NETWORK FINALS:  After adjustment for the NFL overrun, THE SIMPSONS fell 0.6 in final numbers, and BOB’S BURGERS, FAMILY GUY and REL were all down 0.1.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Bravo’s DIRTY JOHN had an impressive finale, up 0.16 to 0.59 […]

  Monday cable was dominated, as usual, by the unscripted (well, let’s pretend they’re unscripted) WWE WRESTLING on USA and LOVE & HIP-HOP ATLANTA on VH1.  (With VH1 back on DirecTV, Love & Hip-Hop had a big ratings bump from 1.5 to 2.0–it’s also notable for a tremendous 1.1 additional rating in its 10PM reairing, […]

NBC:  AQUARIUS (remember, already renewed for a 2d season!) fell 0.1 with its move to Saturday to a new low 0.3.  The sparse but committed fans of HANNIBAL, though, followed their show, which maintained its 0.4.  Both were outrated by the 0.5 for a rerun of RUNNING WILD. CBS:  Still burning off episodes of THE […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  DATELINE and MY LAST DAYS each lost 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  ESPN’s NBA PLAYOFFS game dominated the night at 2.94.  Food Network’s DINERS, DRIVE-INS & DIVES was the highest-rated show not related to basketball at […]

>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 […]

  TUESDAY TNT:  RIZZOLI & ISLES dipped a bit, down 150,000 total viewers to 5.3M and down 0.1 in the 18-49 demo to 1.0, and PERCEPTION followed suit, down by just about the same margins to 3.4M total viewers and 0.7 in the demo. USA:  The numbers for SUITS and to a lesser extent COVERT […]

  Another NBC vs CBS showdown–but this one goes the other way. CBS:  Two-thirds of a remarkable night.  The back-to-back episodes of THE BIG BANG THEORY that served as its Season 7 premiere were spectacular at 5.3/5.8, not just the highest network scores of the week (barring football), but up from last year’s 5.0 for […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  The ACM AWARDS gained 0.1 in final numbers, while the rerun of THE GOLDBERGS lost the same.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  On a night with no NBA games, Bravo’s REAL HOUSEWIVES OF BEVERLY HILLS occupied the top of Wednesday […]