It was a slooooooooow Sunday on network TV. CBS:  BIG BROTHER claimed the highest number of the night on any network, but its 1.8 was down a discouraging 0.7 from last week.  UNFORGETTABLE hit a new low 1.0, down 0.1. NBC:  On its last Sunday before the return of regular-season football, the network could […]

  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 […]

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). Note: The fast affiliate-based ratings below measure what aired on […]

  The other networks are glad to see the last of the World Series. FOX:  Per Mitch Metcalf:  with a 5.4 preliminary number, WORLD SERIES GAME 6 might end up around a 6.0 adult 18-49 rating in the official nationals, just below the low-end of the three recent Game 6 ratings (6.2 in 2008 for Philadelphia-Tampa Bay, 6.5 […]

  Last night, the hills were, without a doubt, alive. NBC:  What’s on the drawing board this morning at NBC?  Hello, Dolly with Miley Cyrus?  Kanye West in Fiddler On the Roof?  Katy Perry as Mame?  Sweeney Todd with Eminem and Taylor Swift as the serial-killing cannibals?  (Actually, that one…)  In what has to be […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  CELEBRITY JEOPARDY ticked up to 0.56, and THE PARENT TEST was down 0.03 to 0.32.  A JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE 20TH ANNIVERSARY special was at 0.25. CBS:  Reruns at 0.40/0.32/0.24/0.24. NBC:  The LAW & ORDER franchise included the mothership up 0.04 to 0.52, SVU up 0.05 to 0.67, and ORGANIZED CRIME up […]

  Another newcomer bites the dust. FOX:  ENLISTED showed no signs of life in is premiere with 0.7, slightly behind the 0.8 for its lead-in RAISING HOPE, and the question will be whether FOX is content to leave that hour at a sub-1 level.  BONES was at 1.5, down 0.2 from its last new episode […]

  BROADCAST FINALS:  ABC’s NBA game was at 0.64.  The broadcast presentation of the NAACP IMAGE AWARDS on CBS was at 0.16.  NBC’s SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE returned at 0.71.  FOX’s COLLEGE BASKETBALL was at 0.32.  On CW, MASTERS OF ILLUSION ticked up to 0.05, and WORLD’S FUNNIEST ANIMALS ticked down to 0.03.   Broadcast Official […]