NETWORK FINALS:  As expected, football adjustments pushed ABC’s line-up down, with both DANCING WITH THE STARS and LIVING EVERY DAY: LUKE BRYAN down 0.2 in finals.  In addition, THE GIFTED fell 0.1.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  ESPN’s MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL climbed […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  CBS’s NFL PLAYOFFS game adjusted to 7.9.  Elsewhere, the entire NBC line-up adjusted:  the WILL & GRACE rerun down 0.3 to 1.5, the SUPERSTORE rerun down 0.3 to 0.8, DATELINE down 0.3 to 0.6, and the SNL rerun down 0.1 to 0.8.           Broadcast Official Nationals […]

  THE X-FILES continued downward. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary key advertiser demographics (adult 18-34, 18-49 and 25-54 ratings), audience skews (women 18-49, men 18-49 and adults 50+ shares) and total viewership (thousands of people over the age of 2). Ratings analysis and comparisons follow the chart. […]

      NETWORK FINALS:  WORLD OF DANCE and the 10:30PM rerun of SPLITTING UP TOGETHER lost 0.1 in final numbers.           Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  USA’s WWE SMACKDOWN led Tuesday cable, up a tick to 0.67, with CHRISLEY KNOWS BEST up 0.02 to 0.52, and […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL adjusted to 7.0, up a full point from last week’s game.  DANCING WITH THE STARS JR, FAMILY GUY and NCIS: LA gained 0.1 in final numbers, while THE ALEC BALDWIN SHOW and GOD FRIENDED ME lost the same.           Broadcast Official Nationals Program […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  There were no changes from this morning’s numbers in today’s final ratings. Ratings in key demos for the Top 25 original cable telecasts (plus a few other lower-rated but noteworthy programs): As is usual for Mondays, cable bragging rights belonged to USA and VH1.  The former’s WWE was at 1.46-1.32 over its 3 […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  HOLLYWOOD GAME NIGHT fell 0.1 in final numbers, as did the rerun of NCIS: NEW ORLEANS. CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Discovery’s DEADLIEST CATCH ruled Tuesday cable, up 0.14 to 1.00, and with its lead-in DEADLIEST CATCH: THE BAIT at 0.49.  THE HAVES AND HAVE NOTS (OWN) rose 0.08 to 0.89.  On Spike, INK MASTER and […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  (NOTE:  because of the NFL preemptions last night, comparisons are to last Thursday’s final ratings, not to this morning’s preliminaries.)  On ABC, ASTRONAUTS WIVES CLUB and ROOKIE BLUE remained at last week’s 0.6, while MISTRESSES climbed 0.1 to 0.7.  On CBS, the MOM reruns, at 0.7/0.8, were far below last week’s BIG BANG THEORY/MOM reruns at […]