>In the past seven days of cable programs, HBO’s TRUE BLOOD leads the way in Adults 18-49 rating.  The next ten spots in the chart is a cavalcade of white trash characters and concepts, from PAWN STARS to WWE wrestling.  Additionally, USA’s Thursday drama duo of BURN NOTICE and SUITS easily makes our list of […]

  A good night for CBS. 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 follows the […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  Reruns at 0.37/0.24/0.22. CBS:  Reruns at 0.36/0.31/0.30. NBC:  AMERICA’S GOT TALENT fell a tenth to 0.67, and FAMILY GAME FIGHT returned at 0.32. FOX:  Reruns at 0.16/0.11. CW:  After a rerun SUPERMAN & LOIS at 0.03, the series finale of TOM SWIFT dropped 0.02 to 0.03. TELEMUNDO:  CASA DE FAMOSOS gained […]

  A fair amount of coming and going on what’s usually a sleepy night. 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 […]

  The newly-rehired CELEBRITY APPRENTICE finale earned a blah reference. 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 […]

> As anyone who’s ever worked at a TV network knows, sometimes the only thing worse than a flop is having a hit on your air.  AMC is learning this lesson the hard way:  it’s endured messy, extended renewal talks for Mad Men and the loss of The Walking Dead‘s showrunner over the past year […]

Here are the weekend sports ratings for Saturday and Sunday August 11-12, 2018.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 300K P2+).  Programs are grouped by sport and ranked within each sport by P2+ audience size. For comparison, here is the same chart for the same weekend last year, August 12-13, […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  SHARK TANK returned from a week off steady at 0.55.  20/20 jumped 0.33 to 0.49. CBS:  UNDERCOVER BOSS dropped 0.05 to 0.36, MAGNUM PI rose 0.06 to 0.41, and BLUE BLOODS was up 0.03 to 0.46. NBC:  PARALYMPICS coverage was at 0.19, and DATELINE fell a tenth to 0.27.  A rerun […]