BROADCAST FINALS:  ABC’s NBA game was at 0.55.  FOX’s COLLEGE BASKETBALL was at 0.14.  On CW, MASTERS OF ILLUSION ticked down to 0.04, and WORLD’S FUNNIEST ANIMALS ticked up to 0.04.  In late night, NBC’s SNL gained 0.05 to 0.76.   Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  COLLEGE BASKETBALL was at […]

> It’s a measure of how desperately this year’s Oscar needed some kind of surprise that the closest thing to a thrill all evening was Meryl Streep’s win as Best Actress.  Streep has been winning Academy Awards since 1979, and she’d been touted for her performance as Margaret Thatcher since months before THE IRON LADY […]

Frozen continues to push Disney to a clear first place finish for the 2013 slate.  And thanks to continued strong overseas grosses for The Wolf of Wall Street, Paramount has surged ahead of Lionsgate/Summit by a nose.  For a complete ranking of films individually by worldwide performance click here. An early look at the 2014 Studio Scorecard can be […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  THE ROOKIE gained 0.04 to 0.49, THE ROOKIE: FEDS rose 0.05 to 0.32, and WILL TRENT was steady at 0.29. CBS:  Reruns at 0.37/0.29/0.24. NBC:  Back from a rerun week, NIGHT COURT dropped 0.05 to 0.38.  AMERICAN AUTO held at 0.24, THE VOICE climbed 0.04 to 0.50, and THAT’S MY JAM […]

  OPENINGS:  JOHN WICK CHAPTER 3: PARABELLUM (Thunder Road/Summit/Lionsgate) continued the upward climb of the franchise in the US with a $57M weekend, substantially ahead of the $30.4M for Wick 2, which was above the $14.4M of the original.  If Parabellum plays out like Wick 2, it could cross $150M in the US, on costs […]

  AFTERNOON UPDATE:  No major changes, as THE BACHELOR and the CBS 9-10PM shows each found an extra 0.1 (keep the latter two off their lows), while SUPERNATURAL shed the same amount. TUESDAY CABLE:  The season finale of BEING MARY JANE (BET) hit a new series high with 1.6 in its 2d hour (up 0.2 […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  STATION 19 rose 0.08 to 0.50, and GREY’S ANATOMY was up 0.05 to 0.43.  A rerun followed at 0.17. CBS:  Reruns at 0.33/0.26/0.21/0.16. NBC:  Reruns at 0.30/0.28/0.23. FOX:  NEXT LEVEL CHEF rose 0.04 to 0.40, and ANIMAL CONTROL ticked up to 0.21, followed by a rerun at 0.12. CW:  Reruns at […]

> SILENT HOUSE:  Watch It At Home – A Curiosity SILENT HOUSE isn’t the first feature-length film to provide the illusion that it’s all been shot in a single continuous take.  The most famous was Hitchcock’s Rope, but in his era, it was technologically impossible to actually shoot for 90 minutes straight, because rolls of […]