The weekend looks like a terrific $242 million for the top 12 films, a little better than it looked yesterday (now 20% better than the multi-year average for this weekend).  Twilight Breaking Dawn Part 2 appears a little stronger than it did yesterday and is close to matching our predictions in Wednesday’s  ShowbuzzDaily Weekend Forecast.  Lincoln will definitely […]

Last night ABC won prime time easily with a 2.2 fast national rating with adults 18-49 for the thrilling overtime upset of Stanford over Oregon.  We estimate that the game will go up to around a 2.5 rating in the official nationals (which will properly count the Pacific time zone, scheduled to be released Tuesday […]

  OPENINGS:  Was it the cash grab of splitting the final novel into 2 movies?  The tabloid antics of its stars?  In any case, “close but no cigar” seems to be the result for THE TWILIGHT SAGA:  BREAKING DAWN PART 2 (Summit/Lionsgate).  Its $71.2M opening day (including Thursday 10PM and midnight screenings) is $400K below […]

Suddenly those ABC sitcoms aren’t such sure things. ABC:  For the third consecutive week, LAST MAN STANDING and MALIBU COUNTRY fell, to 1.4 and 1.3 respectively.  That’s particularly worrisome for Malibu, which dropped a big 0.4.  Both shows are still probably fine as long as they hold at their current levels (they continued to hold […]

Weekend #46 is on pace to exceed the multi-year average for this weekend by 17% — not as high as we forecast earlier this week but still very good.  The final Twilight film in the series is on pace to open with $135 million this weekend, below our forecast and a shade below the previous […]

  We may not always know for whom the bell tolls, but for low-rated network shows, today is the day it’s tolling.  ABC has seen and raised CBS’s cancellation of Partners this morning by executing both 666 PARK AVENUE and LAST RESORT.  The two shows had disastrous ratings (matching 1.2s for their last airings), and […]

  CBS has canceled PARTNERS, and pulled it from the Monday night schedule.  The show, created by the Will & Grace team of Max Mutchnick and David Kohan, never got a grip on much viewership, and was by far the lowest-rated show in the network’s crucial Monday line-up of sitcoms, so this isn’t much of […]

CBS dominates, without a singing competition to be seen. CBS:  THE BIG BANG THEORY, 2 1/2 MEN and PERSON OF INTEREST all had their best outings of the season.  Big Bang was particularly impressive, up 0.4 to a huge 5.5 that almost equaled the 4 other networks combined.  Men was up just a tick to […]