.21.2021

Posted June 22, 2021 by Mitch Metcalf

      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: Monday June 21, 2021 P18-49 P2+ Rank […]

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