> A bad night at the Eye. CBS:  It’s lucky for CBS that one of its May Sweeps Sundays will be filled by the Survivor season finale, because the regular line-up is falling apart.  For no clear reason, the season’s penultimate AMAZING RACE took a 0.4 hit from last week, tying its season low 2.2.  […]

TNT’s much-hyped reboot of the venerable soap DALLAS got off to a good start, with a total viewership of 6.9 million people.  That’s the biggest launch of the year on basic cable, although it’s not even a record breaker for TNT itself, where Rizzoli & Isles and the now-dead Raising the Bar both debuted to […]

  Despite the fact that star/co-creator Danny McBride had talked about the 2012 season of EASTBOUND & DOWN as being (voluntarily) its last, and the season’s conclusion seeming to end the show’s story in a fairly satisfying way… like its antihero Kenny Powers, it’s ready for a comeback.  Vulture reports that a new 8-episode season […]

HBO’s True Blood remains the highest-rated cable program with Adults 18-49 on our weekly ranking.  But watch out HBO, the most down-market, lowest common denominator, tawdry program on television (USA’s WWE Monday Night Raw wrestling) is nipping at your heels.  Fans of wrestling really turned out for the 1,000th episode of this landmark television program, hitting a 2.4 rating […]

Even the Closing Ceremony did extraordinarily well this Olympics.  In the preliminary fast nationals, NBC averaged an 8.8 Adult 18-49 rating from 8-11 pm last night.  NBC usually runs the lower-rated 7 pm hour on the final night without commercials so that hour can be excluded from the nightly average.   (Even if the 7 […]

  ABC’s game shows should probably have stuck with reruns against the Olympics. 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 […]

NBC’s solid early premiere week continued well last night, with a first-place 3.0 Adult 18-49 rating from 8-11 pm.  This matches last Tuesday’s nightly rating with The Voice up this week over last, while the scripted shows from 9-11 pm were down somewhat week to week.  The Voice averaged a 4.5 in the preliminary fast nationals from 8-9 […]

  Not much excitement for a 1-hour FAST & FURIOUS 9 promo. 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 […]