NETWORK FINALS:  The NCIS rerun lost 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  News led Tuesday cable, with Fox News’s TUCKER CARLSON TONIGHT at 0.44/0.68/4.5M, CNN’s SITUATION ROOM at 0.24/0.36/1.7M, and MSNBC’s RACHEL MADDOW SHOW at 0.23/0.37/2.9M.  OWN’s GREENLEAF jumped […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  NOTE–because of NFL exhibition game preemptions, comparisons are to last week’s final Saturday ratings, rather than preliminary Sunday morning numbers.  NBC:  the GYMNASTICS special adjusted to 0.5, and HANNIBAL was steady at 0.3.  CBS:  PGA CHAMPIONSHIP coverage pushed the primetime line-up by half an hour, and all the night’s reruns were down 0.2, to 0.3/0.5/0.6.  ABC:  the […]

  THE CARMICHAEL SHOW had an OK debut. 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 […]

Broadcast news and late night series ratings available below for this week and the same week last year. You can also search for other available weeks with the link at the bottom of this post. Week 20: May 11-May 17, 2020 Broadcast News: Current Week Broadcast News: Same Week Last Year   Broadcast Late Night: […]

  Conservative CBS is making lots of changes next fall. UPDATED with reactions to trailers, which are available here.     No network preaches the “Everything is just fine in broadcast TV” scripture louder than CBS, but the fact is that its biggest hits (The Big Bang Theory, NCIS, Survivor) are aging, and the network […]

  BROADCAST FINALS: ABC:  PRESS YOUR LUCK gained 0.08 to 0.55, and THE $100,000 PYRAMID was up 0.05 to 0.51.  However, SUPERSTAR dropped 0.06 to 0.28. CBS:  BIG BROTHER was steady at 0.95, and HOUSE CALLS fell 0.07 to 0.21.  A special 48 HOURS was at 0.22. NBC:  AMERICA’S GOT TALENT dipped 0.03 to 0.65, […]

  Agents of SHIELD has lost its superpowers. ABC;  One might reasonably have expected AGENTS OF SHIELD to benefit from the arrival of the blockbuster new Thor movie in theatres last weekend (the series is even planning a spin-off episode next week, although without any of the movie’s stars).  But instead, SHIELD plunged 0.3 to […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  Both THE BLACKLIST and SCANDAL gained 0.1 in final Thursday numbers, as did GREY’S ANATOMY and both episodes (the original and the rerun) of THE BIG BANG THEORY.  (There was no change for ALLEGIANCE.)  The only loser was THE VAMPIRE DIARIES, which lost 0.1 to return to last week’s 0.7 rating. Ratings […]