BROADCAST FINALS: ABC:  After a rerun AMERICA’S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS at 0.51, CELEBRITY FAMILY FEUD was steady at 0.50, THE CHASE dipped 0.03 to 0.34, and TO TELL THE TRUTH was down 0.04 to 0.26. CBS:  With a huge lead-in from the late national NFL game, the EMMY AWARDS had a robust rise to […]

  Remember all those people who said they’d never watch GAME OF THRONES or for that matter HBO again after the Red Wedding?  Well, they didn’t go anywhere.  Last night’s Season 3 finale had a viewership of 5.4M people, even higher than the 5.2M who tuned in for the Stark/Frey nuptials.  It was also a […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  STATION 19 gained 0.06 to 0.62, GREY’S ANATOMY was up 0.02 to 0.63, and BIG SKY ticked up to 0.35. CBS:  YOUNG SHELDON slipped 0.02 to 0.63, UNITED STATES OF AL dropped 0.06 to 0.44, GHOSTS (which just received its back order) fell 0.08 to 0.53, and B POSITIVE was down […]

  AMC executives may have felt like they’d been doing some meth themselves this morning–in a good way.  Five and a half seasons into its run, BREAKING BAD returned for its final 8 episodes with a vengeance, exploding to a total viewership of 5.9M.  That’s not just the highest rating by far in the show’s […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  The season finale of DANCING WITH THE STARS was at 0.88, up 0.21 from last week but down from 1.0 last year.  THE GOOD DOCTOR rose 0.11 to 0.49. CBS:  The latest run of RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER was at 0.58, down from last year’s 1.1 (on a Tuesday).  Reruns followed […]

  Netflix is notoriously about as open with its viewership numbers as Frank Underwood is with his political agendas.  But Variety has unearthed a metric that suggests HOUSE OF CARDS has returned with its second batch of episodes to a massive leap in subscriber interest.  On one (unnamed) internet service, a full 15% of Netflix […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  Only one network featured original programming on the night before Christmas Eve.  On ABC, the reruns were at 0.46/0.30/0.23. CBS:  A YOUNG SHELDON rerun at 0.31 was followed by a marathon of GHOSTS reruns at 0.26/0.22/0.20/0.20/0.20. NBC:  Reruns at 0.23/0.16/0.15/0.14/0.15. FOX:  The night’s one original show was a special FANTASY ISLAND […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  Returning from a rerun week, AMERICA’S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS gained 0.02 to 0.51, CELEBRITY WHEEL OF FORTUNE fell 0.19 to 0.43, SUPERMARKET SWEEP was also down 0.19 to 0.36, and THE ROOKIE lost 0.08 to 0.32. CBS:  The AFC Divisional NFL PLAYOFFS game was gigantic at 11.37, a strong enough lead-in […]