BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  Reruns at 0.30/0.30/0.23. CBS:  Reruns at 0.26/0.17/0.15/0.14. NBC:  US OPEN coverage at 1.06 was followed by a rerun at 0.34. FOX:  A USFL game at 0.14. CW:  Reruns at 0.02/0.05/0.05/0.02. TELEMUNDO:  Movies at 0.13/0.16. UNIVISION:  A CONCACAF match at 0.62.   Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  AMC’s […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  ELEMENTARY lost 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Thursday means a cable win for TLC’s DR PIMPLE POPPER, steady at 0.52, with UNTOLD STORIES OF THE ER down 0.04 to 0.22.  On MTV, JERSEY SHORE was at […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  After adjustment for local MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL coverage, THE VOICE lost 0.1 and NURSES dropped 0.2.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  ESPN’s MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL was at 3.57, up 1.12 from last week’s game (which was shared with ABC).  Bravo’s […]

>Really weak ratings for both ESPN’s Monday Night Football and NFL Network’s Thursday Night Football this week, but both still landed at the top of the cable ratings chart with Adults 18-49.  Following close behind the Thursday night NFL game were unscripted king Storage Wars and top scripted show Sons of Anarchy, both of which […]

      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 […]

> Creatively, last night’s season finale of BREAKING BAD was extraordinary in almost every way (how long till the final 16 episodes start airing?).  In the ratings, according to TV By the Numbers it did quite well, but not quite up to the mark of its season premiere (around a 0.9 rating as opposed to […]

      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 May 18, 2021 P18-49 P2+ Rank […]

> VEEP, properly enough, was #2 on HBO’s Sunday ticket. HBO:  VEEP premiered with a fairly strong 0.6 in 18-49s on its initial Sunday airing, plus another .14 for its repeat later that night (remember, HBO ratings reflect only 25% of US households, so they’re 4x as strong as they look).  That was, not unexpectedly, […]