For broadcasters: The end of the world as you know it? Walking Dead not only tops the cable ratings chart, but also beat everything else on TV — by far. The highest-rated program in prime time last week on broadcast television with adults 18-49 was the the second game of the NCAA double-header Sunday that spilled into […]
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). PREVIOUS SATURDAY NETWORK SCORECARDS (FAST NATIONALS) PREVIOUS SATURDAY CABLE & […]
NETWORK FINALS: THE BACHELORETTE gained 0.1 in final numbers, but MISTRESSES lost the same (the former didn’t end until 10:01PM, which often causes a one-tenth shift in finals when the 10PM show is lower-rated). In addition, SPARTAN lost 0.1. Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart […]
Has there ever been a #1 network as screwed up as this year’s edition of NBC? Full Season To Date (through May 3) 18-49 Rating Average: 2.04 (#1), Down 13.7% From Last Season Season Grade: D+ What Happened: Sunday: NBC is at the top of the broadcast networks for one and a half reasons. […]
ABC turned in a 1.8 rating with adults 18-49 last night, down from the 2.0 last week but still #1 for the night. Last Man Standing and Malibu Country each posted a 1.6 rating in their second week (down four-tenths of a rating point for Last Man and down a hefty seven tenths for Malibu). The comedies fell to second place […]
Broadcast television quickly returned to normal the week ending Sunday night, the first full week after the Summer Olympics. FOX won the quiet week of August 13-19 with a preliminary 1.65 Adult 18-49 rating. Once again, the Gordon Ramsay reality shows paced FOX’s win, but the network was down 9% from the same week last […]
> If you hear bells pealing and catch sight of Human Beings dancing (well, not so much dancing as meta-dancing that references obscure pop culture artifacts from 20 years ago), it’s because NBC has finally freed COMMUNITY, its low-rated, selectively-beloved, utterly bizarre captive sitcom. As of March 15, Community will be back in its 8PM […]
>Steven Spielberg week on Broadway continues: after War Horse, the director’s next film, we have CATCH ME IF YOU CAN, based on his 2002 comedy-drama (that film was written by Jeff Nathanson). Spielberg’s movie may have been the sleekest entertainment of his career, a near-perfect piece of craft that boasted two great star performances from […]