NETWORK FINALS: THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL adjusted to 4.5, down 0.1 from last week. Elsewhere, GOTHAM and SUPERNATURAL gained 0.1 in finals, while ARROW lost the same. Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart CABLE HIGHLIGHTS: Every show in Thursday’s cable Top 10 was sports related. NFL […]
Here are the weekend sports ratings for Saturday and Sunday December 30-31, 2017. Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 300K 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, December 31, […]
Based on Friday’s and Saturday’s grosses, Weekend #43 of 2013 now looks like $95 million for the top 12 films, a shade under yesterday’s estimate but still up 11% to 17% from the same weekend in recent years. Opening at 3,336 theaters Friday, Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa from Paramount grossed $12.6 million Friday and $11.5 million Saturday, […]
Worth a ticket. In movies, as in life, when someone is offered an illicit miracle drug that seems too good to be true, it usually is. So the general narrative arc of LIMITLESS doesn’t come as a huge surprise. What is surprising is that Neil Burger’s film, predicted to be the highest […]
Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday February 13 through Sunday February 19, 2023. Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 200K Persons 2+ live+same day). Programs are grouped by sport and ranked within each sport by P2+ audience size. Here is the same week last year: […]
…and now it’s all real. AMERICAN HUSTLE and GRAVITY lead the Academy Award nominations with 10 each, with 12 YEARS A SLAVE right behind at 9, and those three are probably the leading candidates for Best Picture as of this moment. But there’s plenty more to talk about, so here are the marquee categories […]
OPENINGS: TRANSFORMERS: RISE OF THE BEASTS (Hasbro/Paramount) launched at the higher end of tracking expectations with $60.5M. Beasts is a much bigger-budgeted effort than its immediate predecessor, 2018’s Bumblebee (which opened with $21.7M but had a 6x multiple thanks to word of mouth and the dynamics of the Christmas box office). More impressively, Beasts […]
NETWORK FINALS: The 8:30PM rerun of BOB’S BURGERS gained 0.1 in final numbers. Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart CABLE HIGHLIGHTS: Starz’s POWER remains the network’s biggest hit, although at 0.62 its season premiere was down 0.16 from 2017. On Adult Swim, ROBOT CHICKEN dipped […]