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UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Wednesday Cable Originals & Network Update: 1.20.2016

Posted January 21, 2016 by Mitch Metcalf

    NETWORK UPDATE:  MIKE & MOLLY gained 0.1 in final numbers. Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  ESPN’s Golden State vs. Chicago NBA game took the Wednesday cable crown with 0.84; the late Atlanta vs. Portland game was at 0.50.  Otherwise, it was A&E’s night, as the two-episode premieres of […]

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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Thursday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 6.3.2021

Posted June 4, 2021 by Mitch Metcalf

      Analysis to follow.       Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   Top 50 Original Cable Telecasts with Demographic Detail Top 150 Original Cable Telecasts To search for a show: type Ctrl-F and type your show title in the search box. Top 150 Original Cable Telecasts: Thursday June 3, 2021 P18-49 P2+ Rank […]

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UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Tuesday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 9.5.2017

Posted September 7, 2017 by Mitch Metcalf

        NETWORK FINALS:  AMERICA’S GOT TALENT and BACHELOR IN PARADISE gained 0.1 in final numbers, and HOLLYWOOD GAME NIGHT and the 9PM BLACK-ISH rerun as well as the reruns of THE FLASH and LEGENDS OF TOMORROW lost the same.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE […]

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THE SKED: Liberace Draws A Crowd

Posted May 28, 2013 by Mitch Salem

  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 […]

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Democratic National Convention Ratings: 2016 Night 1

Posted July 26, 2016 by Mitch Metcalf

The 2016 Democratic National Convention from Philadelphia opened with a very strong 25.8 million persons 2+ across the three broadcast networks and three main cable news channels in the 10 pm ET hour, when Michelle Obama, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders spoke.  This audience is more than 3 million ahead of last Monday’s first night […]

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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Thursday 5.5.2022 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED

Posted May 6, 2022 by Mitch Salem

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  The line-up aired new episodes for the first time in a month, with STATION 19 down 0.03 to 0.60, GREY’S ANATOMY up 0.02 to 0.65, and BIG SKY down 0.03 to 0.26. CBS:  After reruns at 0.36/0.26/0.27, HOW WE ROLL dropped 0.05 to 0.27, followed by a BULL rerun at 0.17. […]

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UPDATED with YOUNGER Details: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 25 Tuesday Cable Originals (& Network Update): 3.31.2015

Posted April 1, 2015 by Mitch Metcalf

  NETWORK UPDATE:  There was no mercy in the final numbers for WEIRD LONERS or THE DOVEKEEPERS.  However, THE VOICE, NCIS, THE FLASH and FOREVER all received 0.1 bumps. Ratings in key demos for the Top 25 original cable telecasts (plus a few other lower-rated but noteworthy programs): YOUNGER (TV Land) debuted with a 0.17 […]

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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 100 Tuesday Cable Originals (& Network Update): 9.15.2015

Posted September 16, 2015 by Mitch Metcalf

NETWORK UPDATE:  AMERICA’S GOT TALENT gained 0.1 in final numbers, and BEST TIME EVER lost 0.1.  The worse news for BEST TIME EVER, though, was its trajectory through the hour, starting at 2.2 in the 1st 15 minutes, and then falling steadily to 1.9-1.7-1.6.  That suggests a show that wasn’t living up to its title […]

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