NETWORK UPDATE: The NCAA TOURNAMENT games adjusted slightly down, to 1.9/2.7. That put them respectively 0.1 below and 0.1 above last year’s Thursday Round of 16 games. (See Mitch Metcalf’s special SKEDBALL Report on Round of 16 ratings on broadcast and cable.) Elsewhere, AMERICAN CRIME gained 0.1, and the VAMPIRE DIARIES rerun lost 0.1. […]
NETWORK UPDATE: Final numbers for CBS’s NCAA TOURNAMENT coverage brought the night’s games down to 1.8/1.6. However, that was still far higher than last year’s adjusted 1.0/1.3. Elsewhere, the only change was a 0.1 drop for REIGN that brought the show to a less than royal 0.3. Ratings in key demos for the Top […]
NETWORK UPDATE: SCANDAL and AMERICAN IDOL gained 0.1 in final ratings, and although the “REAL BLACKLIST” branded DATELINE did as well, THE BLACKLIST itself did not. Meanwhile, things got worse at CBS, where THE ODD COUPLE, MOM and ELEMENTARY all lost 0.1. Ratings in key demos for the Top 25 original cable telecasts (plus […]
NETWORK UPDATE: THE BIG BANG THEORY, THE BLACKLIST and AMERICAN IDOL all gained 0.1 in final numbers. An additional note: quarter-hour numbers for AMERICAN CRIME reveal a somewhat troubling steady decline throughout the hour: 2.3/2.1/1.9/1.8. The drop at 10:15PM makes sense because some SCANDAL fans who tried it out would have decided to exit, […]
NETWORK UPDATE: AMERICAN IDOL and THE BLACKLIST each gained 0.1 in final numbers, as did the BIG BANG THEORY rerun. The VAMPIRE DIARIES rerun lost 0.1. Ratings in key demos for the Top 25 original cable telecasts (plus a few other lower-rated but noteworthy programs): The front half of TNT’s NBA doubleheader took top honors […]