> Sweeps! FOX:  AMERICAN IDOL was steady with last Thursday at 5.4, which meant it was again down around 30% from last year and again saw its first half-hour lose to CBS’s Big Bang Theory.  THE FINDER, airing against original episodes on every network this week, lost most of last week’s gains and fell to […]

  Football aside, network TV’s biggest hit is THE MASKED SINGER. 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 […]

> FOX’s decision to move TOUCH to Thursdays and BONES to Mondays left THE FINDER as the odd show out, and today that other shoe fell:  Finder will run its remaining episodes (essentially burning them off) on Fridays at 8PM, starting April 6.  This pushes the unscripted HOTEL HELL to summer. This may not be […]

>   BENT finds the welcome mat to be more of a trapdoor. NBC:  Even facing a repeat Modern Family on ABC, BENT had a catastrophic 1.0 premiere (down to 0.9 in its 2d half-hour).  See our Pilot + 1 Review.  The network can’t be too surprised by that, since the show was being dumped […]

The Memorial Day holiday will cause delays for daily nationals ratings (cable and broadcast finals) for a few days.  This is how the ratings should roll out this week.  We will update this schedule if anything changes.  (All times Pacific.) Friday May 27 nationals rescheduled to Tuesday May 31 at 1 pm (normally Monday afternoon) Saturday May 28 nationals rescheduled to Wednesday June 1 at 6 am (normally […]

>Don't trust the premiere rating. ABC: If DON'T TRUST THE B– IN APT 23 can continue to retain 70% of its MODERN FAMILY lead-in, it'll be a comfortable win. Now that its premiere marketing blitz is over, we'll find out in the next week or 2 whether it can. FAMILY, SUBURGATORY and THE MIDDLE all […]

FOX took control of Monday night with a double dose of Gordon Ramsay.  Hell’s Kitchen at 8 (2.4 rating) and MasterChef at 9 (2.3) combined for a 2.4 preliminary rating from 8-10 pm with Adults 18-49.  Last year FOX averaged a 1.5 on the same night with an original MasterChef at 8 (1.8) and repeat House at 9 (1.2). NBC finished second on the […]

Wherever Justin Bieber’s fans are, they’re not watching network television. NBC:  The first part of a 2-night special that’s oh-so-coincidentally airing the same week as its star’s new release, JUSTIN BIEBER:  ALL AROUND THE WORLD could only get to a 0.9 rating in 18-49s.  It didn’t even skew as young as you might think:  under […]