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The Sked: Unofficial Standings for the First Two Weeks of the Season

Posted October 8, 2012 by Mitch Metcalf

With two weeks of the new season under our belts (11 nights of official ratings and 3 nights of adjusted fast national ratings), here is how the season stands for the four major networks:   Thanks to The Voice moving into the fall this year, NBC is the only network to show growth through the first four […]

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THE SKED: Monday Ratings Charts

Posted September 24, 2013 by Mitch Metcalf

Monday ratings last night, last year and last week:

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Weekly Network Ratings — CBS Pulls Into First Place for the Season

Posted February 4, 2013 by Mitch Metcalf

THE WEEK.  For the recently completed week ending Sunday (January 28-February 3, 2013), CBS of course dominated with the Super Bowl, achieving a preliminary 9.04 adult 18-49 rating for the week.  This assumes about a 40.6 rating during prime time on Sunday (estimated from the 35.3 non-time-zone-adjusted fast national rating).  Last year, NBC scored a 7.66 rating […]

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The Sked: WEDNESDAY RATINGS January 18 Update

Posted January 19, 2012 by Mitch Metcalf

>American Idol returned to the air down 26% from last year.  It still dominates the night, but it raises many questions.  Is the singing contest sub-genre tired as a whole?  Did X Factor lessen interest in Idol‘s return?  Are viewers tiring of the Idol judges?  And most intriguingly, is this a good sign or a […]

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THE SKED’S TUESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 3/12/13

Posted March 13, 2013 by Mitch Salem

With the NCIS shows in reruns, only one series even reached a 2 last night. FOX:  The season premiere of KITCHEN NIGHTMARES was at 2.2, down a very reasonable 0.2 from last year and the highest-rated show on a slow night. ABC:  CELEBRITY WIFE SWAP edged up to 1.6, but the finale of THE TASTE […]

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THE SKED: CBS Fall Schedule and Instant Analysis

Posted May 16, 2012 by Mitch Salem

  When you’re CBS, you don’t have to do much.   J   Let’s take a look, night by night: MONDAY:  CBS confounded expectations by not expanding its comedy presence on Thursdays.  So it was less important that the sitcom moving over there have a long potential lifespan, which allowed the network to instead shift […]

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SHOWBUZZDAILY MONDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 12.9.2019

Posted December 10, 2019 by Mitch Metcalf

  THE MOODYS can’t end soon enough for FOX. 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 […]

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UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Wednesday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 10.25.2017

Posted October 26, 2017 by Mitch Metcalf

        NETWORK FINALS:  WORLD SERIES Game 2 had a smaller adjustment in finals than Game 1, up 0.3 to 4.2, which left it down 0.6 from 2016’s Game 2.  Elsewhere, DESIGNATED SURVIVOR fell 0.1 to a new low 0.7, and THE BLACKLIST also lost 0.1.         Broadcast Official Nationals […]

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