- Numbers posted. CBS previewed new reality competition The Summit before its move to Wednesdays after Survivor.
Monday, September 30, 2024
Spotted Ratings, Sunday 9/29/24
WHAT MATTERS:
Saturday, September 28, 2024
Friday, September 27, 2024
Spotted Ratings, Thursday 9/26/24
WHAT MATTERS:
- Numbers posted. ABC Thursday saw the return of 9-1-1 launching another Ryan Murphy creation, Doctor Odyssey, while Grey's Anatomy was regularly scheduled in the 10/9c hour for the first time since its first two seasons on Sunday. Fox brought back cooking competitions Hell's Kitchen and Crime Scene Kitchen.
Spotted Ratings, Wednesday 9/25/24
WHAT MATTERS:
- Numbers posted. Following a breakout first season, Fox game show The Floor became the newest lead-out for The Masked Singer. NBC had the season premieres of Chicago Med, Chicago Fire and Chicago PD.
Thursday, September 26, 2024
SpotVault - Universal Basic Guys (Fox) - Fall 2024 Ratings
Universal Basic Guys
Sundays, 8:30/7:30c, Fox
SpotVault - The Golden Bachelorette (ABC) - Fall 2024 Ratings
The Golden Bachelorette
Wednesdays, 8/7c, ABC
SpotVault - Murder in a Small Town (Fox) - Fall 2024 Ratings
Murder in a Small Town
Tuesdays, 8/7c, Fox
SpotVault - Dancing with the Stars (ABC) - Fall 2024 Ratings
Dancing with the Stars
Tuesdays, 8/7c, ABC
Wednesday, September 25, 2024
Spotted Ratings, Tuesday 9/24/24
WHAT MATTERS:
- Numbers posted. Fox premiered new drama Murder in a Small Town, a Canadian co-production.
Tuesday, September 24, 2024
Spotted Ratings, Monday 9/23/24
WHAT MATTERS:
- Numbers posted. 9-1-1: Lone Star returned to Fox for its final season after sitting out in 2023-24, leading into the regular timeslot premiere of Rescue Hi-Surf. NBC's The Voice was back and launched new drama Brilliant Minds at 10/9c.
Monday, September 23, 2024
Spotted Ratings, Sunday 9/22/24
WHAT MATTERS:
- Numbers posted. Fox and CBS had dueling new drama previews in the 8/7c hour, with Fox's Rescue Hi-Surf airing after the national NFL lead-in against CBS' Matlock. Hi-Surf will have its regular timeslot premiere tonight, while Matlock's next new episode on Thursday is still over three weeks away.
Saturday, September 21, 2024
Friday, September 20, 2024
Thursday, September 19, 2024
Spotted Ratings, Wednesday 9/18/24
WHAT MATTERS:
- Numbers posted. Survivor returned to CBS with a two-hour premiere, leading into Big Brother for its first couple weeks. ABC continued its pre-premiere week rollout with the launch of The Golden Bachelorette.
The War of 18-49, The Great North
A New-Era Cartoon Finally Sticks
After losing American Dad! and The Cleveland Show, Fox spent several years attempting to incorporate live-action comedies into its Sunday lineup, perhaps most notably with Will Forte's The Last Man on Earth, but recommitted to going all-animation starting in fall 2019 with Bless the Harts. Though Harts only lasted two seasons and early 2020 newbie Duncanville just one, Fox was finally able to find some improvement on those shows with the January 2021 launch of The Great North. Its season one average was carried by two January episodes that led out of NFL playoff games, but the show did prove to be a little stronger than Duncanville when the dust settled, typically dropping about 15% of its Simpsons lead-in.
Seasons two and three got similar levels of NFL boost, but in these seasons it was airing in the fall after the regular season NFL lead-ins. Once all that inflation was gone in the winter/spring, The Great North was a clear weak link when lined up with Simpsons, Bob's Burgers and Family Guy, but it was doing enough to stay on the air.
Season four saw The Great North completely miss out on all those fall lead-ins, leading to a catastrophic-looking drop in its ratings averages. The silver lining was that Fox also chose this year (plus spring 2023's Housebroken) to start rolling out more animated newbies, Krapopolis and Grimsburg, and those shows arguably looked even worse. In the end, this has reinforced at least through 2023-24 that The Great North is the strongest (or least weak) animated newbie in this generation. That's a low bar to clear, but it's been enough for the show to hang on for a fifth season. It's aired a few episodes in early September, getting a bit of the early NFL juice, and then will return at midseason.
Adults 18-49 info by season:
| Seas | Year | Slot | Avg | y2y | Lo | Hi | Results | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2021 | Sunday 8:30 | 0.55 | 0.3 | 2.1 | detail | C | |
| 2 | 2021-22 | 0.40 | -27% | 0.2 | 0.8 | detail | C+ | |
| 3 | 2022-23 | 0.33 | -17% | 0.2 | 0.8 | detail | C+ | |
| 4 | 2024 | Sunday 9:00 | 0.15 | -54% | 0.1 | 0.2 | detail | C- |
| 5 | 2024-25 | Su 9:30, Su 9:00, Th 9:30 | 0.14 | -5% | 0.1 | 0.3 | detail | C+ |
Historical-adjusted ratings by season:
| Seas | Year | A18-49+ | Label | Now25 | y2y | Lo | Hi | Premiere | Finale |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2021 | 85 | marginal | 0.27 | 47 | 330 | 107 | 47 | |
| 2 | 2021-22 | 78 | marginal | 0.25 | -8% | 43 | 149 | 133 | 43 |
| 3 | 2022-23 | 77 | marginal | 0.24 | -1% | 40 | 176 | 176 | 40 |
| 4 | 2024 | 40 | flop | 0.13 | -48% | 26 | 58 | 58 | 42 |
| 5 | 2024-25 | 45 | flop | 0.14 | +14% | 31 | 94 | 35 | 44 |
| AVERAGE: | 65 | flop | |||||||
| CAREER: | 324 | utility | |||||||
The War of 18-49 chronicles the ratings history of veteran primetime series. For more, see the Index.
Wednesday, September 18, 2024
Spotted Ratings, Tuesday 9/17/24
WHAT MATTERS:
- Numbers posted. ABC featured the return of Dancing with the Stars leading into new Kaitlin Olson crime drama High Potential.
Tuesday, September 17, 2024
The War of 18-49, The Equalizer
CBS Sunday Wakes Up
Starting with the move of The Good Wife to Sunday in 2011, CBS Sunday became a relative soft spot for the network ratings-wise. While shows like TGW, Madam Secretary and Elementary at least offered a prestige element, there were also newbie failures in the 8/7c hour like Wisdom of the Crowd and God Friended Me that continually held the network back, even when they started trying a bit harder for ratings with NCIS spin-offs.
In early 2021, though, CBS finally found the 8/7c anchor that could really get them back in the game. The Equalizer had the best possible help for its series premiere, airing after the Super Bowl to over 20 million viewers and a 5.1 demo. It wasn't a great showing by Super Bowl lead-out standards at the time, but it still translated to a strong start in its first regular episode the next Sunday, when it averaged a 0.93 demo (144 Plus) and built on its 60 Minutes lead-in. More importantly, it held up just fine even following a four-week hiatus through most of March, refusing to drop below the league average even in the late spring.
In the next two seasons, The Equalizer got the chance to air in the fall, when CBS had late-afternoon NFL lead-ins into 60 Minutes, and that helped produce multiple big hit results in the fall each season. And the show continued to do almost as well in the winter/spring portions, holding at or just below the league average.
Season four saw the show deprived of the NFL once again due to the writers' strike delays. But some of that was counter-balanced by the show getting its strongest scripted teammate yet in 9/8c newbie Tracker. In the end, The Equalizer was only barely down from its first three seasons and posted a fourth straight season in the 110s. But Tracker was so successful that it will inherit The Equalizer's 8/7c post-NFL perch starting in fall 2024, leaving The Equalizer to the later 9/8c hour. That probably won't help The Equalizer's ratings, but the night as a whole could be historically strong for the eye.
Adults 18-49 info by season:
| Seas | Year | Slot | Avg | y2y | Lo | Hi | Results | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spring 2021 | Sunday 8:00 | 0.75 | 0.7 | 0.9 | detail | B+ | |
| 2 | 2021-22 | 0.61 | -19% | 0.4 | 0.8 | detail | B | |
| 3 | 2022-23 | 0.50 | -17% | 0.3 | 0.8 | detail | B- | |
| 4 | Spring 2024 | 0.43 | -14% | 0.3 | 0.6 | detail | B | |
| 5 | 2024-25 | Sunday 10:00 | 0.26 | -39% | 0.2 | 0.3 | detail | C- |
Historical-adjusted ratings by season:
| Seas | Year | A18-49+ | Label | Now25 | y2y | Lo | Hi | Premiere | Finale |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spring 2021 | 116 | solid | 0.37 | 102 | 144 | 144 | 109 | |
| 2 | 2021-22 | 119 | solid | 0.38 | +3% | 88 | 165 | 151 | 100 |
| 3 | 2022-23 | 117 | solid | 0.37 | -1% | 82 | 185 | 155 | 113 |
| 4 | Spring 2024 | 113 | solid | 0.36 | -3% | 90 | 166 | 127 | 113 |
| 5 | 2024-25 | 82 | marginal | 0.26 | -27% | 60 | 110 | 107 | 79 |
| AVERAGE: | 110 | solid | |||||||
| CAREER: | 548 | staple | |||||||
The War of 18-49 chronicles the ratings history of veteran primetime series. For more, see the Index.
Monday, September 16, 2024
Saturday, September 14, 2024
Friday, September 13, 2024
Thursday, September 12, 2024
A18-49+ Season Comparison Chart (thru 2023-24)
This is an interactive chart allowing you to compare seasonal A18-49+ ratings (through 2023-24) for up to three different shows. It includes the 164 broadcast scripted shows with at least a 300 Career A18-49+, the same shows included on the Career A18-49+ Sortable Table.
Career A18-49+ Sortable Table (thru 2023-24)
This is the Career A18-49+ sortable table, with A18-49+ numbers that can
be used to evaluate the full run of a series. This includes Career A18-49+,
the sum of each individual season's historical-adjusted A18-49 rating,
as well as how many times each show went over some of the A18-49+ label thresholds.
A few quick notes about what's in here:
- This includes all 164 broadcast scripted series with a career A18-49+ total of 300 or higher. Unlike in previous years, that means a handful of netlet shows are in the mix (though of course they can be filtered out easily). The 45 "hit for CW" and 35 "solid for CW" labels are applied to the "hit" and "solid" counts for those shows.
- This number will be incomplete for shows that aired before 1999, but to help account for this, the number of missing seasons is included in parentheses under the "Seasons" column. You can also filter in or out the shows that have missing seasons, as well as the shows still "active" (and thus still adding to their counts).
Wednesday, September 11, 2024
The War of 18-49, News Series thru 2023-24
Here are War of 18-49 records for currently airing news series.Jump to a show: 20/20 | 48 Hours | 60 Minutes | America's Funniest Home Videos | Dateline Fri | What Would You Do?
The War of 18-49, Post-2020 CW Scripted: Superman and Lois
Here are War of 18-49 records for currently airing CW scripted series that are not yet four years old and thus don't have stand-alone War pages.Tuesday, September 10, 2024
The War of 18-49, Post-2020 Fox Scripted: Alert, Animal Control, The Cleaning Lady and more!
Here are War of 18-49 records for currently airing Fox scripted series that are not yet four years old and thus don't have stand-alone War pages. This year I'm including shows that are still (!) in limbo as of the end of the summer. Please let me know if anything still alive was left out.Jump to a show: Alert: Missing Persons Unit | Animal Control | Grimsburg | Krapopolis | The Cleaning Lady
The War of 18-49, Post-2020 NBC Scripted: Found, Night Court, The Irrational and more!
Here are War of 18-49 records for currently airing NBC scripted series that are not yet four years old and thus don't have stand-alone War pages.Jump to a show: Found | Lopez Vs. Lopez | Night Court | The Irrational
Monday, September 9, 2024
Spotted Ratings, Sunday 9/8/24
WHAT MATTERS:
- Numbers posted. Fox used its first NFL lead-in to preview new cartoon Universal Basic Guys, then had the return of Bob's Burgers and two episodes of The Great North.
The War of 18-49, Post-2020 CBS Scripted: Ghosts, Tracker, Fire Country and more!
Here are War of 18-49 records for currently airing CBS scripted series that are not yet four years old and thus don't have stand-alone War pages.Jump to a show: Elsbeth | FBI: International | Fire Country | Ghosts | Tracker
The War of 18-49, Post-2020 ABC Scripted: Abbott Elementary, Will Trent
Here are War of 18-49 records for currently airing ABC scripted series that are not yet four years old and thus don't have stand-alone War pages. Jump to a show: Abbott Elementary | Will Trent
Saturday, September 7, 2024
Friday, September 6, 2024
Schedules Plus & The Breakdown Index for 2023-24
The Breakdown
The Breakdown is a comprehensive look at the broadcast networks' performance in the most recent season, comparing the season's historical-adjusted ratings with the previous season (and the historical averages).
The Breakdown is a comprehensive look at the broadcast networks' performance in the most recent season, comparing the season's historical-adjusted ratings with the previous season (and the historical averages).
The Breakdown: CW Sunday in 2023-24 (The Chosen)
It's time for a journey through the CW Sunday schedule in 2023-24...
Thursday, September 5, 2024
The Breakdown: Fox Sunday in 2023-24 (The Simpsons, Krapopolis, The Great North and more!)
It's time for a journey through the Fox Sunday schedule in 2023-24...
Wednesday, September 4, 2024
The Breakdown: NBC Sunday in 2023-24 (Sunday Night Football and more!)
It's time for a journey through the NBC Sunday schedule in 2023-24...
Tuesday, September 3, 2024
The Breakdown: CBS Sunday in 2023-24 (The Equalizer, Tracker, CSI: Vegas and more!)
It's time for a journey through the CBS Sunday schedule in 2023-24...
Monday, September 2, 2024
The Breakdown: ABC Sunday in 2023-24 (America's Funniest Home Videos, American Idol, What Would You Do?)
It's time for a journey through the ABC Sunday schedule in 2023-24...
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