> If you liked the ratings projections post for Fridays, you’ll love this post for SATURDAYS.   Six hours of repeats on the broadcast networks, a withering reality franchise in Cops, and one original scripted show.  ABC has the only game in town, the primetime college football game of the week.  Click “read more” to see the […]

  OCEAN’S EIGHT (Village Roadshow/Warners) wasn’t expected to be a blockbuster, and its reported production budget of $70M was in keeping with that, although the A-level Warners marketing campaign will raise the price.  It’s performing at the high end of expectations with a $15.9M Friday (including $4M from Thursday night) according to preliminary numbers at […]

  Our journey through the fall primetime schedule–and by “our,” I mean former head of NBC Scheduling Mitch Metcalf, former head of NBC Current Programming Ted Frank and myself–takes us to what may be the most competitive night of the new season:  Wednesdays.  (You can find our predictions here for Monday and Tuesday.)   Our […]

      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: Wednesday June 23, 2021 P18-49 P2+ Rank […]

> After 3 years of the morass that was Laurence Fishburne’s tenure, the original CSI:  CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION, now with a new Wednesday 10PM timeslot, may have recaptured some of its old mojo.  The potential hero of the tale is Ted Danson, newly installed as D.B. Russell, head of the squad after Fishburne’s execution of […]

  Viewers had plenty to choose from in last night’s line-ups–and essentially chose none of it. NBC:  THE VOICE was the highest rated show of the night and it gave NBC the win, but its 3.0 rating marked its 7th consecutive Tuesday drop (it was scoring a 4.6 as recently as April 16) and tied […]

      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: Saturday July 24, 2021 P18-49 P2+ Rank […]

> The season’s first week came to an end with more of a whimper than a bang. ABC:  All things considered, PAN AM got off to a solid start (insert “good take-off,” “little turbulence” or similar pun of choice).  Its 3.1, while not enormously impressive, held just about all of what turned out to be […]