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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Wednesday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 6.16.2021

Posted June 17, 2021 by Mitch Metcalf

      Analysis to follow.       Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   Top 50 Original Cable Telecasts with Demographic Detail Top 150 Original Cable Telecasts To search for a show: type Ctrl-F and type your show title in the search box. Top 150 Original Cable Telecasts: Wednesday June 16, 2021 P18-49 P2+ Rank […]

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THE SKED’S PILOT + 1 REVIEW: Free Agents”

Posted September 22, 2011 by Mitch Salem

> A lot can happen between the creation of a TV pilot in the spring and production of episodes for the regular season:  a writing/producing team is hired, audience focus groups weigh in, networks and studios (which may have had their own turnover in the off-season) give plenty of notes, both helpful and otherwise, and […]

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THE SKED: Liberace Draws A Crowd

Posted May 28, 2013 by Mitch Salem

  The same number of people–2.4 million–watched Sunday’s HBO premiere of BEHIND THE CANDELABRA, its Liberace biography directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring Michael Douglas and Matt Damon, as watched the series finale of Smash on NBC, a network with triple the available audience.  (And another 1 million people tuned for the rebroadcast of Candelabra […]

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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Saturday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 7.17.2021

Posted July 20, 2021 by Mitch Metcalf

      Analysis to follow.       Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   Top 50 Original Cable Telecasts with Demographic Detail Top 150 Original Cable Telecasts To search for a show: type Ctrl-F and type your show title in the search box. Top 150 Original Cable Telecasts: Saturday July 17, 2021 P18-49 P2+ Rank […]

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THE SKED: Week 1 Network Scorecard Coming Tomorrow

Posted September 26, 2011 by Mitch Salem

> Tonight is critical for 3 of the broadcast networks:  FOX will launch its major scripted gamble of the season, the big-budget TERRA NOVA; the CW will find out if GOSSIP GIRL still has enough of a pulse to launch the very different (other than having Josh Schwartz as Executive Producer) HART OF DIXIE; and […]

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BEHIND THE FRIDAY BOXOFFICE: 6/7/13

Posted June 8, 2013 by Mitch Salem

  OPENINGS:  THE PURGE (Universal) will be instantly profitable by the end of its high $30Ms weekend, and while a great deal of that is due to the $3M production budget, a US marketing spend of only $20M (less than half the normal big-studio amount) is a big help.  The key:  minimal expensive TV advertising.  […]

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SKEDBALL: Weekly Sports TV Ratings 9.20-9.26.2021

Posted September 28, 2021 by Mitch Metcalf

Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday September 20 through Sunday September 26, 2021.  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 two years […]

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THE SKED”S PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “A Gifted Man”

Posted October 1, 2011 by Mitch Salem

> A lot can happen between the creation of a TV pilot in the spring and production of episodes for the regular season:  a writing/producing team is hired, audience focus groups weigh in, networks and studios (which may have had their own turnover in the off-season) give plenty of notes, both helpful and otherwise, and […]

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