Preliminary numbers at Deadline give PRISONERS (Warners) an easy win on Friday and almost certainly for the weekend, with a $7.5M opening day that should mean $20-22M by Sunday. Warners is following the Argo playbook with Prisoners, with acclaimed Telluride and Toronto Film Festival screenings followed by a quick wide release, and so far […]
FOX’s X Factor problem is becoming a crisis. FOX: THE X FACTOR fell another 0.3 from last week’s lackluster premiere to a series-low 1.9–and that’s before the regular season competition has even shown up. It’s down a horrific 1.6 from the parallel night last season. From 9-10PM, reruns of the DADS and BROOKLYN NINE-NINE […]
The rollout of pre-premiere week arrivals continued. CBS: The fall premiere of SURVIVOR was a heavy 0.6 below last September’s debut, 2.6 compared to 3.2. However, on the glass half-full side, it was 0.2 above the show’s 2.4 spring premiere. The BIG BROTHER season finale was fairly steady at 2.4, down just 0.1 from last year. NBC: The […]
The 38th weekend of the year is looking like a wobbly $71 million for the top 12 films, down 19% from the $89 million multi-year average for this weekend. Opening at over 3,100 theaters Friday (above the 2,886 average theater count for opening weekends the last two years), Prisoners from Warner Brothers should average $5,900 per theater for the weekend (for […]
FOX continued to reap some benefit from its early premiere week. FOX: The premiere of DADS had a 2.1, better than last season’s Raising Hope debut (1.7), but facing atypically weak competition on the other networks. BROOKLYN NINE-NINE looked more promising with a 2.5. At 9PM, NEW GIRL was strong at 2.9, a tick better than last season’s premiere, although the […]
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Monday ratings last night, last year and last week.
Read All Our Fall Pilot Reports here. DADS: Tuesday 8PM on FOX – Change the Channel It’s hard to believe that the comedy executives at FOX, who have put such high-quality shows as New Girl, The Mindy Project and Raising Hope on the air in recent years, not to mention the upcoming and very […]