The Independence Day holiday will cause delays for national U.S. television ratings (live+same day cable and broadcast) for several days. This is how the cable and broadcast nationals should roll out the next week or so. We will update this schedule if anything changes.  (All times Pacific.) Friday 7/1 nationals available Tuesday 7/5 by 2 […]

>Green Lantern stumbled on Saturday and the opening weekend now looks like $52.7 million.  Overall, the weekend is down 24% from last year.    The ShowbuzzDaily Domestic Final estimates now show that Green Lantern will should finish its domestic run with $146 million, while Mr Popper’s Penguins is headed for $64 million.  Super 8 has […]

  OPENINGS:  Melissa McCarthy is now a genuine Hollywood player with the enormous debut of IDENTITY THIEF (Universal), beating all pre-release estimates with $36.6M.  (Take that, Rex Reed!)  Apart from Universal, the happiest studio in town is Fox, which has the McCarthy/Sandra Bullock vehicle The Heat coming up in the thick of summer movie season […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  BIG BROTHER gained 0.1 in final numbers, while the rerun of THE GOLDBERGS lost the same.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  VH1’s BLACK INK CREW led Wednesday cable, up 0.03 to 0.54, and MARTHA & SNOOP’S POTLUCK DINNER was at […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  THE BIG BANG THEORY gained 0.2 in adjusted numbers, although at 3.7, that still left it far behind last year’s 4.9 season finale.  Elsewhere, GREY’S ANATOMY lost 0.1. CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  With no NBA game scheduled, Spike’s LIP SYNC BATTLE took a share of the Thursday cable lead, up 0.07 from last week […]

  The NCAA Tournament is already helping CBS. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary live+same day key advertiser demographics (adult 18-34, 18-49 and 25-54 ratings), audience skews (women 18-49, men 18-49 and adults 50+ shares) and total viewership (thousands of people over the age of 2). Ratings analysis […]

>Now 12 full weeks into 2012, year-to-date domestic box office is running 26% ahead of last year’s worrisome pace, and the year-to-date total is now fully 15% ahead of the comparable period’s average for the last several years.  The Hunger Games lived up to the hype and played like an early summer tentpole in March. […]

Weekend #36 of 2014 is looking like $54 million for the top 12 films this weekend, down 13% from the norm for this weekend, which is usually the weakest weekend of the year.  In the last two years, this weekend has produced Riddick, The Words and The Cold Light of Day.  But those look like […]