Last night may have been the third and final of the three presidential debates, but some people were already checked out. An estimated 59.2 million people tuned in to watch Mitt Romney and Barack Obama talk about foreign policy last night, according to ratings released by Nielsen.
Last week’s debate on domestic policy brought in 65.6 Read More
Nielsen ratings are in for last night’s debate. An estimated 65.6 million people watched the second debate last night.
The town hall-style debate, which was a bit more lively than the first one, but was viewed by slightly less people. According to Nielsen, 67.2 million people watched the last debate. Nielsen figures don’t include Read More
Girls, the ultra-buzzy new HBO series, didn’t do as well as its intense presence on your Twitter feed might have indicated–its 872,000 viewers make it a stronger performer than, say, its Sunday night comedy predecessor, Ricky Gervais’s Life’s Too Short (with 810,000 viewers), but a weaker one than its lead-in, the season finale of Eastbound Read More
Harvey Weinstein’s Bully, the subject of hue and cry and petition upon its R rating from the MPAA, is to eschew its rating and come out unrated on March 30. Per a Weinstein Company press release regarding the documentary’s release: “Furthering proof that the R rating for some language is inappropriate for a Read More
Last night’s Super Bowl received the third-best “overnight” ratings of all time, following only the games held in 1987 and 2011. It was good news for NBC all around, with a 47.8 rating for the game and a 19.4 rating for the lead-out program The Voice (that series’s best rating ever). The program increased in Read More
Last night, Conan O’Brien returned to late night TV for the first time since his acrimonious departure from NBC in January. The debut episode of his new TBS show, “Conan,” was a hit with higher ratings than Jay Leno’s “Tonight Show,” Dave Letterman’s “Late Show,” “The Daily Show,” and “The Colbert Report.” Read More
