>Taste, elegance and intelligence tops the weekly cable programming chart.  The parade starts with the young adults of Jersey Shore, moves across the Hudson River as Kourtney & Kim Take New York, touches the LA area with Pawn Stars, and one it goes through Teen Mom, WWE wrestling, Real Housewives, etc.  It’s not the classiest […]

  Below are the ratings in key demos for Sunday’s Top 25 original cable telecasts, plus a few more of interest.  If you’d like additional lower-rated series included in the latter list, please let us know.  Some analysis and context follow the chart. Several networks took the Sunday of Labor Day weekend off, notably HBO, […]

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 & […]

  NOTE:  ALL RATINGS INCLUDE APPLICABLE ADJUSTMENTS. ABC:  The season finale of THE BACHELOR was at 2.8, up 0.4 from last week but down half a point from last year’s finale.  The AFTER THE FINAL ROSE post-show was at 2.7. NBC:  THE VOICE held very well against the increased competition on ABC, down just 0.1 […]

> CBS won the night last night, mostly with the NCAA Basketball Championship.  The preliminary rating for the night matches last year’s mark, although the individual program ratings for CBS Monday (two comedy repeats and the basketball game) will be adjusted significantly as the time zone viewing is sorted out on this unusually formatted night.  […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  The only adjustment from this morning was a 0.1 bump for MASTERCHEF. CABLE UPDATE:  The season finale of DUCK DYNASTY jumped by two-tenths to 1.04, easily winning the cable night.  However, that was down a tremendous 0.39 from the August 2014 finale.  Lead-out WAHLBURGERS only benefited from the DYNASTY finale to the tune […]

  The last Monday spin of fall for THE BIG BANG THEORY. 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). […]

  PARKS & RECREATION’s fans showed up for the beginning of the end. 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 […]