>Jersey Shore’s finale took the top spot on the cable chart this week. Not so much because it was up (it increased only one tenth of a rating point from last week) — rather, ESPN’s Monday Night Football ...
>A pretty typical week on cable in prime time, with ESPN’s Monday Night Football leading the way (Green Bay Packers thumping the Minnesota Vikings). On the scripted front, AMC’s Walking Dead is ahead by a mil...
>AMC’s Walking Dead is locking in on a 3.6 rating with Adults 18-49. The first five weeks of this season for the zombie apocalypse drama: 4.2… 3.6… 3.8… 3.5… 3.6. Once again, it i...
>Taste, elegance and intelligence tops the weekly cable programming chart. The parade starts with the young adults of Jersey Shore, moves across the Hudson River as Kourtney & Kim Take New York, touches the LA area wi...
“Say the name of the highest rated program of the week. Say it.” “Breaking Bad.” “You’re Goddamn right.” AMC’s extraordinary drama Breaking Bad tops the list of broadcast and ca...
The ratings for most network programs came back down to Earth in the official nationals (with the NFL preseason games filtered out of the early ratings, as we explained this morning). As expected, Big Brother was least impa...
Top broadcast and cable programs this week and last. Shark Week kicked off Sunday on Discovery with the mockumentary Megalodon: Monster Shark at 9:00 pm, which matched the 2.2 True Blood rating with Adults 18-49 on HBO at...
>A quiet week on cable with no program topping a 2 rating with Adults 18-49. With Walking Dead and Jersey Shore ending their seasons, the true granddaddy of lowest common denominator programs, WWE on USA, leads the pack t...
>Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 moves past the $700 million worldwide mark, with $421 million overseas to date. Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol edges past $550 million worldwide with $337 million ove...
>The Hunger Games continues its rise up the worldwide box office chart with overseas revenue to date now $157 million to go along with an estimated final domestic haul of $380 million. There is probably another $150-200 m...
>The most recent Promo Watch numbers are based on prime time broadcast network programming between March 20 and March 26, with about 8 hours of programming sampled for each network over that period. (Click “read mor...
>ESPN’s Monday Night Football was back with a vengeance this week — a 6.4 Adult 18-49 rating for the Pittsburgh Steelers at San Francisco 49ers, the highest-rated game since November 7 (6.9 rating for Chicago Bears ...