ShowBuzzDaily’s Top 25 Friday Cable Originals: 9.5.2014
Ratings for the Top 25 original cable telecasts Friday:
SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “New Girl”
NEW GIRL: Tuesday 9PM on FOX NEW GIRL returned for its fourth season tonight with something to prove. Rarely has an acclaimed, popular comedy plunged so quickly and so badly, both critically and with viewers: the s...
PREMIERING TONIGHT: SHOWBUZZDAILY Pilot Review – “Scorpion”
SCORPION: Monday 9PM on CBS starting – Worth A Look PLAYERS: The real-life hacker Walter O’Brien, on whose adventures Scorpion is (very loosely) based–and who is also an Executive Producer on the sh...
Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 9/28/14
OPENINGS: THE EQUALIZER (Columbia/Sony) was a bit softer on Saturday than Denzel Washington’s other hits at this box office level, up 8% compared to 11% for American Gangster and 19% for Safe House. (Possibly b...
The Sked: SATURDAY Ratings 9.6.2014
Saturday preliminary broadcast ratings in prime, including two college football games (#7-Michigan State at #3-Oregon on FOX from 6:30-10:00 and Michigan at #16-Notre Dame on NBC from 7:30-11:00 pm ET). DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL The c...
PREMIERING TONIGHT: SHOWBUZZDAILY Pilot Review – “Madam Secretary”
MADAM SECRETARY: Sunday 8PM on CBS – Potential DVR Alert PLAYERS: Series creator Barbara Hall, a veteran of everything from Northern Exposure to Joan of Arcadia (which she created), and Army Wives to Homeland...
SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Extant”
It’s a mystery how some network messes ever get on the air, but that wasn’t the case with CBS’s EXTANT. On the contrary, its path was completely clear. After the network had a surprise smash hit las...
Year to Date Box Office & Worldwide Studio Scorecard 9.7.2014
WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD. The studio rankings remain unchanged, and the most noteworthy change is that Universal now boasts a film in the $300+ million worldwide box (Lucy with $126 million domestic and $192 million overse...
UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 25 Sunday Cable Originals: 8.31.2014
Below are the ratings in key demos for Sunday’s Top 25 original cable telecasts, plus a few more of interest. If you’d like additional lower-rated series included in the latter list, please let us know. S...
SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “The Good Wife”
Season 6 of THE GOOD WIFE has a tough act to follow: its own dazzling Season 5, which brought the show back from previous signs of subdued middle age and established it once again as one of the best shows on any form o...
The Sked: THURSDAY Ratings 9.11.2014
Thursday preliminary broadcast ratings (adult 18-49 ratings for last night, the same night last year and same night last week). The first Thursday Night Football game on CBS averaged a preliminary 5.5 adult 18-49 rating, an...
SHOWBUZZDAILY Pilot + 1 Review: “Red Band Society”
RED BAND SOCIETY: Wednesday 9PM on FOX Previously… on RED BAND SOCIETY: In a Los Angeles hospital, a half-dozen adolescents struggle with their health and with the general problems of being teenagers. Kara (Z...
SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 25 Tuesday Cable Originals: 9.9.2014
NETWORK UPDATE: EXTREME WEIGHT LOSS gained 0.1 in final Tuesday ratings. TUESDAY CABLE: Sons of Anarchy premiered with 6,199,000 persons 2+ live+same day, a record season premiere for the show on that metric: up from 5,8...
Weekend Box Office Predictions SEP 5-7
Weekend #36 of 2014 is looking like $54 million for the top 12 films this weekend, down 13% from the norm for this weekend, which is usually the weakest weekend of the year. In the last two years, this weekend has produced Ri...
SHOWBUZZDAILY NETWORK SCORECARD – 9.25.2014
Shondaland is open for business. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment) Thursday, the chart below displays preliminary key advertiser demographics (adult 18-34, 18-49 and 25-54 ratings), audien...