OPENINGS: With the addition of Saturday and overseas numbers, SOLO (Lucasfilm/Disney) is starting to shift from a disappointment to a potential disaster. In the US, Solo fell 30% on Saturday (by comparison, last year...
The Upfronts are still 3 months away, but CW has charged ahead and issued renewals for–mostly–its hit series, with new seasons ordered for THE VAMPIRE DIARIES, THE ORIGINALS, SUPERNATURAL, ARROW and REIGN. ...
THE EMMYS held its early number. 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 ...
HELLO LADIES: Sunday 10:30PM on HBO HBO sure loves it some Ricky Gervais-ian British comedy. Apart from his stand-up specials, over the past few years the network has aired Extras, Life’s Too Short and The Rick...
Last night’s numbers were generally slightly up from last Tuesday, but still minimal. NBC: AMERICA’S GOT TALENT rose 0.1 to 2.5, enough to win the night. Similarly, a new episode of OFF THEIR ROCKERS was ...
THE MAYOR: Tuesday 9:30PM on ABC – Worth A Click The premise for ABC’s breezy THE MAYOR is wall-to-wall gimmick, in a likable way. Courtney Rose (Brandon Micheal Hall) is a young aspiring rapper in the sm...
BROADCAST FINALS: Due to the combination of holidays, football and specials, the English-language networks hadn’t aired their regular Sunday line-ups in several months, so we won’t be including weekly compa...
SKYFALL: Worth A Ticket – Bond Reborn For years–decades, actually–there have been periodic murmurings that a “real” director would one day take the helm of a James Bond movie. At various...
OPENINGS: THE LITTLE MERMAID (Disney) began its run with $95.5M over the 3-day weekend, projected to $117.5M with the Monday holiday. That’s within the range of pre-release projections, and if the numbers hold,...
OPENINGS: KINGSMAN: THE GOLDEN CIRCLE (MARV/20th) took the weekend, but at $39M it was below Fox’s minimal target number of $40M. Since sequels burn out faster than initial films in a series, Golden Circle will p...
The Bachelor dominates the night. (Also, a housekeeping note: as you’ll see below, we’ve now including not just nightly and year-ago charts in these daily reports, but also the 6-week track of all the night̵...
Another week’s worth of ratings are in, and once again, we ask: what do we know now that we didn’t know a week ago? NEXT CALLER MUST HAVE BEEN A REALLY, REALLY BAD SHOW. Last week NBC stopped production o...
NETWORK UPDATE: RISING STAR and WIPEOUT swapped 0.1s, with RISING STAR on the low end–in fact, it was ABC’s lowest-rated original show of the night. On CBS, BIG BROTHER went up even higher to 2.2, but REC...
THE BLACKLIST: Monday 10PM on NBC Previously… on THE BLACKLIST: Raymond Reddington (James Spader), debonair Public Enemy #1, has turned himself in to the FBI, willing to surrender and spill everything he knows ...