A special BACHELORETTE didn’t do much to dent AMERICA’S GOT TALENT. 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). […]

  Another bad debut for a CBS drama. 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 […]

  THE VOICE returned to remind THE BACHELOR who the boss is on Mondays. 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 […]

  With live coverage of football and President Obama’s address to the families of Newtown, last night’s ratings won’t really be clear until final numbers are released tomorrow.  What follows is a very preliminary account. CBS:  The SURVIVOR finale had the advantage of a huge (8.5) lead-in from an afternoon NFL overrun, and it’s currently […]

> One network dominated all of primetime last night… FOX:  …and it wasn’t FOX.  You can’t call TERRA NOVA a disaster–a 3.1 rating (slightly adjusted from Mitch Metcalf’s report) is a decent number these days, and the show did hold its audience solidly through all of the 2-hour premiere–but given the massive hype, not to […]

  ABC:  The network’s hope of creating an early summer sensation with 500 QUESTIONS is dying on the vine, as the game show fell yet again, down 0.2 from Thursday (which was down 0.2 from Wednesday) to 0.8.  20/20 was down 0.1 from last week to 1.0, and also down 0.1 from the SHARK TANK […]

  Some marginal shifts. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary live+same day 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 […]

Monday ratings.  CBS’s Under the Dome (2.5 adult 18-49 fast national rating last night, probably going up to a 2.6 in the official nationals later today) is down from recent levels (2.8 rating average the last three weeks),  but the dip is probably more related to unusually strong competition from ABC’s Bachelorette finale night than the ongoing blackout from […]