‘It’s All About Screens.’ This is the Daily Diary of Screens. On Thursday, July 16, 2015, CBS finished #1 as ‘‘The Big Bang Theory’‘ was the top program. BBC One finished #1 in the UK as ‘‘Celebrity MasterChef’‘ was the top program. Nine finished #1 in Australia but Ten’s ‘‘MasterChef Australia’ was the top program. FRIDAY AUSTRALIAN OVERNIGHT TV RATINGS (*SEE BELOW)
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For Thursday, July 16, 2015 (Posted on July 17, 2015)
CBS #1 Thursday as ‘The Big Bang Theory’ was the top program.
CBS
The Tiffany Network used old and new programming to win Thursday. At 8P, a rerun of ‘The Big Bang Theory’ finished #1 for the night with an average 7.16 million viewers and a 4.8 rating/9 share. At 830P, a rerun of ‘Mom’ finished #1 in its time slot with an average 5.84 million viewers and a 3.8/7. At 9P, ‘Big Brother’ finished #1 in its time slot with an average 6.0 million viewers and a 3.9/7. Then at 10P, ‘Under the Dome’ finished second in its time slot with an average 4.79 million viewers and a 3.0/5.
NBC
The Peacock Network didn’t quite have enough to take Thursday. At 8P, ‘Food Fighters’ finished with an average 3.82 million viewers and a 2.6/5. At 9P, a two-hour rerun of ‘Dateline’ finished with an average 5.43 million viewers and a 3.9/7.
ABC
The Alphabet Network didn’t have enough to challenge on Thursday. At 8P, ‘Astronaut Wives Club’ finished #2 in its time slot with an average 4.51 million viewers and a 3.6/7. At 9P, ‘Mistresses’ finished with an average 3.28 million viewers and a 2.6/5. At 10P, the Canadian summer favorite, ‘Rookie Blue’ finished with an average 3.61 million viewers and a 2.7/5.
Univision
The #1 Hispanic Network in America devoted the entire evening to ‘Premios Juventud’ as the awards show finished with an average 1.7/3 HH rating reaching a peak @ 9P with a 1.8/3 HH rating.
FOX
The Animal Network of Broadcast didn’t have much in the tank. At 8P, ‘Boom’ didn’t make much of a sound at it drew an average 2.01 million viewers and a 1.5/3. Then at 9P, ‘Wayward Pines’ finished with an average 3.20 million viewers and a 2.6/5.
The CW
The Little Network That Couldn’t imported a program and it didn’t float. At 8P, ‘Beauty and the Beast’ finished with an average 1.04 million viewers and a 0.8/2. Then at 9P, the British import, ‘Dates’ finished with an average 550,000 viewers and a 0.5/1. And at 930P, another episode of ‘Dates’ finished with an average 500,000 viewers and a 0.4/1.
For The Record
CBS finished #1 on Thursday with an average 5.764 million viewers and a 3.7/7. NBC finished #2 with an average 4.888 million viewers and a 3.4/6. ABC finished #3 with an average 3.801 million viewers and a 2.9/5. Univision finished #4 with an average 3.300 million viewers and a 1.7/3. FOXNC finished #5 with an average of 2.670 million viewers and was the #1 cable network on Thursday. FOX finished with an average 2.605 million viewers and a 2.0/4. History Channel finished with an average Telemundo finished with an average 1.300 million viewers and an 0.8/1. The CW finished with an average 781,000 viewers and a 0.6/1.
Today In TV History
On this date in 1961, John Chancellor became the on-air host of the ‘Today’ show on NBC-TV. Chancellor replaced the founding anchor, Dave Garroway.
Cable Television Top Ten Programs on Thursday 16 July 2015
#1 ‘O’Reilly Factor’ FOXNC 3.240 million viewers @ 8P
#2 ‘Mountain Men’ HIST 3.040 million viewers @ 9P
#3 ‘The Kelly File’ FOXNC 2.846 million viewers @ 9P
#4 ‘WWE Smackdown’ SYFY 2.153 million viewers @ 8P
#5 ‘Fixer Upper’ HGTV 2.121 million viewers @ 9P
#6 ‘Alone’ HIST 2.082 million viewers @ 1003P
#7 ‘Big Bang Theory’ TBS 1.996 million viewers @ 1030P
#8 ‘KidsChoiceSports’NAN 2.015 million viewers @ 8P
#9 ‘Hannity’ FOXNC 1.923 million viewers @ 10P
#10’House Hunters’ HGTV 1.882 million viewers @ 10P
Television News
Netflix Huge Jump In Q2 Subscribers
Netflix added 3.3 million new members worldwide in the second quarter of 2015, a company record for the historically weak period. The company’s net gain of 3.3 million new streaming members brought it to 65.6 million total subscribers.
Mobile News
How Often Do US Smartphone Owners Check Their Devices?
Roughly half (52%) of US smartphone owners say they check their phone a few times an hour (41%) or every few minutes (11%), according to recently-released survey results from Gallup, with that figure rising to almost three-quarters (73%) of young (18-29) smartphone owners. Besides the age skew, the survey also finds men slightly more likely than women to frequently check their smartphones, and iPhone users similarly slightly more likely than Android owners.
Overall, about 8 in 10 device owners surveyed said they keep their smartphone near them almost all the time during their waking hours.
Social Media Top Ten Television Programs for the Week of July 6 2015
(From Shareablee, which monitors the Facebook shares and Twitter retweets)
1. “Teen Wolf” (MTV) – 277,286 (6,141 Facebook shares; 271,145 retweets)
2. “Beyond Scared Straight” (A&E) – 37,244 (37,244 shares)
3. “Love and Hip Hop: Atlanta” (VH1) – 28,018 (28,018 shares)
4. “The Soup!” (E!) – 27,772 (27,461 shares; 311 retweets)
5. “The Fosters” (ABC Family) – 27,496 (10,107 shares, 17,389 retweets)
6. “The Strain” (FX) – 26,055 (21,361 shares; 4,694 retweets) – season premiere
7. “Hannibal” (NBC) – 24,315 (3,103 shares; 21,212 retweets)
8. “Scream” (MTV) – 18,030 (4,085 shares; 13,945 retweets)
9. “Power” (Starz) – 18,009 (13,717 shares; 4,292 retweets)
10.“Key & Peele” (Comedy Central) – 17.528 (16,214 shares, 1.314 retweets)
Cinema News
Box Office Results July 10-12, 2015 (Domestic)
#1 ‘Minions’ $115.20 Million in 4,301 theaters
#2 ‘Jurassic World’ $ 18.10 Million in 3,441 theaters
#3 ‘Inside Out’ $ 17.11 Million in 3,644 theaters
#4 ‘Terminator: Genisys’ $ 13.70 Million in 3,783 theaters
#5 ‘The Gallows’ $ 10.02 Million in 2,720 theaters
#6 ‘Magic Mike XXL’ $ 9.64 Million in 3,376 theaters
#7 ‘Ted 2’ $ 5.60 Million in 2,171 theaters
#8 ‘Self/Less’ $ 5.78 Million in 2,353 theaters
#9 ‘Baahubali:Beginning’ $ 3.58 Million in 236 theaters
#10 ‘Max’ $ 3.42 Million in 2,088 theaters
Coming This Weekend To A Theater Near You
‘Trainwreck’ starring Amy Schumer, Bill Hader, John Cena, Tilda Swinton & LaBron James
‘Antman’ starring Paul Rudd, Michael Douglas & Evangeline Lilly
‘Mr. Holmes’ starring Ian McKellen and Laura Linney
‘Lila & Eve’ starring Jennifer Lopez and Viola Davis
‘A Hard Day’ starring Lee Sun-kyun and Cho Jin-woong
‘All Creatures Big & Small’ starring Martin Sheen and Amy Grant
‘Ardor’ starring Alice Braga and Gael García Bernal
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BBC One
The Big One had the big program on Thursday. First at 8P, ‘DIY SOS: The Big Build’ finished with an average 3.68 million viewers (19.1%). Then at 9P, ‘Celebrity MasterChef’ continued to dominate with an average audience of 4.05 million viewers (20.6%). Later, at 1045P, ‘Motorway Cops’ brought in an average 2.17 million viewers (20.0%).
ITV
The Independent One at 730P had ‘Tonight’ and it was watched by 2.36 million viewers (12.9%). At 9P, ‘Superhospital’ continued with an average 2.25 million viewers (11.4%).
Channel 4
The Big Four at 8P presented ‘Grand Designs’ and it drew only 920,000 viewers (4.8%). Then at 9P, ‘Married at First Sight’ brought in the network’s high for the evening with 1.76 million viewers (8.9%).
BBC Two
The Little Two presented at 8P, ‘Ireland’s Wild River: The Mighty Shannon’ and it interested 1.21 million viewers (6.3%). That set up, at 9P, ‘Coast’ which drew an average 1.61 million viewers (8.2%). Then, ‘Mock the Week’ entertained the network high for the evening with an average 1.48 million viewers (8.7%).
Channel 5
The Viacom Five presented, at 9P, the live season finale of ‘Big Brother’ on Thursday (July 16) and Chloe Wilburn’s win was watched by an average 1.22 million viewers (6.7%). At 1045P, ‘Big Brother’s Bit on the Side’ was followed with 500,000 viewers (5.6%).
Sky Living
The Murdoch Living Space at 8P had ‘America’s Next Top Model’ and it drew 137,000 viewers (0.7%). Then at 9P, CBS’ ‘Madam Secretary’ pulled the audience up to 171,000 viewers (0.9%) with no continuity in programming what so ever. It’s Murdochville.
Down Under
Network Nine #1 on Thursday as Ten’s ‘MasterChef Australia’ was top program.
Network Nine
The National Network Nine finished #1 on Thursday with a overwhelming 33.5% share of the available audience. #2 was ‘Nine News’ with 1,072,000 viewers, which was the nation’s top newscast on Thursday. #3 was ‘Nine News 6:30’ with 1,040,000 viewers. #6, ‘A Current Affair’ finished with 929,000 viewers.
Seven
The Second Commercial Network in Australia finished just ahead of Ten with a 23.3% share. #5 was ‘Seven News’ with an average 956,000 viewers. #7 was ‘Seven News/Today Tonight’ with an average 892,000 viewers. And, #10 was ‘Home and Away’ with an average 681,000 viewers.
Ten
The Third Commercial Network in Australia finished #3 with a 22.9% share of the available audience. #1 for the second straight night was ‘MasterChef Australia’ with an average 1.186 million viewers. #4 was ‘MasterChef Australia-Masterclass’ which drew 989,000 viewers.
ABC
The Alphabet Network in Australia finished fourth with a 14.6% share. #8 was ‘ABC News’ with an average 862,000 viewers.
SBS
The Special Broadcast Service finished #5 on Thursday with a 5.7% share of the available audience.
Network Gem
The Jewel of Sports delivered the #9 program of the evening, ‘The Mid-Year Ashes: Second Test-England vs Australia Session 1’ with 782,000 viewers.
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Network Nine #1 on Friday as Nine News Australia’ was top program.
Network Nine
The National Nine Network finished #1 with a huge 36.5% share of the available audience. The #1 program in ‘Nine News’ with an average 1,078,000 viewers. #3, ‘Nine News 6:30’ finished with an average 916,0000 viewers. #7, ‘A Current Affair’ finished with an average 628,000 viewers. #10 was ‘Hot Seat’ with an average 581,000 viewers.
Seven
The Second Commercial Network finished second with a 27.0% share. #2 was ‘Seven News’ with an average 972,000 viewers. #4, ‘Seven News/Today Tonight’ finished with an average 862,000 viewers. #5 was ‘Better Homes and Gardens’ finished with 705=6,000 viewers.
Ten
The Third Commercial Network finished #3 with 16.5% share of the available audience. #8 was ‘Ten Eyewitness News First At Five’ with an average 598,000 viewers. #9 was ‘Family Feud’ with 584,000 viewers.
ABC
The Alphabet Network in Australia finished fourth with a 14.4% share. #6 was ‘ABC News’ and it finished with an average 648,000 viewers.
SBS
The Special Broadcast Service finished #5 with a 5.5% share of the available audience.
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