The 40th weekend of the year is looking like a good $107 million for the top 12 films, way down from this weekend last year (boosted by Taken 2) but up 9% from the multi-year average for this weekend. Opening at over 3,450 theaters Friday (way above the 2,886 average theater count for opening weekends the […]

  IRONSIDE:  Wednesday 10PM on NBC – Change the Channel “There are rules, dammit, and they need to be followed!”  That actual line is spoken, with a completely straight face, about four minutes into the pilot for NBC’s reboot of IRONSIDE, and it may rightly make your heart sink.  We know we’re in 2013, because […]

  So much for superpowers. ABC:  AGENTS OF SHIELD took one of the ugliest Week 2 dives in recent memory, plummeting a horrific 1.6 from last week’s premiere to a very mortal 3.1 rating.  That pulled the rug out from under the rest of the network’s night, as THE GOLDBERGS dropped 0.9 to 2.2, TROPHY […]

  And like that, CBS’s Monday is in trouble. CBS:  The final season of HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER is holding up well enough, down 0.6 from last week’s season debut to 3.1.  After that, it gets ugly.  WE ARE MEN had a lousy 2.0 debut, which is down 0.4 from the start for last […]

  For one last glorious night, Walter White truly was The One Who Knocks. AMC:  Ratings for the finale of BREAKING BAD smashed through even the huge expectations.  The show was watched by 10.3M people in its 9PM airing.  That was almost 40% higher than last week–which was itself a series record.  It was the […]

  Read All Our Fall Pilot Reports here and Midseason Pilot Reports here. WE ARE MEN:  Monday 8:30PM on CBS – Change the Channel It hasn’t been a great fall for new sitcoms.  On CBS, WE ARE MEN (which could have better been called We Are Mediocrities) joins Mom, The Crazy Ones, and The Millers, […]

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday September 28 and Sunday September 29, 2013. (The 56 markets out of 210 total cover about 70% of the US television population.)   College Football Week 5 Top Games on Saturday 4.9 rating CBS 3:30 pm #6 LSU at #9 Georgia 4.1 […]

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