NETWORK FINALS:  BLACK-ISH gained 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  USA’s WWE SMACKDOWN, soon to move to FOX, led Tuesday cable, up 0.04 to 0.67, followed by a “sneak peek” of the TREADSTONE pilot at 0.26.  Bravo’s REAL HOUSEWIVES OF […]

    A slow Memorial Day evening for the networks. NBC:  AMERICA’S GOT TALENT was the night’s big show with a 2.7, and AMERICAN NINJA WARRIOR won the rest of the night with 2.0, but both were down 0.4 from the previous week.  In the battle of reruns at 10PM, GRIMM was in 2d place […]

  Did moving The Good Wife and Revenge away from one another for a night help both shows? CBS:  The afternoon NFL overrun pushed the night’s schedule by an entire hour in most of the country, kicking The Mentalist out of primetime.  The effect was interesting, not because of the giant push football gave 60 […]

> SMASHWatch likes it when Castle and Hawaii 5-0 take the night off. NBC:  Last night’s episode of SMASH, written by (soon to be ex-) showrunner Theresa Rebeck, featured a Bollywood fantasy number, a plot to undermine Our Precious Karen that seemed to have been cribbed from a 90210 episode, and a desperate, failed attempt […]

It was quite the 10PM hour on broadcast TV last night, as both NBC and ABC aired episodes largely revolving around their shows’ cancer patients. NBC:  PARENTHOOD scored a convincing win in the hour, matching its season high 2.0 with about the most wrenching “holiday” episode you’ll ever see on network TV. That beat CBS […]

  A solid start for BLACK LIGHTNING. 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 of people over the age of 2). Ratings analysis and comparisons follow […]

  As people began to find other ways to spend their holiday week, it was a lousy night for network television. NBC:  AMERICA’S GOT TALENT was the highest-rated show of the night with a 2.3 and gave NBC the win, but it was down 0.3 from last week.  OFF THEIR ROCKERS hit a new low […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  After reruns at 0.29/0.27/0.27/0.23, A MILLION LITTLE THINGS ticked up to 0.21. CBS:  SURVIVOR gained 0.04 to 0.76.  After a rerun at 0.22, TRUE LIES was down 0.02 to 0.21. NBC:  The CHICAGO franchise had MED up 0.05 to 0.53, FIRE up 0.05 to 0.58, and PD up 0.11 to 0.56. […]