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 an...
NBC upended last night with a Voice episode displaced by the Election Night coverage, powering NBC to a winning 3.2 adult 18-49 rating from 8-11 pm and pushing Chicago Fire to a season high. ABC appears to be back on trac...
THE SUBSTANCE (MUBI – Sept. 20): It’s quite a feat to take the body horror crown at a film festival that also features a contribution from David Cronenberg, but Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance uses its revo...
CLARICE: Thursday 10PM on CBS The Silence Of the Lambs wasn’t supposed to be Hannibal Lecter’s story. Despite Anthony Hopkins’ Best Actor Oscar for the role, the character was a supporting player in...
OPENINGS: In the US, NO TIME TO DIE (UA/MGM) opened at $56M, at the low end of expectations–and “expectations” are usually already set low so that the press will report that a film has “overperf...
CBS is looking like a 1.50 rating for the week of August 20-26, enough for a share of first place this week but down 10% from the same week last year. The NFL preseason games last year were a 2.0 on Friday (GB at IND) and 1.8...
HUMANS: Sunday 9PM on AMC – If Nothing Else Is On… The sentient robot story gets another workout in HUMANS, AMC’s first import series. It’s set in a barely futuristic England where “synt...
OPENINGS: THINK LIKE A MAN TOO (Screen Gems/Sony) had almost exactly the same start as the first Think, up $75K from that movie’s opening day at $12.2M. Being a sequel, though, it will likely fail to reach T...
BEAUTIFUL CREATURES: Watch It At Home – Many Witches, Little Magic BEAUTIFUL CREATURES can’t be dismissed as merely an overlong TV episode meant for the CW, but it never really comes together, either. Ric...
Almost every quality series, at one point or another, takes a wrong turn (remember the Friday Night Lights murder storyline?); the mark of one with staying power is whether it can bounce back. THE FOSTERS was in danger...
A dismal start for the new ABC line-up. 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 rati...
DEFIANCE: Monday 9PM on Syfy Previously… on DEFIANCE: Now that the usual post-apocalyptic interstellar warfare is over, a variety of alien races live alongside the remaining humans on Earth. In the town that ...
BROADCAST FINALS ABC: BACHELOR IN PARADISE rose 0.08 to 0.63, but THE ROOKIE: FEDS was down 0.05 to 0.24. CBS: Reruns at 0.41/0.35/0.29. NBC: THE VOICE gained 0.02 to 0.62, LA BREA was up 0.03 to 0.35, and NEW AMST...
NETWORK UPDATE: Both THE BLACKLIST and SCANDAL gained 0.1 in final Thursday numbers, as did GREY’S ANATOMY and both episodes (the original and the rerun) of THE BIG BANG THEORY. (There was no change for ALLEGIA...