BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  CELEBRITY JEOPARDY was at 0.56, THE PARENT TEST was at 0.45, and THE CHASE returned at 0.31. CBS:  YOUNG SHELDON aired for the first time since December 8, up a tenth to 0.65.  The rest of the line-up aired for the first time since December 15, with GHOSTS steady at 0.59, […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  A SHARK BEACH special was at 0.28, followed by reruns at 0.29/0.26. CBS:  BIG BROTHER fell 0.15 to 0.66, and THE CHALLENGE was down 0.05 to 0.36.  A rerun followed at 0.16. NBC:  Reruns at 0.24/0.23/0.24. FOX:  Returning from a rerun week, MASTERCHEF gained 0.03 to 0.44, and SO YOU THINK […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  There were 0.1 bumps for SANTA CLAUS IS COMING TO TOWN, FROSTY THE SNOWMAN and FROSTY RETURNS in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   CABLE HIGHILGHTS:  ESPN’s primetime COLLEGE FOOTBALL game led Friday cable at 0.78.  On Discovery, GOLD RUSH was at […]

  Daylight Savings Time only made ABC’s Sunday troubles worse. ABC:  It’s getting harder to label ONCE UPON A TIME as a “hit,” with last night’s episode tying its series-low 2.2 and the numbers not much higher than that over the past 6 weeks.  Last night was down 0.7 from the same Sunday last year.  REVENGE fell below […]

  The key word of the night:  Down. 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 MASKED SINGER returned from its World Series break. 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). […]

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). PREVIOUS SATURDAY NETWORK SCORECARDS (FAST NATIONALS) PREVIOUS SATURDAY CABLE & […]

> On virtually any network in America, the discovery that a hugely expensive new series–stocked with the highest-caliber talent, preceded by a multi-million dollar marketing campaign–had been watched in its debut by little more than a million people, and that fewer than half a million of those were younger than 50 years old, would be […]