A low season exit for HAWAII 5-0. 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). Ratings analysis […]

NETWORK UPDATE:  The season finale of THE BLACKLIST gained 0.1 in final numbers.  However, the REIGN season finale, along with the night’s SVU rerun, each lost 0.1. CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  ESPN’s NBA PLAYOFFS doubleheader topped everything on network TV last night, even on an evening of high-profile season finales, with 2.64 for the Cleveland/Chicago game, and […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  Reruns at 0.32/0.28. CBS:  SECRET CELEBRITY RENOVATION gained 0.03 to 0.18, followed by reruns at 0.14/0.15. NBC:  Reruns at 0.22/0.20. FOX:  WWE SMACKDOWN ticked up to 0.49. CW:  KILLER CAMP ticked down to 0.03, and DYNASTY returned at 0.02. TELEMUNDO:  TOP CHEF VIP lost 0.03 to 0.30, and INFIEL was up […]

  JANE THE VIRGIN had a fair start. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment) Monday, 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 of people over the age of 2). Ratings analysis and […]

  It’s entirely possible that SEAN SAVES THE WORLD will never again hit the 1.4 rating it had last night (at least not unless NBC gives it The Voice as a lead-in again), so the network seized the opportunity of a less-horrible rating to announce a reduced back-order of 5 additional episodes.  As with the […]

Ratings in key demos for the Top 25 original cable telecasts (plus a few other lower-rated but noteworthy programs): There’s not much doubt about what tops the ratings on Sunday cable, and AMC’s THE WALKING DEAD did so again, although it was down 0.26 to a mere 7.27.  TALKING DEAD followed as usual, down 0.06 […]

  The networks have announced most of their midseason plans by now, issuing back orders or canceling the series introduced to great fanfare just 6 weeks ago and shuffling some time slots, and one thing has becoming increasingly clear–and just plain increasing:  more and more, the networks are content with ratings under a 2.0 in […]

  UPDATE:  The big change came early in the evening, as 60 MINUTES adjusted down 0.6 to 2.0, reflecting the deduction of the time zone viewers who were actually watching NCAA TOURNAMENT coverage.  That overrun rose 0.1 to 4.0, and all the rest of the night’s changes were also a matter of 0.1 up or […]