Syndicated shows did a good job holding most or all of their robust recoveries from the Beijing Winter Olympics in the session ending March 6, despite running into preemptions for coverage of the State of the Union address in some cases. For example, Dr. Phil kept all of its double-digit increase from the week before […]
Many of the major syndicated shows staged sharp recoveries from the Beijing Winter Olympics in the session ending Feb. 27, but none was more spectacular than Access Hollywood, which rocketed 100% week to week in both households and key demos while adding well over 600,000 more total viewers each day. With that, Access vaulted from […]
Syndicated shows were on thin ice competing against the first full week of the Beijing Winter Olympics in the session ending Feb. 13, and many were retitled to avoid having the Olympics losses included in their regular full-season averages. One prominent show that did not experience a severe decline due to the Olympics preemptions, schedule […]
Only two of the 15 talk shows were able to break into positive ratings territory in the week ending Feb. 6: Rachael Ray, which rose 13% to a season-best 0.9 household rating, and Tamron Hall, which garnered a 14% spike to a new season high 0.8.
The top-rated game show slipped 2% to a 6.5 live-plus-same-day national Nielsen rating, even though its champion contestant was upset in a last-second thriller on Jan.27 after 40 consecutive victories.