AFTERNOON UPDATE:  As expected, CBS bore the brunt of the final ratings corrections once the NFL game was removed.  THE BIG BANG THEORY dropped 0.2 to 5.3 (still up 0.3 from last week), THE MILLERS fell 0.3 to 2.6 (still up 0.2), THE CRAZY ONES and 2 1/2 MEN both lost 0.2 to 1.9s […]

  Another newcomer bites the dust. FOX:  ENLISTED showed no signs of life in is premiere with 0.7, slightly behind the 0.8 for its lead-in RAISING HOPE, and the question will be whether FOX is content to leave that hour at a sub-1 level.  BONES was at 1.5, down 0.2 from its last new episode […]

  NBC was desperate to get Michael J. Fox back on its air, so much so that it ordered 22 episodes of his series before a pilot had even been produced.  But viewers had much less interest in Fox’s return, especially in what turned out to be such a pedestrian vehicle, and the show’s only […]

NOTE: Ratings below for all networks inflated by local pre-emptions for eight NFL Preseason games in 16 television markets. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary 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 […]

  NBC:  See Mitch Metcalf’s Skedball post for detailed analysis and charts of WINTER OLYMPICS ratings.  Last night’s 3.5 (which may adjust up to 3.6 if the network ran the 8PM half-hour without commercials) will in any case mark a historic low for Winter Olympics primetime network coverage, down almost a point from Turin’s parallel […]

  UPDATE:  All the adjustments were upward, but they were also only by 0.1, giving a little extra to BELIEVE, RESURRECTION, COSMOS, ONCE UPON A TIME, AMERICAN DAD and AMERICA’S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS.  SUNDAY CABLE:  A particularly wrenching hour of THE WALKING DEAD (AMC) continued to be the biggest thing on all of television, swamping […]

  AFTERNOON UPDATE:  SVU’s 0.1 upward adjustment meant that it, too, beat AMERICAN IDOL on Wednesday.  MIXOLOGY also came up 0.1, as did each of the reruns that preceded it on ABC. WEDNESDAY CABLE:  A very slow night on cable, as the NBA game on ESPN led with 1.0, and AMERICAN PICKERS (0.9) was behind […]

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday May 3 and Sunday May 4, 2014. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population.   Triple Crown: Kentucky Derby Saturday 4.0 rating NBC 4:30-5:00 pm (-2% from 4.1 last year; […]