The Charts: Once Upon A Time and Gotham Rise on the Broadcast Network Ratings Chart

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10 years ago

Only two sci fi / fantasy shows have been in the broadcast network Top 25 based on ratings in the 18-49 demo the last few weeks–ABC’s Once Upon A Time and FOX’s Gotham–and those two were slipping precariously close to the edge at one point. But their ranking has improved the last two weeks with the former series rising to the Number 11 slot and the Latter coming in at Number 14 for the week. Interestingly, Once Upon A Time went up in the charts even though its ratings slipped one tick from the prior week, but the numbers were skewed a bit last week due to the preemptions and reruns on Tuesday because of election coverage. Next week Gotham will likely slip because its numbers dropped some on Monday, but I still expect to see both shows remain in the Top 25 through their Fall finales. CBS’ Person of Interest went MIA on the total viewers chart for the week, but that’s because it was preempted last Tuesday. And several other shows from that night dropped off the General Sentiment chart tracking social network activity for the broadcast net shows, again because of preemptions and reruns. The Walking Dead and American Horror Story continued their reign on the cable and social network charts and I don’t expect them to drop off any time soon. And Doctor Who landed at the Number 2 slot on the General Sentiment chart tracking social net activity for cable shows with its Season 8 finale.

Here is the full look at chart activity for genre shows for the week of November 3rd thru 9th:

Nielsen Twitter Rankings
Series	Network	Rank	Prior Week	Move -ment
The Walking Dead	AMC	2	1	Down
American Horror Story	FX	3	2	Down
Broadcast Networks Top 25 – Ratings 18-49
Series	Network	Rank	Prior Week	Move -ment	Viewers (MM)	Prior Week
Once Upon A Time	ABC	11	14	Up	2.5	2.6
Gotham	FOX	14	24	Up	2.4	2.2
Broadcast Networks Top 25 – Total Viewers
Series	Network	Rank	Prior Week	Move -ment	Viewers (MM)	Prior Week
No Genre Shows in Top 25
Cable Networks Top 25 – Total Viewers
Series	Network	Rank	Prior Week	Move -ment	Viewers (MM)	Prior Week
The Walking Dead	AMC	1	2	Up	13.5	14.5
The Talking Dead	AMC	7	4	Down	5.6	6.0
American Horror Story	FX	12	10	Down	4.2	4.5
General Sentiment – Broadcast Networks Top 25
Series	Network	Rank	Prior Week	Move -ment
Vampire Diaries	CW	3	6	Up
Gotham	FOX	8	7	Down
Once Upon A Time	ABC	9	10	Up
Sleepy Hollow	FOX	11	14	Up
The 100	CW	12	15	Up
Arrow	CW	16	21	Up
General Sentiment – Cable Channels Top 25
Series	Network	Rank	Prior Week	Move -ment
The Walking Dead	AMC	1	1	Same
Doctor Who	BBCA	2	3	Up
American Horror Story	FX	3	2	Down
The Talking Dead	AMC	10	n/a	Up

Nielsen Twitter Ratings ranked based on the Unique Audience – The total number of distinct Twitter accounts accruing at least one impression of one or more different Tweets ascribed to a TV episode. More info at this link.

General Sentiment tracks activity across the social networks for shows airing new episodes in Prime Time (start times between 8:00 PM and 10:55 PM EST Monday – Saturday and 7:00 PM and 10:55 PM EST on Sunday). This data collected on seven (7) major broadcast networks and 43 cable television networks. More info at this link.