US Television Ratings

Sunday’s Academy Awards (without a host for the first time since 1989) actually rated higher than last year’s ceremony. This year’s Oscars telecast had a preliminary 18-49 rating of 6.6, up from 6.4 for 2018. It was also watched by 25.5 million viewers.
EDIT: final figures showed the Oscars had a demo rating of 7.7 with 29.6 million total viewers. However this year’s ratings are still the second-lowest ever recorded for the Oscars.

HBO documentary Leaving Neverland did OK in the US earlier this week.

It dropped to 927,000 for part 2.

Ratings for The Big Bang Theory final. CBC’s 18-49 and total people ratings were higher than the combined rating for the other major networks.

https://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/daily-ratings/tv-ratings-thursday-may-16-2019/

CBS experienced an unsurprising ratings surge Thursday night, as “The Big Bang Theory” series finale scored a dominant win over the other broadcasts.

With its one-hour finale episode, “The Big Bang Theory” scored a 3.1 average rating among adults 18-49 with 17.99 million viewers – its largest audience since Sept. 2015. It was also the show’s highest-rated episode since Jan. 2018. The season 2 finale of “Young Sheldon” followed it with a 2.2 and 13.7 million viewers – giving the “Big Bang” spin-off its highest-rated episode since its season 1 finale last year.

Interesting results from the Late Show:


First time Late Show has won both younger demos and total viewers since 1994-95.
Personally, Colbert’s constant bashing of Trump is a bit repetive and boring. Personally would prefer Fallon or Conan.

Love Island US off to a poor start.

US women’s team’s win at the FIFA Women’s World Cup attracted 14.3 million viewers on Sunday (despite the morning kickoff due to time difference), compared to 11.4 million for the 2018 Men’s World Cup final. An additional 1.6 million viewers watched the final in Spanish on Telemundo, while 17.8 million people viewed the game on social media, an increase of 18% on Twitter and YouTube, compared to the men’s final in 2018.

Apparently Nine have the rights to air the US series, but have no plans to show it as the UK and Australian versions are enough? It may land on 9Now at some point.

Surely, there’s some timeslot it could fill rather than have so many repeats in the schedule.

BH90210 got off to a good start last night on FOX - number one show in demos and high total people number.

10 have many post 8:30pm time slots that need filling currently, they really should be fast tracking this as soon as possible - especially since it has launched well.

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Singer Kelly Clarkson’s daytime talk show had a solid debut on Monday this week, with a 1.9 household rating. The first episode of The Kelly Clarkson Show featured Steve Carell introducing Clarkson to the stage, and special guest Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. It is produced by NBCUniversal so Nine has first bite to get the rights here.

Sunday’s Emmy Awards is the lowest rated and watched Emmys in US TV history. Against live NFL, the telecast averaged 5.95 million viewers with a 18-49 rating of 1.5, well down on last year’s 10.21 million viewers and 2.4 demo rating for last year’s awards ceremony which aired on NBC on a Monday.
Final ratings have Sunday’s awards pulling in 6.98 million viewers with a demo rating of 1.7.

Any ratings news on “Almost Family”, the series based on the Australian television series “Sisters”, which started yesterday?

It started today our time so not until tomorrow.

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Oops. OK. Thanks.

Jumped ahead of myself there. Got excited because I saw a story about it on Entertainment Tonight.

The debut of Almost Family (based on the Australian show Sisters) got off to a “soft” start on FOX despite having The Masked Singer as lead in.

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Oscars reported to be down 20% year-on-year to all time low.