These numbers are current through Thursday, August 27.
WHAT MATTERS:
- Plenty has already been said about the huge debut of Fear the Walking Dead (4.93), which enters this table at well over four times the next biggest show. There are definitely a lot of different ways of looking at this. If it were a The Walking Dead episode, it would be just the forty-seventh biggest episode of that series. But if it were a broadcast drama episode, it would be the ninth-biggest one of those in the last four-plus years! (Trailing only six Empires and two Super Bowl lead-outs.) The bottom line is that it's OK to be a tad underwhelmed by this 4.93 in the context of The Walking Dead's history, but TWD is such an incredible anomaly that it will still be unbelievably enormous in any other context.
WHAT MATTERS:
- The few Sunday originals fared well again, with Big Brother (2.1) having a shot to adjust up to tie its season high and Bachelor in Paradise (1.4/1.3) either tying or setting a new Sunday season high.
- Preseason NFL preemptions mucked up the Friday/Saturday prelims again,
but Sunday night's only game was the national broadcast of
Cardinals/Raiders on NBC, which averaged a 2.0 from 8:00-11:00. The Fox
animated reruns (0.9/0.9/0.7/0.9/0.6) got a boost from the afternoon NFL game, including
a preliminary 1.9 in the 7:00 half-hour.
Fear the Walking Dead
Sundays, 9/8c, AMC
The Carmichael Show
Wednesdays, 9/8c, NBC
Public Morals
Tuesdays, 10/9c, TNT
Kevin from Work
Wednesdays, 8:30/7:30c, ABC Family
Playing House
Tuesdays, 10/9c, USA
WHAT MATTERS:
- It's the only week of the NFL preseason without Thursday games, and several shows took advantage. On CBS, Under the Dome (0.9) finally inched up after several weeks at 0.8, and Big Brother (2.0) may join it on the upside after finals. Food Fighters (0.9) was steady at a high-end rating for NBC, and even Fox's Boom! (0.7) did a little better than usual.
- It was a separation Thursday for the bubble dramas on ABC, where Mistresses (0.8) held at last week's above-average rating but Rookie Blue (0.5) collapsed to a new low. A repeat of Beyond the Tank (0.8) at 8/7c slightly outrated the last few episodes of The Astronaut Wives Club.
Continuing
our massive data dump of War of 18-49 tables for broadcast series that
don't have their own posts... here are the (often incomplete) records for currently airing news and sports series.
The A18-49+ season recaps combine all of a season's updates in the A18-49+ theme posts. Aside from "Defining Shows", everything here is copy-pasted from the 2014-15 updates published earlier this summer. Even the stuff in the intro has largely been written around here before. But if you missed all the early-summer updates, this serves as a one-stop way to catch up on the season from many angles!
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