Ratings for Tuesday’s ESPN matches have been added to the table below. The 3:30 pm telecast of Belgium vs USA averaged 13,440,000 persons 2+, just behind the 13,774,000 for USA vs Portugal on Sunday June 22 at 6 pm, a much better time period. The streaming viewership had to be around a few million, so […]
NASHVILLE: Wednesday 10PM on ABC WHAT IT’S SAYING: Good old girls tusslin’ and singin’ in the world of country music.
Here are the weekend sports ratings for Saturday and Sunday December 24-25, 2016. Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 150K P2+). Programs are grouped by sport and ranked within each sport by P2+ audience size. For comparison, here is the same chart for the same weekend last year, […]
Based on Friday’s grosses, weekend #28 of 2014 looks like $134 million for the top 12 films Friday-Sunday, 30% below the norm for this weekend and very close to our forecast ($135 million). Opening at 3,967 theaters, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes from 20th Century Fox grossed $27.7 million through Friday and is on […]
When AMC issued its final 16-episode order for BREAKING BAD, there was immediate speculation that the network would split the show into 2 8-episode seasons. The network stayed silent at the time, but now that structure has been confirmed. Breaking Bad will return for the first of its Gus Fring-less final arc with […]
WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD. Here is an updated look at the 2019 film slates by studio. BOX OFFICE. Looking at North American box office, 2019 is now -5% below last year’s comparable span (2 points better than last week’s comparison) and now +1% above this point the past four years ($9.349 billion). Over the same […]
OPENINGS: As we had forecast on Friday night, the margin of victory for the weekend box office was razor-thin, and we won’t really know who won until final numbers are released tomorrow. For now, HIDDEN FIGURES (20th) is $172K below Rogue One at $21.8M, but Disney’s Rogue One projection relies on a speculatively strong […]
History Channel has to be awfully happy with its decision to get into the scripted programming business. Part 1 of HATFIELDS & MCCOYS (our review is here) premiered last night to the largest non-sports audience in basic cable history, almost 14 million people (17 million with the rebroadcast added), and what should be around […]