The same number of people–2.4 million–watched Sunday’s HBO premiere of BEHIND THE CANDELABRA, its Liberace biography directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring Michael Douglas and Matt Damon, as watched the series finale of Smash on NBC, a network with triple the available audience.  (And another 1 million people tuned for the rebroadcast of Candelabra […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  SHARK TANK inched up 0.02 to 0.54, and 20/20 was down 0.03 to 0.33 CBS:  SWAT gained 0.07 to 0.50, MAGNUM PI was steady at 0.40, and BLUE BLOODS ticked down to 0.41. NBC:  The premiere of HOME SWEET HOME was at 0.21, about the same as the scripted reruns that […]

  FRIDAY STARZ:  The pay-TV network had plenty of announcements at its TCA press tour session, including a renewal for its pirate series Black Sails before the show has even aired, but there wasn’t a word of comfort for MAGIC CITY, which is just 2 weeks from its Season 2 conclusion.  The show has been […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  THE BACHELORETTE climbed 0.11 to 0.69, but QUEENS was down 0.02 to 0.28. CBS:  FBI lost 0.05 to 0.67, FBI: INTERNATIONAL slipped 0.03 to 0.48, and FBI: MOST WANTED was up 0.09 to 0.53. NBC:  THE VOICE gained 0.04 to 0.82, LA BREA edged up 0.02 to 0.60, and NEW AMSTERDAM […]

  Preliminary numbers from last night’s season finale have HOMELAND setting a new series record with 2.4M total viewers for its initial airing (an additional 500K tuned in for the re-broadcast later in the evening).  Whatever the qualms have been over this season’s creative direction, its viewership has been very solid. MASTERS OF SEX has […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  SHARK TANK slipped 0.02 to 0.48, and 20/20 was down 0.04 to 0.30. CBS:  A pair of GREATEST #ATHOME VIDEOS specials was at 0.20/0.18.  A BLUE BLOODS rerun ended the night at 0.24. NBC:  A run of the movie SING (tying in with the sequel’s release this week) was at 0.39, […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  JUDGE STEVE HARVEY dipped 0.04 to 0.64.  ABBOTT ELEMENTARY lost 0.03 to 0.58, BLACK-ISH ticked down to 0.40, and QUEENS was up 0.04 to 0.30. CBS:  A night of reruns at 0.41/0.37/0.37. NBC:  AMERICAN AUTO fell 0.12 to 0.38, GRAND CREW dropped 0.05 to 0.33, THIS IS US shrank by 0.15 […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  There was no good news for UTOPIA in final numbers, although 2 other 8PM shows (48 HOURS and MASTERS OF ILLUSION) went up 0.1 each.  DATELINE lost 0.1. FRIDAY CABLE:  Technical issues kept it off the Top 25 chart below, but Syfy’s premiere of Z NATION was actually the #2 cable original of […]