> SHOWBUZZDAILY’S COMPLETE GUIDE TO THE FALL TV SEASON: MONDAY           Rating Projections                                 What to Watch TUESDAY          Rating Projections                                 What to Watch WEDNESDAY    Rating Projections (updated)                  What to Watch  THURSDAY       Rating Projections                                  What to Watch  FRIDAY             Rating Projections                                  What to Watch SATURDAY       Rating Projections                                   What to Watch  SUNDAY           Rating Projections                                   What to Watch […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  Reruns at 0.36/0.26/0.25. CBS:  Reruns at 0.28/0.21/0.22. NBC:  AMERICA’S GOT TALENT gained 0.03 to 0.66, and HOT WHEELS was up 0.05 to 0.31. FOX:  BEAT SHAZAM rose 0.06 to 0.23, and DON’T FORGET THE LYRICS ticked up to 0.23. CW:  Back from a rerun week, SUPERMAN & LOIS ticked up to […]

  The CBS Thursday line-up returned from its NCAA break. 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). […]

>CBS won Easter Sunday with the help of The Masters and a guy named Bubba, while the other networks, largely in repeats, failed to average above a 2 rating throughout the evening.                          Nightly Primetime Average Sunday         ABC    CBS    FOX […]

  Even the NBA PLAYOFFS didn’t make much impact. 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 […]

>The metered-market overnights, the first ratings available each day, show that NBC’s Awake finished in second place in the 10 pm hour to the repeat episode of The Mentalist on CBS.  Remember that the overnights reflect viewing in 56 of the largest television markets only (about half of the country), and the ratings and shares […]

NBC could have used Game 6 of the NHL Stanley Cup Final on Wednesday rather than Monday.  The 2.0 rating the concluding game generated Monday would have doubled last night’s rating for the regular NBC Wednesday line-up (instead of bumping a much higher-rated America’s Got Talent out of its pattern Monday night).  In any case, […]

The Christmas and New Year’s Day holidays will cause delays for daily national ratings (cable and broadcast finals) for a few weeks.  This is how the ratings should roll out over the holiday period.  We will update this schedule if anything changes.  (All times Pacific.) Last Week of December Thursday Dec 24 nationals rescheduled to Monday Dec 28 at […]