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UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Sunday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 9.2.2018

Posted September 5, 2018 by Mitch Metcalf

        NETWORK FINALS:  ABC’s COLLEGE FOOTBALL game adjusted up to 2.0.  On CBS, BIG BROTHER gained 0.1 in final numbers, but the rest of the line-up lost the same.           Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  POWER tied for the Sunday cable lead, down a […]

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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Sunday 7.31.2022 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED

Posted August 2, 2022 by Mitch Salem

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  After a rerun AMERICA’S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS at 0.39, CELEBRITY FAMILY FEUD gained 0.06 to 0.56.  The rest of the line-up swapped timeslots, with THE $100,000 PYRAMID up 0.08 to 0.45, and THE FINAL STRAW down 0.13 to 0.26. CBS:  Sandwiched between reruns at 0.38/0.20/0.20, BIG BROTHER jumped 0.15 to 0.83. […]

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UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Sunday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 2.18.2018

Posted February 21, 2018 by Mitch Metcalf

        NETWORK FINALS:  The WINTER OLYMPICS adjusted up by 0.2.  Elsewhere, the BROOKLYN NINE-NINE rerun lost 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  TNT’s NBA ALL-STAR GAME predictably took the night with 2.76, up 0.13 from 2016 (which faced THE WALKING […]

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UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Thursday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 10.29.2020

Posted October 30, 2020 by Mitch Metcalf

        NETWORK FINALS:  MATCH GAME, CONNECTING and the YOUNG SHELDON rerun gained 0.1 in final numbers.  In addition, THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL adjusted to 3.4, up 0.02 from last week’s game.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  NFL Network’s share of THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL was […]

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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Tuesday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 6.29.2021

Posted June 30, 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: Tuesday June 29, 2021 P18-49 P2+ Rank […]

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UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Monday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 12.3.2018

Posted December 4, 2018 by Mitch Salem

        NETWORK FINALS:  Unusually, ABC’s shows didn’t decline after adjustment for NFL preemption.  However, THE NEIGHBORHOOD, which had no such excuse, did lose 0.1.  In addition, ARROW gained 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  ESPN’s MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL was at […]

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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 100 Sunday Cable Originals (& Network Update): 6.14.2015

Posted June 16, 2015 by Mitch Metcalf

  NETWORK UPDATE:  The NBA FINALS adjusted up to 7.6 in final numbers, and the pre-game primetime JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE fell correspondingly to 0.9.  In addition, the rerun of THE SIMPSONS gained 0.1. CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  The hand-wringing about all the terrible things that happen on GAME OF THRONES certainly isn’t hurting the ratings, as its season finale was […]

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THE SKED: It’s Not LUCK; It’s HBO

Posted January 31, 2012 by Mitch Salem

> On virtually any network in America, the discovery that a hugely expensive new series–stocked with the highest-caliber talent, preceded by a multi-million dollar marketing campaign–had been watched in its debut by little more than a million people, and that fewer than half a million of those were younger than 50 years old, would be […]

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