Night two of the 15th season of “American Idol” helped Fox reign supreme on a busy Thursday night. “Idol” judge and music superstar Jennifer Lopez also reaped benefits starring in NBC’s “Shades of Blue”, her first turn on a scripted television series. The crime drama is NBC’s top Thursday drama debut in 18-49 in nearly […]
The top ratings performer on New Year’s Eve — as usual on every New Year’s Eve since the 1970’s — is “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve” in late night from New York’s Times Square as the clock struck midnight on the East Coast. In prime time, a new ratings winner emerged: ABC’s fellow Disney […]
CBS was Tuesday’s top network in total viewers (7.82 million) and all key demos even though its prime time lineup was all repeats — “NCIS”, “NCIS: New Orleans”, and “Limitless.” The top original program on the night was ABC’s 2-hour year-end retrospective “The Year: 2015” hosted by Robin Roberts. It won its 2-hour time slot […]
CBS — the lone broadcast network to air all original programming in prime time — was, by far, the top network on television among total viewers (9.28 million), adults 18-49 (2.0 rating/7 share) and adults 25-54 (3.0/9). Its four comedies each rose to their best numbers in several weeks: The highly-promoted Sheldon-Amy hookup episode of […]
NBC was Thursday’s most-watched network — a rarity in recent years — with its holiday specials “Michael Buble’s Christmas in Hollywood” (Women 18-34: 0.8/3; Men 18-34: 0.6/3; Women 18-49: 1.4/5; Men 18-49: 0.9/3) and the telemovie “Coat of Many Colors” (Women 18-34: 1.3/5; Men 18-34: 0.9/4; Women 18-49: 2.3/7; Men 18-49: 1.3/5) . NBC has […]
The simulcast editions of “Thursday Night Football” (Women 18-34: 2.9/12; Men 18-34: 5.2/23; Women 18-49: 3.6/12; Men 18-49: 6.9/24) on CBS and NFL Network in 2015 concluded on a winning and, as seen in the video below (sorry, Lions fans!), spectacular note. NBC delivered solid numbers for its musical “The Wiz Live!” (Women 18-34: 3.5/14; […]
The Chicago Bears earned one of the NFL’s most surprising wins of the season so far, defeating the Green Bay Packers 17-14 at Lambeau Field on the night the Packers retired the jersey number of their legendary quarterback Brett Favre. Not surprising, of course, was NBC’s overwhelming prime time victory on this Thanksgiving Thursday night. […]
CBS was Thursday’s most-watched network with 8.15 million total viewers. ABC won all key demos including adults 18-49 (2.4 rating/8 share), adults 18-34 (1.9/8) and adults 25-54 (2.9/8). With all three of its dramas airing fall finales on the night, ABC drew its biggest Thursday audience in four weeks and hit a 7-week high in […]
