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UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Saturday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 11.17.2018

Posted November 20, 2018 by Mitch Metcalf

        NETWORK FINALS:  FOX’s COLLEGE FOOTBALL game adjusted to 0.7.           Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Hallmark’s original movie CHRISTMAS AT GRACELAND led Saturday cable at 0.66.  Fox Sports 1’s afternoon COLLEGE FOOTBALL game narrowly beat ESPN’s evening game, 0.64 vs. 0.63, with other […]

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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Thursday 12.30.2021 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED

Posted January 3, 2022 by Mitch Metcalf

  BROADCAST FINALS:  Another night of reruns, with these results:  ABC 0.14-0.33, CBS 0.22-0.41, NBC 0.24-0.27, FOX 0.38/0.17, CW 0.10.   Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  ESPN’s COLLEGE FOOTBALL bowl games owned the night, led by the primetime PEACH BOWL at 1.80 and other games at 1.23/0.86/0.58.  Cable news was led […]

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EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “Marked Ones” Stumbles To Start 2014

Posted January 4, 2014 by Mitch Salem

  Based on preliminary numbers at Deadline, PARANORMAL ACTIVITY: THE MARKED ONES (Paramount) is likely to win Friday but lose the weekend.  Its $8.5M start positions it not only to come in below the wide releases of all the previous installments of the Paranormal franchise (which opened in October), but also below the recent January […]

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THE SKED FALL TRAILER REVIEW: ABC’s “The Neighbors”

Posted May 15, 2012 by Mitch Salem

    THE NEIGHBORS:  Wednesday 9:30PM on ABC   WHAT IT’S SAYING:  You know how Tessa on Suburgatory thinks her neighbors are all, like, weird?  These neighbors are weird.

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SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings

Posted September 30, 2013 by Mitch Metcalf

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday September 28 and Sunday September 29, 2013. (The 56 markets out of 210 total cover about 70% of the US television population.)   College Football Week 5 Top Games on Saturday 4.9 rating CBS 3:30 pm #6 LSU at #9 Georgia 4.1 […]

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SKEDBALL: Weekly Sports TV Ratings 12.30.2019-1.5.2020

Posted January 7, 2020 by Mitch Metcalf

Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday December 30, 2019 through Sunday January 5, 2020.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 300K P2+ live+same day).  Programs are grouped by sport and ranked within each sport by P2+ audience size. For comparison, here is the similar chart for the […]

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UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Saturday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 9.7.2019

Posted September 10, 2019 by Mitch Metcalf

        NETWORK FINALS:  ABC’s COLLEGE FOOTBALL game adjusted up to 2.7 in final numbers, and FOX’s game adjusted to 1.0.  In addition, the 9PM 48 HOURS gained 0.1.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  ESPN’s US OPEN coverage and its morning COLLEGE GAMEDAY show […]

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THURSDAY BOXOFFICE: “Man of Steel” Flies High… Sort Of

Posted June 14, 2013 by Mitch Salem

  In midnight shows last night, MAN OF STEEL (Warners) grossed $9M, a fine but hardly exceptional result for a mega-movie opening.  (Nowhere near the $18.7M for The Avengers, let alone the $30.7M for The Dark Knight Rises or the $22-43M earned by various Harry Potters and Twilights.)  However… earlier on Thursday, Man took in […]

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