CBS won the week of Dec. 11 in viewers which included its most-watched Sunday of this fall with an average of 12.31 million viewers on Dec. 17, thanks to a 38-minute NFL runover (New England Patriots vs. Pittsburgh Steelers; 29.72 million). “60 Minutes” was the week’s #1 news program and the top non-sport program. “The […]
What follows are the Live + Same Day results on the broadcast networks for the week of Dec. 4 (with change versus the comparable year-ago period in parentheses): –Total Viewers: NBC: 8.09 million (-24), CBS: 6.83 (-12), Fox: 4.58 (+ 9), ABC: 4.05 (-10), Univision: 1.74, CW: 1.30 (-12), Telemundo: 1.05, UniMas: 756,000 –Adults 18-49: […]
The Carol Burnett 50th Anniversary Special on CBS on Dec. 3 posted the largest audience for an entertainment/non-sports special since the Academy Awards on Feb. 26. What follows are the Live + Same Day results on the broadcast networks for the week of Nov. 27 (with change versus the comparable year-ago period in parentheses): –Total […]
What follows are the Live + Same Day results on the five broadcast networks for the week of Nov. 20 (with change versus the comparable year-ago period in parentheses): –Total Viewers: NBC: 8.61 million (- 7), CBS: 6.96 (-12), ABC: 5.37 (- 8), Fox: 2.96 (+ 2), Univision: 1.43, CW: 1.31 (- 2), Telemundo: 1.19, […]
The American Music Awards on ABC grew by double digits year to year in Total Viewers (+11 percent) and Teens 12-17 (+20 percent), while holding even with Adults 18-49. The 2017 AMAs drew ABC’s biggest entertainment audience in the Sunday 8-11pm time slot since February and highest young adult number since May – since The […]
A revival of “Roswell,” which originally aired on The WB from 1999 to 2002, is in the works on The CW. The proposed one-hour drama series will follow the daughter of undocumented immigrants who reluctantly returns to her tourist-trap hometown of Roswell, New Mexico. There she discovers the real truth about her teenage crush who […]
Executive producer Julie Plec announced on Twitter that “The Vampire Diaries” spinoff “The Originals” will end with season five on The CW. The news comes before the scheduled panel of “The Originals” at Comic-Con in San Diego this week. “Many shows are not lucky enough to have a hand in deciding when the end has […]
Get inside the 2017 upfronts with Marc Berman, editor in chief of Programming Insider. Marc and PromaxBDA’s Paige Albiniak go deep on nonlinear viewership, programming trends, superheroes and revivals on the Daily Brief Podcast. From May 15-19 and June 6, 2017, Programming Insider‘s Douglas Pucci was a guest on “The Morning Fix” with JJ and […]
The CW will add four new series (all dramas; two this fall and two in midseason) in 2017-18, with a schedule impacting four of the five night line-up. Only Tuesday will remain as is with returning “The Flash” and “D.C.’s Legends of Tomorrow”). The fall starters are military drama “Valor” and a revival of 1980s […]
