Another week of prime time ratings, and only FOX can claim a full week average over a 2 rating with adults 18-49 for the week ending last night. ABC has a particularly steep decline versus the same week last year, which included The Oscars. Weekly Rating Feb 25-Mar 3 18-49 Rating Vs Last Year FOX 2.19 […]
NOTE: NBC has the early lead in Super Tuesday election coverage, but ABC, CBS and NBC numbers below are all subject to revision because of the unusual broadcast pattern (live to all time zones). 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 […]
BATES MOTEL had a very solid start on A&E last night, with a total viewership in its initial airing of 3 million, a number that rose healthily to 4.6 million with the night’s rerun included. It also skewed fairly young for a show that takes its inspiration from a 52-year old movie, with more […]
The newly-grown linear audience made THE MASKED SINGER even bigger. 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 […]
Roger Ebert, after enduring cancer with extraordinary fortitude for over a decade, passed away today. Ebert was one of the smartest, hardest-working and most passionate film critics of his generation, and almost certainly the most famous. Although he was devoted to criticism expressed in writing–both in newspapers (and books) and, later in his career, […]
This is what it came to for SMASH and VEGAS, both starry, expensive shows that once had Emmy lights glittering in their eyes: fighting it out for 3rd place at 8PM on a Saturday night. Behind the 1.5 for a UFC match on FOX, behind even the 0.7 for ABC’s misbegotten game show BET ON […]
We’re continuing our look through FOX’s fall trailers with SLEEPY HOLLOW, which will hold the Monday 9PM slot until The Following takes it back at midseason. It comes from genre specialists Alex Kurtzman and Robert Orci, and here’s the promo: Sleepy Hollow has a bit of a second-hand feel, as though tropes from a […]
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). ###