There’s always an audience for some stories, and while History Channel’s miniseries distillation of THE BIBLE from Mark Burnett and Roma Downey wasn’t quite at the network’s Hatfields & McCoys level of blockbuster success, it was–pardon the expression–damn close. Hatfields was watched by 13.9M people in its premiere, 4.8M of them 18-49, while Bible […]
NETWORK FINALS: FAMILY GUY gained 0.1 in final numbers, and the rerun LITTLE BIG SHOTS lost the same. Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart CABLE HIGHLIGHTS: AMC’s THE WALKING DEAD had its familiar Week 2 tumble, down two-tenths to 1.00, with the premiere of DISPATCHES […]
Even at HBO, someone has to watch your show. The network announced today that ENLIGHTENED won’t be returning for a third season. The Mike White/Laura Dern dramedy earned its share of praise, but its Season 2 finale was watched by 200,000 people–and that’s not 18-49s, that’s the total number of people in America who […]
NOTE: Broadcast and Cable Nationals will be posted later today when available. 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 […]
If there were any die-hards out there still nursing some flicker of hope that SMASH could survive its move to the basement of network television on Saturday nights, the ratings for its debut (which featured a fairly painful appearance by Liza Minnelli) snuffed them out. Not only did Smash fall to its all-time low […]
The other notable story of the day was contained in Netflix’s 1st Quarter 2013 financial report, which showed that the company grew by 3 million subscribers during that period (2M in the US and 1M more internationally). That gives the company 29.2M US streaming subscribers, plus 7.1M overseas. (DVD subscribers are shrinking, but that’s […]
Updated rankings for the week ending Sunday (with the prior week for comparison).
Currently TBD on the FOX schedule is US & THEM, an adaptation of the well-liked British comedy Gavin & Stacey. It stars the also well-liked Jason Ritter and Alexis Bledel as co-workers from different branches of the same company who finally meet and have to overcome the challenge of their wildly eccentric parents and […]