NETWORK FINALS: There were no changes from the preliminary Friday ratings. Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart CABLE HIGHLIGHTS: Discovery’s GOLD RUSH was at 0.58/0.49/0.32, compared to last week’s 0.39/0.33/0.22. A&E’s LIVE PD gained 0.03 to 0.56, with the lead-in hour up 0.02 to 0.28. […]
>AMC’s Walking Dead is the new king of the weekly cable ratings chart, with a terrific 4.2 Adult 18-49 rating for Sunday’s season premiere. Read more on the Walking Dead premiere here. The rest of the top-rated cable programs are pretty much unchanged. While Jersey Shore continues its downward trend, the other MTV hit, Teen […]
> According to TV By the Numbers, the season premiere of TRUE BLOOD on Sunday night had 5.4 million viewers (a virtual tie with its all-time high) and a 3.0 rating in 18-49s (slightly below its previous high). Considering that HBO repeats its shows nonstop through the week and on VOD (a million extra viewers […]
BROADCAST HIGHLIGHTS: ABC: Reruns at 0.20-0.37. CBS: BIG BROTHER dipped 0.02 to 0.99, followed by reruns at 0.23-0.32. NBC: BROOKLYN NINE-NINE was at 0.40/0.33 compared to last week’s 0.40/0.28. The season finale of MAKING IT grew by a tenth to 0.33. A LAW & ORDER: ORGANIZED CRIME rerun ended the night at 0.22. […]
> Although cable networks have become much more aggressive with their in-season scripted programming in recent years (Sunday nights this season are at least as much about cable shows as they are broadcast), summer is still when those networks really come out and play. Today TNT announced the premiere dates for its very busy summer […]
BROADCAST HIGHLIGHTS: ABC: After a rerun AMERICA’S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS at 0.55, CELEBRITY FAMILY FEUD rose 0.04 to 0.57, THE CHASE dropped 0.13 to 0.47, and TO TELL THE TRUTH was down a tenth to 0.37. CBS: BIG BROTHER lost 0.07 to 0.99. It was preceded by a rerun 60 MINUTES at 0.70, and […]
USA: The season premieres of WHITE COLLAR and COVERT AFFAIRS were significantly down from last year’s summer launches, and we won’t know until next week if that’s attributable to premiering against baseball’s All-Star Game, with its older male audience. (Last year, the shows debuted in June instead of July.) Collar had a 1.0 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: Thursday June 3, 2021 P18-49 P2+ Rank […]