America’s Got Talent dominated another slow summer Tuesday. NBC:  FOOD FIGHTERS is currently up 0.1 to 1.1, and AMERICA’S GOT TALENT is down 0.2 to 1.9, but it wouldn’t be a surprise to see a shuffling between them when final numbers are released this afternoon.  In any case, Talent was by far the highest-rated […]

NETWORK UPDATE:  AMERICA’S NEXT TOP MODEL’s season premiere lost an additional 0.1 in adjusted ratings that it couldn’t afford to shed, ending up at an anemic 0.4.  RUNNING WILD and AMERICAN NINJA WARRIOR also lost 0.1 each.  MISTRESSES, though, won back 0.1. Below are the night’s Top 25 Monday cable originals, plus a few extra […]

  The new season gets underway!  (Sort of.) CW:  The network took a jump on the fall TV season by debuting the newest cycle of AMERICA’S NEXT TOP MODEL at 0.5.  That was 0.1 below last season’s premiere, which started even earlier (on August 2).  It wasn’t a good sign that Model came in below […]

You’ll see below that we’ve added a new feature to our Cable Originals chart:  some notable titles that don’t make the day’s Top 25 but are still worth attention.  We’re not going to be able to provide a voluminous list of these “extra” shows, but if you have any particular titles that you’d like us […]

  In addition to the shows below, note that the 2d episode of THE KNICK (Cinemax) didn’t make the chart (it was #43 of the night’s cable originals) with a 0.13 rating in 18-49s and 419K total viewers.  That was encouragingly up from last week’s premiere (0.10/354K), although this week’s episode wasn’t available for viewing on VOD […]

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday August 16 and Sunday August 17, 2014. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. Golf PGA Tour: Wyndham Championship 1.0 rating CBS 3:00 pm Saturday 3rd Round (+14% from 0.9 […]

  For American viewers, even preseason football is football. FOX:  The preseason NFL FOOTBALL game between Indianapolis and the NY Giants scored 2.0, easily giving FOX the night, although the game wasn’t quite the highest rated show of the evening. CBS:  BIG BROTHER was up 0.1 from last week (when it aired out of its […]

  The day’s top 25 cable originals are listed below (actually reaching #134 on the night’s overall cable list, if reruns were included), with some context and analysis under that.  But first: NETWORK UPDATE:  The football adjustments didn’t affect NBC’s numbers, but all of ABC’s shows lost 0.1 in the final count.    Football trumped sharks […]