Shondaland is open for business. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment) Thursday, 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 […]

      NETWORK FINALS:  DATELINE gained 0.1 in final numbers, and both THE VAMPIRE DIARIES and BLUE BLOODS fell 0.1.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Discovery was at the top of Friday cable with GOLD RUSH, down a tick to 1.06, and lead-out THE WHEEL […]

NBC dominated the broadcast networks on the first Monday of the summer season with a 1.9 rating from 8-11 pm, although NBC will come in behind ESPN which aired Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Finals between the Boston Celtics and Miami Heat (that rating to be released later today along with the other cable […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  There were no changes from the preliminary Friday ratings.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Discovery’s GOLD RUSH was at 0.58/0.49/0.32, compared to last week’s 0.39/0.33/0.22.  A&E’s LIVE PD gained 0.03 to 0.56, with the lead-in hour up 0.02 to 0.28.  […]

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). ###

  AFTERNOON UPDATE:  INTELLIGENCE added a meaningless 0.1 in final numbers, giving it a still-terrible 1.2.  THE BACHELOR (up to 2.3) and MOM (2.2) also gained 0.1. MONDAY CABLE:  The first Monday airing of ARCHER slipped a bit from its Thursday finale last April, down 0.1 to 1.0, but the bigger concern for FX is […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  DATELINE slipped 0.1 from its early number, but CROSSBONES held steady.  On ABC, both WHAT WOULD YOU DO? and the SHARK TANK rerun rose 0.1.  FRIDAY CABLE:  WWE (Syfy) was on top with 0.8, up 0.2 from last week.  DINERS, DRIVE-INS & DIVES (Food Channel) and a History Channel special D-DAY IN […]

  Last night, the hills were, without a doubt, alive. NBC:  What’s on the drawing board this morning at NBC?  Hello, Dolly with Miley Cyrus?  Kanye West in Fiddler On the Roof?  Katy Perry as Mame?  Sweeney Todd with Eminem and Taylor Swift as the serial-killing cannibals?  (Actually, that one…)  In what has to be […]