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THE SKED: “Community” and “Whitney” Stay On the Shelf

Posted October 9, 2012 by Mitch Salem

  Adjust all those DVRs set for the season premiere of the newly revamped COMMUNITY.  (And both of those set to record WHITNEY as well.)  The two shows had been scheduled to join the NBC Friday line-up on October 19, but now their debuts have been postponed, with Grimm reruns in that slot for the […]

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THE SKED: “Copper” Keeps Its Badge

Posted October 18, 2012 by Mitch Salem

  BBCAmerica has renewed its first original scripted drama COPPER for a 2d 13-episode season in 2013.  The network claims a total audience of 1M+ per episode, but that must count multiple airings and other platforms, since its most recent episode had about half a million viewers in its initial airing.  As a period piece, […]

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SHOWBUZZDAILY FRIDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 2.6.2015

Posted February 7, 2015 by Mitch Metcalf

  GLEE isn’t going out with any dignity. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary key advertiser demographics (adult 18-34, 18-49 and 25-54 ratings), audience skews (women 18-49, men 18-49 and adults 50+ shares) and total viewership (thousands of people over the age of 2). Ratings analysis and comparisons […]

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The Sked: Thursday Official Ratings — Game 2 Better Than It Seemed This Morning…But Still a Record Low

Posted October 26, 2012 by Mitch Metcalf

In the official ratings, Game 2 of the World Series came in at a 3.5 rating with Adults 18-49, above the 2.9 fast national rating and even higher than our adjusted 3.3 rating from this morning.  The World Series remains a disaster, however. Last night is clearly the lowest rated Game 2 in history with […]

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SHOWBUZZDAILY EARLY FRIDAY BOXOFFICE REPORT – 11/2/12

Posted November 3, 2012 by Mitch Salem

  The weekend looks bright for a couple of the new openings.  According to preliminary numbers at Deadline, WRECK-IT RALPH (Disney) had a $13.5M opening day, on its way to a $50M weekend.  If those numbers hold, the weekend will top the (non-Pixar) Walt Disney Animation record $48.8M opening for Tangled 2 years ago, which […]

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INTERNATIONAL BOX OFFICE through November 11

Posted November 11, 2012 by Mitch Metcalf

Updated International chart — now tracking the past six months on a rolling basis.  At any given time, that will translate to about 75 films on the chart at a time. New this week is Skyfall, which will probably top out at around $650 million worldwide (between Madagascar 3 and Men in Black 3).

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Weekend Studio Estimates 3.6-8.2015

Posted March 8, 2015 by Mitch Metcalf

Based on Friday’s and Saturday’s grosses, weekend #10 of 2015 now looks like $79 million for the top 12 films Friday-Sunday, a little better than yesterday’s $77 million estimate but still down significantly from the norms for this weekend among the worst first weekends of March on record.   Opening at 3,201 theaters Friday, Chappie from Warner […]

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Broadcast Season to Date Rankings

Posted November 19, 2012 by Mitch Metcalf

SEASON TO DATE through eight full weeks (54 nights of official ratings and 2 nights of adjusted fast nationals through Sunday, November 18, 2012): NBC is averaging a 2.79 adult 18-49 rating in prime time (up 14% from the same period last year). CBS is in second place with a 2.34 (down 19%). FOX is in […]

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