RATINGS
NBC has the primetime 2017-18 season-to-date lead among total viewers, with an average of 9.569 million through 20 weeks in “most current” results from Nielsen that include fast-official results for Feb. 9-11. It’s the first time NBC has ranked #1 in total viewers at any point during the season since it won the 2001-02 crown 16 years ago. Excluding sports, NBC is running closer to leader CBS at this point in the season than it’s been since 2002-2003. This is the first time NBC has had the Super Bowl and the Olympics in the same season.
Animal Planet’s 8-minute preview on Sunday, February 4 of the Irwin Family return to the net averaged a 1.1 rating among A25-54 and 2.26 million viewers in L+3 Nielsens. The special season 2 premiere of The Zoo delivered record ratings (.63 A25-54) and viewership (1.5 million) for the series.
SHAREABLEE SOCIAL TV RATINGS: Top U.S. Shows Overall by Engagement for the week of February 5, 2018
Program, Total Actions (000), Total Content, Actions per Content (000), Fans/Followers (000)
The Ellen DeGeneres Show (Warner Bros./synd.) 13341, 150, 89, 156870
E! News (E!) 10186, 778, 13, 32253
Riverdale (CW) 4367, 68, 64, 5768
The Four (FOX) 2461, 280, 9, 1139
This Is Us (NBC) 2287, 148, 15, 4727
Grey’s Anatomy (ABC) 2210, 46, 48, 31570
Tonight Show (NBC) 1829, 141, 13, 21526
Today Show (NBC) 1666, 601, 3, 12580
Good Morning America (ABC) 1496, 702, 2, 12427
TMZ (Warner Bros. synd.) 1430, 1170, 1, 14041
Based on Total Actions (reactions, comments, shares and retweets)
Top 10 U.S. Primetime Shows Video Power Index: Week of February 5, 2018
VPI, Video Actions, Video Views, Total Actions
Riverdale (CW) 901, 1.4M, 517K, 4.4M
Grey’s Anatomy (ABC) 774, 689K, 7.5M, 2.2M
This Is Us (NBC) 735, 1.2M, 17.2M, 2.3M
Supernatural (CW) 453, 327K, 1.6M, 603K
Tucker Carlson Tonight (Fox News) 399, 466K, 12.8M, 522K
The Flash (CW) 376, 439K, 1.2M, 720K
The Four (FOX) 373, 1.9M, 28.3M, 2.5M
Real Time With Bill Maher (HBO) 308, 206K, 1.6M, 315K
MythBusters (Science Channel) 177, 79K, 4.1M, 84K
The Fosters (Freeform) 141, 220K, 510K, 563K
Based on Shareablee’s Video Power Index, which combines viewing, consumer interactions and audience scale across all active platforms and includes the video performance of primetime TV shows.
Portent.IO’s TV Appetite Score: Top 10 for the week of February 5, 2018
Altered Carbon (Netflix) 99.9 +1.4
This is Us (NBC) 99.5 +1.6
Riverdale (The CW) 98.5 -0.2
Black Mirror (Netflix) 98.0 +0.1
Star Trek: Discovery (CBS) 97.8 +6.3Criminal Minds (CBS) 97.8 -0.2
Westworld (HBO) +97.4 +5.9
The Good Doctor (ABC) 96.8 +0.1
The Good Place (NBC) 96.4 +1.5
Stranger Things (Netflix) 96.2 -1.7
Portent.IO tracks search and Wikipedia volume, social media, torrent peers/downloads to see the digital buzz for every major TV show across 13 territories. This culmination of data is then aggregated into a score between 0 and 100 to compare all streaming and aired sho
Top 15 Live+7 Playback Rankers by actual gain for the week of January 15, 2018
Live+SD/Live+7/+7 Actual Gain
This Is Us (NBC) 2.6/5.2/+2.6
The Good Doctor (ABC) 1.7/3.6/+1.9
9-1-1 (Fox) 1.6/3.1/+1.5
Grey’s Anatomy (ABC) 2.3/3/6/+1/3
How to Get Away With Murder (ABC) 1.0/2.1/+1.1
Criminal Minds (CBS) .9/2.0/+1.1
Chicago Fire (NBC) 1.1/2.1/+1/0
Chicago Med (NBC) 1.3/2.2/+.9
Scandal (ABC) 1.3/2.1/+.8
Scorpion (CBS) .8/1.6/+.8
NCIS: New Orleans (CBS) 1.0/1.8/+.8
Bull (CBS) 1.3/2.1/+.8
NCIS (CBS) 1.5/2.3/+.8
The Resident (Fox) 1.0/1.8/+.8
The Good Place (NBC) 1.1/.19/+.8
Based on the difference between Nielsen’s first-reported Live + Same Day and the final Live + 7 Day ratings (for regular, original programs only).
Live + Same Day Viewers AA (millions) Friday, February 9, 2018 time period averages
Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated Live+SD
CBS: 8.31 million
Big Brother: Celebrity Edition 4.33, Bull 3.20
FOX: 3.32 million
Who Shot Biggie and Tupac? 1.80
NBC: 23.69 million
Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony 23.69
ABC: 3.16 million
Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown 2.77, Child Support 2.20, 20/20 3.32
UNI: 1.08 million
El Rico y Lazaro 1.10, Papa a toda madre 1.07, Caer en Tentacion 1.06
TELE: 0.72 million
Jose, Jose Principe de la cancion 0.61, Sangre de mi Tierra 0.73, Senora Acero 4: La Cayote 0.81
CW: 0.67 million
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend 0.62, Jane the Virgin 0.79
Monday A18-49 Analysis: NBC 5.7/222, CBS 3.95, ABC 2.76, FOX 1.8, CW .7, UNI .5/2, TELE .3/1
EXECUTIVE MOVES
Lynda Clarizio has joined the OpenSlate Board of Directors. Clarizio previously served as the President of Nielsen U.S. Media.
IN MEMORIAM
Singer/actor Vic Damone died February 11 from complications of a respiratory illness. He was 89. In addition to 1956’s The Vic Damon Show, the “You’re Breaking My Heart” singer appeared on TV shows including The Rebel and The Dick Van Dyke Show.
Actress Jan Maxwell died February 11 of cancer. She was 61. The 5-time Tony nominee’s TV work included shows like Brain Dead and The Good Wife.
This Day in History: 1741 – Andrew Bedford published American Magazine, the first American magazine (beating out Benjamin Franklin by 3 days).
Answer to Our Last Trivia Question: Who played the school mascot who broke his arm on Freaks and Geeks (1999-2000)? Shia LaBeouf. Kudos to: Marc Wollis/Cadent/NYC, Rev. Mark Wajda/Leesburg, FL, Shannon Malone-deBenedictis-Red Rock Films/Silver Spring, MD, Dan Kernkraut-Mindshare North America/NYC, Andy Pittman-TAMU/College Station, TX, Cynthia New-Spectrum Reach/Cape Girardeau, MO, Amy Kessler-Marola Opera Program/San Francisco, Lorrie Shilling/El Segundo, CA, Susan Nessanbaum-Goldberg-M and S Entertainment/LA, Tom Moore-Kalt Productions/LA
Today’s Trivia Question: What was the name of Robert’s dog on Everybody Loves Raymond (1996-2005)? (Email [email protected] with your answer and be sure to include your name, company, city and time zone. Unofficial rules: a limit of four correct answers from each time zone will be selected.)
Answer to Our Last Anagram: Upheld to Code = The Odd Couple. Kudos to: Charlene White-A+E Networks/Stamford, CT, Jeannette Sarpola-Comedy Central/NYC, Alessandra Kroeff-Univision/Miami
Short-lived Drama Series Anagram: I Am Mid Malice (Email [email protected] with your answer; first three respondents with the correct answer who aren’t in trivia will be posted in tomorrow’s newsletter.)