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EARLY FRIDAY BOXOFFICE REPORT: A Decent Day For “Die Hard”

Posted February 16, 2013 by Mitch Salem

  As expected, the end of Valentine’s Day meant some slippage for SAFE HAVEN (Relativity), and allowed A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD (20th) to take a narrow Friday lead, which it will probably hold for the rest of the holiday weekend.  But according to preliminary numbers at Deadline, the race is surprisingly close. Die […]

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THE SKED @ CABLE REVIEW: “Falling Skies”

Posted June 20, 2011 by Mitch Salem

> FALLING SKIES – Sundays 10PM on TNT – If Nothing Else Is On… Or:  how is FALLING SKIES not Terra Nova?  I’ve raved about FOX’s Fall dinosaur spectacle, and here’s another Steven Spielberg special-effects extravaganza, centered around a family trying to hold onto its identity and its life in a hair-raising environment–so what’s the […]

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SHOWBUZZDAILY FRIDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 5.29.2015

Posted May 30, 2015 by Mitch Metcalf

  ABC:  On another slow early summer night, the season premiere of WHAT WOULD YOU DO? was on top with 1.2, down 0.1 from last season’s debut.  It was bracketed by an 0.9 SHARK TANK rerun and a steady 1.0 for 20/20. CW:  The new episode of WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY was up 0.2 […]

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Weekly Broadcast Ratings and Year to Date

Posted February 25, 2013 by Mitch Metcalf

THE WEEK.  For the recently completed week ending Sunday (February 18-24, 2013), ABC will claim a rare victory with a preliminary 3.42 adult 18-49 rating in prime time, its best weekly showing of the year by far (thanks, of course, to The Oscars).  And even better for ABC, this is better than last year’s Oscar week (3.14 […]

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THE SKED’S BUSTED PILOT THEATRE: “17th Precinct”

Posted June 28, 2011 by Mitch Salem

> See A Word About Busted Pilots Remember the Sideways universe in the last season of Lost?  (I feel your pain; bear with me.)  In particular, remember the storyline where Sawyer and Miles were tough LA detectives, living out their version of a 1970s cop show?  Well, for Battlestar Galactica fans, there was almost a […]

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THE SKED @ PALEYFEST 2013: “Community”

Posted March 6, 2013 by Mitch Salem

  PaleyFest tried something a little different tonight as part of a rambunctious celebration of COMMUNITY, replacing the usual screening with a live table read that featured most of the regular cast, aside from Donald Glover and–of course–Chevy Chase (Fred Willard subbed for Chase).  Slightly disappointingly, the episode read was last month’s series premiere, so […]

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A MIDSUMMER STUDIO’S REPORT CARD: Paramount

Posted July 6, 2011 by Mitch Salem

>    With a summer movie season bracketed by the first weekend in May on one end, and Labor Day on the other, we’ve reached the midpoint of 2011’s array of blockbusters, and for the next week, here at SHOWBUZZDAILY, we’ll be providing our judgments on how the studios are doing.  US Grosses are as […]

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SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings 2.24-25.2018

Posted February 27, 2018 by Mitch Metcalf

Here are the weekend sports ratings for Saturday and Sunday February 24-25, 2018.  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, February 25-26, […]

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