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OSCARLAND: Xmas at Marty’s

Posted October 30, 2013 by Mitch Salem

  The big news this week in Oscarland was the confirmation that Martin Scorsese’s WOLF OF WALL STREET (Paramount), starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Matthew McConaughey, Jonah Hill and many more, which wasn’t finished in time for its scheduled November 15 opening, will arrive on Christmas Day, just in time for the potential Oscar equivalent of an election’s […]

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OSCARLAND: The Battle Between Good and Evil Begins

Posted October 23, 2013 by Mitch Salem

  Over the weekend, this year’s Oscarland acquired its first helping of Conventional Wisdom, thanks to the initial release of 12 YEARS A SLAVE (Fox Searchlight) in theatres and the unveiling of SAVING MR. BANKS (Disney) at the London Film Festival and to selected critics.  That Wisdom may very well change a dozen times between […]

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OSCARLAND: We Are Here

Posted October 16, 2013 by Mitch Salem

  Like presidential politics, the Oscar race doesn’t really stop anymore; one campaign gets underway before the last has even ended.  Argo had yet to collect its statuettes in February before we were already hearing about the awards chances for movies screened at Sundance the month before, especially when Oscar savant Harvey Weinstein bought the […]

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SHOWBUZZDAILY EMMY AWARDS LIVE BLOG

Posted September 22, 2013 by Mitch Salem

7 Welcome to SHOWBUZZDAILY’s live coverage of the 2013 Emmy Awards!  Will this be the year Netflix storms the barricades with House of Cards?  Will the Academy decide it can love a sit-com as much as it does Modern Family?  Stay tuned… (All Times PDT) 5:02PM:  CBS came awfully close, but the Jets game ended […]

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Weekly Network Ratings & Summer to Date Standings

Posted September 9, 2013 by Mitch Metcalf

Projected weekly network ratings in prime time (based on four days of official nationals and three days of fast nationals).   The return of the NFL regular season pushed NBC to the top of the heap (with not one but two prime time games, on Thursday and Sunday).  NBC matched the same week last year with […]

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THE SKED: The Emmy Nominations – Winners and Losers

Posted July 18, 2013 by Mitch Salem

  Nominations were announced this morning for the 65th Annual Emmy Awards, and as always there are a slew of them–a complete list is here.  Also as usual, the nominees are a mix of a lot of familiar names and titles with a few exciting new ones.  This year, though, the most revolutionary newcomer isn’t […]

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THE DAY AFTER: Oscar Thoughts

Posted February 25, 2013 by Mitch Salem

  There are 4 ways an Oscar night can be memorable: A Great Host:  Seth MacFarlane was bad–maybe not James Franco bad, but bad.  The ways he was bad, though, weren’t in any way unexpected.  Meta-gags and courting offensiveness are the things that have made him very, very rich.  When you hire Seth MacFarlane, you’re […]

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The Sked: Oscar Ratings — Not a Disaster — UPDATE

Posted February 25, 2013 by Mitch Metcalf

Based on the fast national ratings for Sunday, the Academy Awards telecast should average around a 13.4 rating with adults 18-49 (adjusting the preliminary 12.1 rating upward to account for the Pacific time zone seeing the show three hours before the normal network feed pattern).  If our estimated adjustment is correct, this would be the […]

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