Scandal is on its way to becoming a phenomenon. ABC:  With the season finale still to come, last night’s SCANDAL set a series record 3.2.  That was up an incredible 0.6 from last week, up 0.3 from its lead-in, and towers over anything else airing at 10PM on network TV.  For its part, GREY’S […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  Both DANCING WITH THE STARS and the CASTLE season finale were up 0.1 in final numbers.  The same was true for FRIENDS WITH BETTER LIVES and BONES.  But 24: LIVE ANOTHER DAY and THE BLACKLIST stayed put (so BLACKLIST was actually down for its season finale), and both the STAR-CROSSED series finale […]

  The burn-off fire grew larger, but not brighter. 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 follows […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  Returning from 2 weeks of reruns, THE CONNERS ticked up to 0.49, THE GOLDBERGS dipped 0.03 to 0.34, ABBOTT ELEMENTARY lost 0.04 to 0.45, and NOT DEAD YET was steady at 0.31.  A MILLION LITTLE THINGS held at 0.21. CBS:  SURVIVOR dropped 0.05 to 0.71.  After a rerun, TRUE LIES gained […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  Game 4 of the NBA FINALS adjusted to 2.9, down 1.4 from 2019’s Game 4.  In addition, FBI DECLASSIFIED and ELLEN’S GAME OF GAMES gained 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  TBS’s MLB PLAYOFFS games were at […]

> A night mostly on pause for college football. ABC:  Although the network took the night, it wasn’t able to make as much hay with its female-skewing programming as one might have expected, on an evening where the main event was the BCS Championship college football game on ESPN.  THE BACHELOR, facing repeats on 3 […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  BACHELOR IN PARADISE fell 0.14 to 0.49, and THE ROOKIE: FEDS ticked up to 0.25. CBS:  Reruns at 0.35/0.30/0.27. NBC:  THE VOICE lost 0.06 to 0.56, LA BREA dipped 0.03 to 0.32, and NEW AMSTERDAM was up 0.02 to 0.29. FOX:  Game 3 of THE WORLD SERIES was at 2.60, up […]

> This morning we anticipated that the season finale of THE WALKING DEAD on AMC would outrate anything on network television last night, but that didn’t do justice to Dead‘s accomplishment.  In the finale’s initial airing (it was repeated later in the evening), it broke Dead‘s own record as the highest-rated cable television drama ever, […]