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ABC had a good Monday night with the season finale of Grand Hotel and its reality show staple Bachelor in Paradise. The Eva Longoria-produced primetime soap saw a healthy boost as it wrapped its first season with a 0.6 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic and 2.8 million viewers, up two tenths from last Monday’s…

Football is back in America and from the early results, it's a touchdown for the well compensated NFL and its clearly relieved broadcasting partners. Cementing a shifting trend away from years of declining ratings, the September 5 official season kickoff game was up double digits over 2018 and Sunday Night Football…

The September 4 season six finale of TV Land's series Younger scored the hit comedy’s top rating for a season ender among Women 25-54 (1.4 in Live+3). The closer, which drew 1.2 million total viewers in L+3,  scored season highs among several key demos, including P25-54 (.89 rating), W18-49 (1.1) and P18-49 (.70)…

UPDATED, 1: 35 PM: In what was the most lopsided Sunday Night Football score ever for the NBC and NFL show, the New England Patriots’ 33-3 victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers last night has delivered its final numbers. And they are a lot like the 2018 SNF season opener and last week’s 100th-season opener between the…

Tennis fans tuned in en masse to Sunday’s U.S. Open men’s final to watch Rafael Nadal outlast Daniil Medvedev in a five-set thriller. Overnight ratings for the match from Flushing Meadow jumped by 33% over last year and earned the best numbers for a men’s final since 2015. Nadal-Medvedev served up a 2.0 overnight…

The upset by Canadian teenager Bianca Andreescu over superstar Serena Williams at the US Open Women’s tennis tournament propelled the network to a 2.7 overnight rating for its three-hour telecast. That’s ESPN's best for the event and up 13% from a 2.4 year ago, the previous high. The two-hour match portion, which saw…

It was the peacock network versus the alphabet network on Friday night. The peacock network won, as NBC once again rode its athletes and newsmag format to glory. A rerun of American Ninja Warrior had an 0.6/4 and 2.85 million audience for its two-hour broadcast, holding steady from its prior week. That led into Datelin…

UPDATE, 12:47 PM: The NFL's 100th season is officially underway and last night's Green Bay Packers' winning kickoff game against the Chicago Bears looks to have gotten things off on the right foot. The match-up snagged an audience of 22.0 million for NBC from 8:23 – 11:30 PM on Thursday. That's up 15.7% over the…

Last night’s women’s semifinals at the U.S. Open, which saw Serena Williams defeat Ukrainian fifth seed Elina Svitolina 6-3, 6-1, earned a 1.6 rating for ESPN. That’s up 14% from a year ago and equals the sports network’s best for that round since 2017 when all four players were Americans. The telecast’s rating peaked…

The premiere episode of WGN America’s Dog’s Most Wanted, marking the return of the famed bounty hunter, proved a strong draw on Wednesday night. The reality series, produced by Dorsey Pictures, follows Duane "Dog" Chapman and his family as they hunt wanted criminals. The episode drew nearly 1.7 million Total Viewers…

It seems that BH90210 is not making the grade for Fox. The meta (and wildly soapy and self-aware) revival of the classic Aaron Spelling primetime teen soap continues to slip since its strong debut. The latest episode Wednesday fell a tenth from last week with a 0.6 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic and 1.92…

The low-key battle for top summer reality show honors continues as NBC’s America’s Got Talent won Tuesday’s primetime, rising a tenth from last week to a night-leading 1.4 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic and 9.06 million viewers. On a night where some local stations preempted programming for coverage of…