Archive for December, 2025
 

 

THE SKED’S MONDAY SCRIPTED CABLE SCORECARD – 7/30/12

  Probably not surprisingly, the cable show hardest hit by the Olympics on Monday night was WWE RAW on USA, which fell from 2.3 to 1.5 for the evening, ending up behind LOVE AND HIP-HOP on VH1, which was down only 0.2 to 1...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

FRIDAY JULY 20 BOX OFFICE RESULTS

Despite the horrific murders in Aurora, Colorado at the midnight showing of The Dark Knight Rises, business remained quite strong in the nation’s movie theaters throughout Friday.  The 29th weekend of 2012 is looking lik...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

WEEKEND STUDIO ESTIMATES July 20-22: Dark Knight Rises Update

The Dark Knight Rises cooled to $45.6 million Saturday, down 39% from $75.1 million late-Thursday/Friday.  (In 2008, The Dark Knight dropped 29% on Saturday from Thursday/Friday, $47.7 million from $67.2 million.)  The openin...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

The Sked: Summer Olympics Ratings Day 3

Last night, NBC averaged a preliminary 11.4 rating with Adults 18-49 in prime time.  This edges the Beijing rating for the same night, which itself towered over the other recent summer Games.  Last night the NBC rating peaked...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

Broadcast Network Weekly & Summer Averages: Bring on the Olympics

Based on fast nationals for Friday-Sunday and official national ratings for Monday-Thursday, the week of July 16-22 looks like ABC and FOX in a tie for first place with CBS and NBC several notches below, fighting to stay out of...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY FRIDAY BOXOFFICE SCORECARD – 7/20/12

  No authoritative boxoffice figures will be available until Sunday or Monday, as the studios would prefer that they not be associated with financial issues this weekend.   Although–properly–the focus of the ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Episodes”

  EPISODES:  Sunday 10:30PM on Showtime   WHERE WE WERE:  Sean and Beverly Lincoln (Stephen Mangan and Tamsin Greig) are a married pair of British television writers who’ve had a modest success with a low-key ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED’S THURSDAY SCRIPTED CABLE SCORECARD – 6/19/12

  A new entry in the summer scripted brigade. TBS:  SULLIVAN & SON had a mediocre debut.  The first of its back-to-back episodes kicked off fairly well, just about even with the BIG BANG THEORY rerun that preceded it...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED’S WEDNESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 6/18/12

Another night on broadcast TV with nothing even managing a 2 rating. FOX:  SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE won the night for FOX, even though it was down 10% from last week to a 1.8. CBS:  BIG BROTHER shared the single biggest num...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY BOXOFFICE: “Dark Knight” Begins To Rise

  We’re now just over 10 days from the 12:01AM July 20 launch of THE DARK KNIGHT RISES, the summer’s last mammoth movie event, and The Hollywood Reporter has provided the first hard information about the epic&#...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

WEEKEND STUDIO ESTIMATES June 29-July 1

Ted now looks like a $54.1 million opening weekend, according to the studio estimate this morning (exceeding our forecast in Wednesday’s ShowbuzzDaily Weekend Predictions).  Warner Brothers has pulled Magic Mike’s ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

THE SKED’S PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “Perception”

  PERCEPTION:  Monday 10PM on TNT A lot can happen between the creation of a TV pilot in the spring and the production of episodes for the regular season: a writing/producing team is hired, audience focus groups weigh in,...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “The Closer”

  THE CLOSER:  Monday 9PM on TNT   WHERE WE WERE:  The LAPD, where Atlanta emigre Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson (Kyra Sedgwick), having triumphed over the initial prejudices of her all-male squad, has forged a w...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED SUNDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 7/15/12

Another Sunday with Game of Thrones probably beating everything on broadcast TV. CBS:  BIG BROTHER was the highest-rated show on the networks last night, with a 2.2 that was about 10% below the show’s Sunday premiere las...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED WEDNESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 7/4/12

  The bombs burst in midair for NBC on July 4th. NBC:  There are fireworks, and then there is the MACY’S 4TH OF JULY SPECTACULAR, by far the highest rated show of the night with a 1.7 (although that was down from 2....
by Mitch Salem