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In the week ending April 3, Entertainment Tonight surged 28% from the prior session to a 2.3 live-plus-same-day national rating, racking up its biggest Nielsen score in two months.

Ratings bloomed for Judge Judy in the first week of spring, the session ending March 27. The world’s most famous TV judge witnessed a 10% weekly surge to a daytime-leading 4.5 live-plus-same-day national Nielsen rating. Ironically the Judy jump came despite competition from coverage of the beginning of Senate confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee […]

Syndicated shows got slammed with a tsunami of preemptions in the session ending March 20 thanks to both Round 1 of the annual NAAA basketball tournament and coverage of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s address to the U.S. Congress. Family Feud fought its way to the top of the chart for the first time in four […]

Daytime hit Live with Kelly and Ryan and Tamron Hall were the only two of the 15 talk shows able to gain ground in a mostly frozen late winter session that ended March 13 that saw few winners. While many strips were being kicked out of their time periods by soccer coverage March 8-9, Live […]

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.

Her last week atop the syndicated game delivered a 6.6 rating, an increase of 2% from the week before and a gain of 12% from last year at this time.