It’s been a busy couple of days for premieres and returns on basic cable (pay cable’s big night is this upcoming Sunday, when both HBO and Showtime begin their winter schedules).  The winner:  PRETTY LITTLE LIARS on ABCFamily, with a strong 1.4 rating in 18-49s that was beaten for the night only by an […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  SHARK TANK gained 0.1 in final numbers, and DATELINE lost the same.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  A&E’s LIVE PD led Friday cable at 0.58 (up 0.28 from last week’s SPECIAL EDITION episode), with the lead-in hour up 0.04 to […]

  SYFY:  The multiplatform DEFIANCE is the biggest project Syfy has tried to launch in quite a while, and its debut was fair if not overwhelming with a 1.0 in the 18-49 demo (only about 45% of the 2.7M total viewers were under 50, which may reflect the old-west flavor of the drama), plus another […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  BIG BROTHER gained 0.1 in final numbers.  (Footnote:  after EXTANT sets its series low 0.6 this morning, CBS announced that beginning next week, it will move to 9PM with BIG BROTHER as its lead-in, rather than following a CRIMINAL MINDS rerun.)  MASTERCHEF also received an 0.1 bump, as did the rerun of SUPERNATURAL. CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:   A&E’s […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  The rerun LAST MAN STANDING lost 0.1 in final numbers.          Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Sunday scripted cable was led by ESPN’s documentary BE WATER at 0.33 (plus 0.10 on ESPN2).  TNT’s SNOWPIERCER, shed 0.06 to 0,28.  On HBO, LAST WEEK […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  SHARK TANK dropped 0.06 to 0.45, and 20/20 was down 0.02 to 0.29. CBS:  Returning from a rerun week, SWAT rose 0.09 to 0.52, FIRE COUNTRY edged up 0.02 to 0.44, and BLUE BLOODS was up 0.07 to 0.42. NBC:  LOPEZ VS LOPEZ gained 0.04 to 0.30, and YOUNG ROCK was […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  As expected, football adjustments pushed AMERICAN NINJA WARRIOR, the NBC FALL PREVIEW special and the 9:30PM WHOSE LINE IT IS ANYWAY rerun down 0.1.           Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Inevitably, ESPN’s MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL led Monday cable at 4.12, compared […]

  BROADCAST FINALS (except where otherwise noted, comparisons are to 2 weeks ago) ABC:  SHARK TANK dropped 0.04 to 0.41, and 20/20 was up 0.05  to 0.34. CBS:  SWAT fell 0.13 to 0.39, FIRE COUNTRY lost 0.05 to 0.39, and BLUE BLOODS was down 0.08 to 0.34. NBC:  LOPEZ VS LOPEZ gained 0.03 to 0.33, […]