WHAT MATTERS:
- FINALS UPDATE:
- The NBA Finals Game 2 on Sunday adjusted up to 19.17 million viewers and 7.4 demo rating, up a whooping 23% from Game 2 last season. This was the biggest Game 2 in viewership since 1998, and the biggest Game 2 demo in my 14 years of records.
- Also on Sunday, The Tony Awards (1.0) avoided going sub-1 for the first time, and a few of the Fox comedies including Golan the Insatiable (0.5) also went up. Game of Thrones had a very impressive 3.65 for HBO.
- On Saturday, the Stanley Cup Finals adjusted up to 1.9, tying Game 1. Friday's What Would You Do? (1.1) and Whose Line Is It Anyway? (0.5) adjusted up while The Messengers (0.2) was down.
- ABC got overtime once again for Game 2 of the NBA Finals, which averaged a preliminary 6.1 A18-49 rating from 8:00 to 11:00. This was up from a 5.0 prelim average in the same period last year, which later adjusted up to 6.0. This game started an hour earlier so it may not adjust up as much as the Thursday game, but the time zone-adjusted household overnight was very similar to Thursday's Game 1 (which ended up with a 6.9 final).
- ABC's dominance left little for everyone else. The Tony Awards on CBS (0.9) preliminarily dipped below 1.0 for what is likely the first time ever. And scripted originals A.D. The Bible Continues (0.7), American Odyssey (0.4) and Golan the Insatiable (0.4) all got crushed.
- Friday's winner was the NBC re-air of the film Jurassic Park (1.2), which had pretty great numbers by movie standards the week before Universal's new installment Jurassic World is released in theaters. Meanwhile, What Would You Do? (1.0) came back to earth for ABC, but a very good showing from 20/20 (1.4) made up for it.
- Saturday was all about NBC's Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Finals, which
started before primetime but had a prelim 1.7 for the two primetime
hours. I'll update after finals.
WHAT MATTERS:
- FINALS UDPATE: NBC's Saturday NHL hockey went up to 1.5. HBO had a significant rebound from Memorial weekend with Game of Thrones (3.45).
- On Sunday, Fox got no interest in Golan the Insatiable (0.6), an import from Fox's late night animation block that led out of Family Guy (0.9). A.D. The Bible Continues (0.9) and American Odyssey (0.5) had minor rebounds for NBC.
- Friday saw the return of newsmagazine Primetime: What Would You Do? (1.2) in solid fashion. This was down a tenth from the summer premiere last season and built noticeably on its lead-in from a Shark Tank repeat (0.9). CW's volatile Whose Line Is It Anyway? shot back up to 0.5 for the 8:00 original.
- Saturday was all about NBC, which had Game 7 of the NHL Western Conference finals (preliminary 1.3).
Golan the Insatiable
Sundays, 9:30/8:30c, Fox
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