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 13: March 22-28, 2021 Broadcast News: Current Week Broadcast News: Same Week Last Year   Broadcast Late Night: Current […]

  It really takes some doing to have ratings too low for CW on Friday nights, but CULT pulled it off, yanked from the network’s schedule with almost half of its episodes still unaired.  (Last week Cult had a 0.2 rating in 18-49s and was watched by a total of 622,000 viewers.)  For the rest of […]

>This past week in cable, ESPN’s Monday Night Football drifted down to a 4.9 rating with Adults 18-49, still the highest-rated cable program by far.  NFL Network’s Thursday Night Football rose to a 2.9 rating. AMC’s Walking Dead continues to soften but remains the top-rated scripted series on cable.  About one rating point behind Walking […]

> It was a sleepy first Friday for premiere week. CBS:  The network’s marketing team doesn’t have all that much to boast about this week:  2 Broke Girls had a monster opening, but that was because of its even more monstrous 2 1/2 Men lead-in, and now A GIFTED MAN follows Unforgettable and Person of […]

A newsmagazine took the crown on a mostly down night. NBC:  There must have been some reason why DATELINE zoomed 0.6 from last week, increasing its rating by more than 50% and topping the night with a 1.7.  Whatever it was, the show should consider trying it again.  The evening started with a decent 1.5 […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  The AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS stayed at 2.4, equal to last year’s final rating.  SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL adjusted to 7.0, up 1.2 from last week.  Elsewhere, 60 MINUTES dropped 0.2 and MADAM SECRETARY faded by 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  It was another night of college basketball-driven adjustments.  The entire CBS line-up fell 0.1 in final numbers.  On NBC, DATELINE and the SUPERSTORE rerun dropped 0.2, and the SNL rerun was down 0.1.  The BIG EAST TOURNAMENT game and the SHOWTIME AT THE APOLLO rerun on FOX were both […]

  HBO announced today that its new Aaron Sorkin series THE NEWSROOM has been renewed for a 2d season, and that TRUE BLOOD will be back for Season 6.  Newsroom is the most talked-about new show of the summer, and True Blood is the network’s biggest hit, so neither of these decisions was in any […]