NETWORK UPDATE:  SHARK TANK gained 0.1 in final Friday ratings, and BLUE BLOODS dropped 0.1. Ratings in key demos for the Top 25 original cable telecasts (plus a few other lower-rated but noteworthy programs): GOLD RUSH (Discovery) jumped up two-tenths from last week to lead Friday cable at 1.27, and its lead-out EDGE OF […]

  BROADCAST FINALS:  ABC’s telecast of UFC PRELIMS was at 0.23.  FOX’s MLB game was at 0.20.    Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   CABLE HIGHLIGHTS: Discovery’s SHARK WEEK came to an end with SHARKS IN PARADISE at 0.16, MONSTERS OF THE CAPE at 0.15, JACKASS SHARK WEEK at 0.13, and RISE OF THE […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  SPEECHLESS and DATELINE each lost 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Fox Sports 1’s MLB PLAYOFFS game topped Friday cable at 1.13.  Discovery’s GOLD RUSH returned at 0.64, with the lead-in hour at 0.29.  A&E’s LIVE PD […]

  Everyone knows that TV is a pitiless business, where a show lives or dies by the ratings it receives. Except… not always. Today, VH1 announced that it was renewing its time-travel dramedy Hindsight, even though the show’s Season 1 finale had a 0.17 rating in 18-49s, losing 70% of its Mob Wives lead-in.  (And […]

Ratings in key demos for the Top 25 original cable telecasts (plus a few other lower-rated but noteworthy programs): TBS and TNT’s NCAA FINAL FOUR games had the spotlight on Saturday cable, with TBS scoring 3.25 for Duke vs. Michigan State and 5.48 for Kentucky vs. Wisconsin, and TNT at 1.05/1.44 for the games.  The […]

>History’s Pawn Stars tops this week’s cable chart, with a 2.0 rating from 10:00-10:30 pm Monday with Adults 18-49.  Usually the 10:30 pm Pawn Stars is slightly higher rated (up a tenth of a rating point or two from 10:00 pm), but this week’s 10:30 episode came in a tenth of a point lower at […]

    NETWORK FINALS:  OLYMPICS coverage adjusted up 0.1 in final numbers, but FOX’s baseball game lost the same.  Local preseason NFL preemptions may have caused some of the other shifts:  on ABC, the SHARK TANK rerun and 20/20 each lost 0.2, and WHAT WOULD YOU DO was down 0.3; on CBS, the reruns of […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  The reruns of AMERICAN HOUSEWIFE and THE FLASH fell 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  It was a strong night for OWN, where THE HAVES AND HAVE NOTS returned at 0.69, and the first part of the […]