BROADCAST HIGHLIGHTS: ABC:  The line-up declined:  HOLEY MOLEY by 0.04 to 0.40, WHEN NATURE CALLS by 0.04 to 0.20, and THE HUSTLER by a tick to 0.25.  CBS:  BIG BROTHER rose 0.09 to 1.01.  Reruns followed at 0.20-0.36. NBC:  BROOKLYN NINE-NINE was at 0.40/0.28 compared to last week’s premiere 0.39/0.32.  MAKING […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  The 9PM hour of 48 HOURS lost 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Sports led Saturday cable, with NBC Sports Net’s Game 3 of the STANLEY CUP FINALS at 0.91, and TNT’s UEFA match at 0.65 (Univision’s […]

Broadcast news and late night series ratings available below for this week and the same week last year. You can also search for other available weeks with the link at the bottom of this post. Week 11: March 8-14, 2021 Broadcast News: Current Week Broadcast News: Same Week Last Year (as the pandemic shutdown began […]

  WILL & GRACE returned from a nearly 2-month break. 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 and adults 50+ shares) and total viewership (thousands of people over the age of 2). […]

> FOX, reacting quickly to the decline of NEW GIRL, has just announced that it’s yanking the horribly rated I HATE MY TEENAGE DAUGHTER from the final 2 weeks of its 4-sitcom Tuesday.  Last night, Teenage Daughter could only crawl to a 1.2, and that helped reduce New Girl to a series-low 2.6.   The network’s […]

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 and adults 50+ shares) and total viewership (thousands of people over the age of 2). Note: The fast affiliate-based ratings below measure what aired on […]

The networks oh-so-slowly began to climb out of their holiday cave. NBC:  What did PARENTHOOD ever do to justify its treatment by NBC?  The show has been subject to every kind of indignity throughout its run, and last night the network, in a rush to clear the decks of new episodes (to make way for […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  Nielsen gives and takes away:  DANCING WITH THE STARS gained 0.1 in final numbers, but QUANTICO lost the same.  TAKEN also dropped 0.1.           Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  No surprises on the Monday cable chart.  VH1 retained the lead, […]