NETWORK FINALS:  THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL adjusted to 4.2, up 0.2 from last week’s final rating.  Elsewhere, SUPERNATURAL gained 0.1 in final numbers, and YOUNG SHELDON lost the same.           Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGILIGHTS:  Basketball and football topped Thursday cable.  TNT’s NBA doubleheader […]

      NETWORK FINALS:  MASTERCHEF, REVERIE and the rerun of AMERICAN HOUSEWIFE gained 0.1 in final numbers.  As expected, baseball adjustment reduced the CW reruns to 0.1/0.1.       Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  VH1’s BLACK INK CREW led Wednesday cable at 0.53, down a tick from last […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL adjusted up to 5.9 in final numbers, a point above last week’s game.  Elsewhere, HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER gained 0.1. Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart    CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  The NFL Network piece of THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL didn’t have the same bounce as the network portion, and […]

        NETWORK UPDATE:  Lots of afternoon adjustments, mostly unhelpful.  TIMELESS, LUCIFER, DANCING WITH THE STARS and CONVICTION each lost 0.1, while THE BIG BANG THEORY, as it usually does, picked up the same.          Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  ESPN’s MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL dropped […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  The post-NFL adjustment gods were kind to CBS, where 60 MINUTES rose 0.2 to 2.7, and STAR TREK: DISCOVERY went up 0.3 to 1.9; in addition, the NCIS: LA rerun gained 0.1.  SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL adjusted to 6.3, down 0.8 from last week’s game.  On ABC, CELEBRITY FAMILY FEUD […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  RISE fell 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  The Season 2 premiere of FX’s LEGION was at 0.30, which was down 0.39 from last year’s series premiere, and down 0.12 from the Season 1 finale.  The official […]

  For anyone who missed this morning’s introduction:  below are last night’s Top 25 original cable telecasts, which in this case gets us all the way to the 159th-most watched show on cable Monday night, because of the avalanche of reruns that clog the full list.  The demographic categories below should be self-explanatory, and the green and […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  As we noted in yesterday’s Network Scorecard text, the GOLDEN GLOBES adjusted to 5.0 in final numbers.  In addition, after football adjustments, THE SIMPSONS fell 0.6 to 2.8, and GHOSTED was down 0.2 to 1.6.  Elsewhere, the 9PM SHARK TANK rose 0.1 to 1.4.         Broadcast […]