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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Tuesday Network Ratings Scorecard: 9.9.2014

  Time for the Utopia?  More like Dystopia! gag. FOX:  UTOPIA crashed by more than half from its preview airing on Sunday night, down to 0.9 against mostly weak summer competition.  To say this bodes badly for the new s...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings 9.27-28.2014

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday September 27 and Sunday September 28, 2014. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television po...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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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...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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Reviews

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “The Mindy Project”

  THE MINDY PROJECT:  Tuesday 9:30PM on FOX After an uneven season and a half that seemed to slide from one genre and tone to the next on a nearly weekly basis (it’s a rom-com!  it’s a workplace comedy!), lea...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Satisfaction”

  No, honestly:  what the hell was that? All snark aside, it was admirable and really long past due for USA Network to try to get out of the “characters welcome,” franchise-centric box it had put itself into.�...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Film Festival

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto 2014 Review: “The Humbling”

  THE HUMBLING (Millenium) – no release date set – Watch It At Home THE HUMBLING wasn’t one of Philip Roth’s major novels, and Barry Levinson’s film, despite striking performances from Al Paci...
by Mitch Salem
 
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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...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY Network Scorecard – 9.21.2014

  Almost there… CBS:  The network used the eve of the fall TV season to launch MADAM SECRETARY.  The night started with a big boost from the 8.3 overtime of the Seattle/Denver Super Bowl rematch, which went into pr...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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Current Release

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto 2014 Review: “St. Vincent”

  ST. VINCENT (Weinstein) – Opens October 24 – Worth A Ticket Bill Murray has perfected the persona of the grouchy, reluctant hero.  The image has even attached itself to him professionally:  although he̵...
by Mitch Salem
 
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EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “The Equalizer” Takes Care of Business

  This weekend, Denzel Washington is proving himself yet again one of the last truly reliable movie stars.  Just a week after Liam Neeson flopped with A Walk Among the Tombstones, preliminary numbers at Deadline have THE ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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The Sked: MONDAY Ratings 9.8.2014

Monday preliminary broadcast ratings (adult 18-49 ratings for last night, the same night last year and same night last week).  ABC’s Bachelor in Paradise is inflated by two major-market local pre-emptions (on WABC New ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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Current Release

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto 2014 Review: “Nightcrawler”

  NIGHTCRAWLER (Open Road) – Opens October 31 – Worth A Ticket Over the past few years, Jake Gyllenhaal has seemed determined to scrub the wholesomeness out of his screen image, in movies like Zodiac, Brothers,...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Weekend Box Office Predictions SEP 19-21

Weekend #38 of 2014 is looking like $104 million for the top 12 films this weekend, up 20% from the norm for this weekend. Opening at around 3,500 theaters Friday (above the 2,886 average theater count for opening weekends the ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 19 Box Office Report

Based on Friday’s grosses, weekend #38 of 2014 looks like $91 million for the top 12 films Friday-Sunday, 6% above the norm for this weekend ($86 million). Opening at 3,604 theaters, The Maze Runner from 20th Century Fox ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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Pilot Reports

PREMIERING TONIGHT: SHOWBUZZDAILY Pilot Review – “Black-ish”

  BLACK-ISH:  Wednesday 9:30PM on ABC – Worth A Look   PLAYERS:  Star and Executive Producer Anthony Anderson, and recurring guest star/EP Laurence Fishburne.  (And Executive Producer Larry Wilmore, although...
by Mitch Salem
 
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