Weekend #29 of 2015 is looking like $195 million for the top 12 films this weekend, somewhat above the norm for this weekend and way above last year’s very soft weekend (see comparisons below).   Ant-Man from Disney and Marvel should open with a $64.5 million three-day weekend. Early reviews at RottenTomatoes are decent: 75% positive overall so far. Ant-Man is on track […]

Here are the weekend sports ratings for Saturday and Sunday July 23-24, 2016.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 150K P2+).  Programs are grouped by sport and ranked within each sport by P2+ audience size.   For comparison, here is the same chart for the same weekend last year, July […]

Ratings for the Top 25 original cable telecasts Monday (plus a few other lower-rated but noteworthy programs):  

  The NFL PLAYOFFS dominated. 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 and comparisons follow […]

CBS and the other networks carrying March Madness had a very good round three Sunday (round two if you are a purist and don’t count the silly “play in” games as round one).  The CBS tripleheader games yesterday were up solid double-digits looking at the household ratings from the 56 metered markets (covering about 70% […]

> SMASHWatch tries to convince itself that ratings are all that matter.  UPDATE:  AND MAYBE NOT THEM EITHER–SEE BELOW. NBC:  After last night’s dreadful SMASH–the first to have no connection at all to observable reality–deposed showrunner Theresa Rebeck (who wrote the episode) can’t leave the building soon enough.  But the show held on to its […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  CELEBRITY JEOPARDY ticked down to 0.55, THE PARENT TEST fell a tenth to 0.35, and THE CHASE was down 0.06 to 0.25. CBS:  YOUNG SHELDON dropped 0.07 to 0.58, GHOSTS slipped 0.02 to 0.57, SO HELP ME TODD gained 0.02 to 0.39, and CSI: MIAMI ticked up to 0.32. NBC:  The […]

  The good news for ABC is that in the absence of football, it’s clear leader on Thursday; the bad is that its serialized shows are just a few weeks away from taking months-long breaks. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary key advertiser demographics (adult 18-34, 18-49 and […]