For the third consecutive week, CBS was Sunday night’s most-watched network. On this evening, they averaged 9 million viewers. Another Sunday fueled by “The Walking Dead” and “Talking Dead” brought AMC another prime time victory among adults 18-49. From 7-11 p.m., AMC averaged a 2.7 rating within the demo. ABC’s 2-hour special “The Wonderful World […]
The return of its full slate of regular programming — “60 Minutes”, “Madam Secretary”, “The Good Wife” and “CSI: Cyber” — on the night led CBS to a total-viewer victory on Sunday with an average of 8.69 million total viewers. Leading television among adults 18-49 with an average of a 3.3 rating in prime time […]
Television’s biggest day of the year was headlined by “Super Bowl 50” televised on CBS. The Denver Broncos’ 24-10 victory over the Carolina Panthers didn’t set the all-time average viewership record which was set with last year’s Super Bowl XLIX (114.442 million) — this year’s game off 2 percent in total viewers and off 4 […]
Fox won its second consecutive Sunday night overall with the network’s first musical telecast “Grease Live.” In total viewers, the 3-hour Fox event starring Julianne Hough, Aaron Tveit, Vanessa Hudgens and Carly Rae Jepsen outdrew NBC’s two most recent musicals, “The Wiz Live” from Dec. 2015 and “Peter Pan Live” from Dec. 2014. Although it […]
It was all about Fox on Sunday evening with the NFC Championship Game which saw the top-seeded Carolina Panthers overwhelm the visiting Arizona Cardinals by a score of 49-15 at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte. Despite the lopsided score, the NFC Championship Game posted a +7 percent household ratings increase over the 22.5/35 for […]
Aided by the Pittsburgh Steelers-Denver Broncos playoff game — the second most-watched Sunday AFC Divisional Playoff game ever on record (dating back to 1987-88), “60 Minutes” on CBS delivered the largest non-sports audience for a single broadcast this television season, according to Nielsen live plus same day ratings for Sunday, Jan. 17. It was the […]
Thanks to the 71-minute overrun of the NFL’s NFC Wild Card playoff into prime time, Fox snapped NBC’s 9-week Sunday winning streak among households and total viewers. Fox’s broadcast of the Green Bay Packers versus the Washington football team, which the visiting Packers won 35-18, posted a 21.8/37 household rating/share, with 38.8 million viewers, and […]
Showtime as issued pick-ups to dramas “Homeland” and “The Affair,” with an unconfirmed number of new episodes each for next season. This will take “Homeland,” which debuted on Oct. 2, 2011, into season six. Sixty episodes in total have been produced to-date. And “The Affair,” which launched on Oct. 12, 2014, will head into season […]
