>Well, it’s officially a rout. Team Salem has built a whopping $225 million lead, even with the under-performance of Green Lantern. If Team Metcalf is going to get back into this contest, Cars 2 better behave like a high-end Pixar film and Transformers: Dark of the Moon needs to be a mega-hit. Next update on […]
Based on Friday’s and Saturday’s grosses, weekend #11 of 2014 looks like $102 million for the top 12 films Friday-Sunday, a few million dollars lower than yesterday’s estimate and now slightly below the box office volume for a typical weekend in the middle of March. Two new wide releases opened softly Friday and were even […]
> SMASH, the ambitious musical drama that was intended from the start to be NBC’s new signature series (even if for some of us, it’s become a bit smudged) has officially been renewed for a 2d season. This was pretty much an inevitability. Not only is a huge amount of the network’s struggle for renewed […]
MACGYVER fans didn’t show up for the season finale. 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 […]
BROADCAST FINALS ABC: All the English-language networks had reruns with one exception. ABC’s were at 0.30/0.27. CBS: Reruns at 0.21/0.25/0.24. NBC: Reruns at 0.23/0.23. FOX: WWE SMACKDOWN was steady at 0.47. CW: Reruns at 0.06/0.06/0.08. TELEMUNDO: CASA DE FAMOSAS dropped 0.04 to 0.29, AMOR VALIENTE lost 0.03 to 0.19, and INFIEL was down a […]
> Creatively, last night’s season finale of BREAKING BAD was extraordinary in almost every way (how long till the final 16 episodes start airing?). In the ratings, according to TV By the Numbers it did quite well, but not quite up to the mark of its season premiere (around a 0.9 rating as opposed to […]
None of the returnees impressed in their season premieres. 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 […]
Tuesday premiered on all four broadcast networks last night, with almost all schedules unveiled entirely intact. CBS is in first place with a 3.3 preliminary Adult 18-49 rating from 8-11 pm, exactly on target according to our ShowbuzzDaily fourth quarter estimates. FOX opened a little below our fall forecast, while NBC (which premiered a week […]