>A fairly typical summer week on cable. Jersey Shore and True Blood land on top of the chart, while ESPN’s Monday Night Football (preseason) had a good showing. Keeping Up with the Kardashians (featuring the t...
>Adventures of Tintin continues to roll around the world and is up to $159 million overseas, already what we expect it to do domestically when it opens here in December. Real Steel is now up to almost $150 million oversea...
>Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax joins the worldwide box office chart this week, already ranked #7 out of 45 films released the last three months, but that ranking is based on a current zero tally of overseas receipts. Based ...
THE WEEK. For the recently completed week ending Sunday (January 28-February 3, 2013), CBS of course dominated with the Super Bowl, achieving a preliminary 9.04 adult 18-49 rating for the week. This assumes about a 40.6 r...
Updated broadcast and cable ranking for the past week and the week before. Live programming occupied the top eight spots in the week’s program ranking: basketball and hockey playoffs, the final two episodes of The V...
> The past week (seven days ending Sunday) is up 4% versus last year’s comparable week. Year-to-date box office is now down 3.9% versus last year. Contagion opened in first place and is headed f...
>ESPN’s Monday Night Football was back with a vengeance this week — a 6.4 Adult 18-49 rating for the Pittsburgh Steelers at San Francisco 49ers, the highest-rated game since November 7 (6.9 rating for Chicago Bears ...
>Big time professional sports dominate the top of this week’s cable ratings chart. The NFL Draft turned in an excellent 3.3 rating with Adults 18-49 and nearly 7 million viewers 2+. The Draft finished in third...
The box office this weekend should be slightly off the pace for this weekend the last few years, cooling off a bit after a few solid weekends. Two new films open, and it appears 42 will lead the way with just under $20 millio...
“Say the name of the highest rated program of the week. Say it.” “Breaking Bad.” “You’re Goddamn right.” AMC’s extraordinary drama Breaking Bad tops the list of broadcast and ca...
>The past week (seven days ending Sunday) is up 5% versus last year’s comparable week. Year-to-date box office is now down 3.2% versus last year, the smallest year-to-year margin we’ve seen so f...
>Updated weekly cable rating chart below. More of the same, fine shows such as Jersey Shore and Pawn Stars and Storage Wars top the list. Most shows that are highly rated on cable are found in the 10 pm ...
The Past Week: Total Box Office Volume All films in wide release playing between September 10 and September 16 grossed a piss-poor $93 million, down 19% from the four-year average for the week and down 21% from the same week la...