For the studios, a Good Friday that generally lived up to its name. OPENINGS:  GI JOE: RETALIATION (Paramount/MGM) had a very solid second day, rising 48% for a $15.5M Friday.  That’s still only 2/3 of the $22.2M that its predecessor GIJoe: The Rise of Cobra did on its opening day (despite 3D ticket premiums […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  CBS wasn’t hurt as much by the football adjustments as it might have been:  THE BIG BANG THEORY lost 0.1 to 3.9, MOM dropped 0.2 to 2.6 (still up 0.6 from last week), 2 1/2 MEN lost 0.2 to 2.3 (still up 0.4), THE MCCARTHYS also fell 0.2 to 1.8 (still up […]

Not a good night for grand dames.   NBC:  AMERICA’S GOT TALENT got things off to a 3.4 start, by far the biggest broadcast rating of the night, and enough to singlehandedly give the night to NBC.  But LOVE IN THE WILD, despite host Jenny McCarthy, flopped down to a 1.6 afterward (off a big […]

WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD.   YEAR TO DATE BOX OFFICE. Looking at North American box office, 2015 to date is now +6% above last year and +10% above the average for this point the past four years ($2.333 billion).  Over the same period, Hollywood films have grossed almost $7.2 billion worldwide when we add overseas box office […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  The SUPER BOWL adjusted to 33.4, down 3.7 from 2017, while THIS IS US ended up at 9.3, up 3.2 from last year’s 24: LEGACY.  For those who care, the BOB’S BURGERS rerun gained 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  As expected, TAXI BROOKLYN dipped from the morning’s numbers by 0.1.  Still, no loss from its series premiere last week is a fairly positive result.  SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE gained 0.1, so it ended up holding even with last week.  The MODERN FAMILY rerun lost 0.1 WEDNESDAY CABLE:  With no […]

NBC could have used Game 6 of the NHL Stanley Cup Final on Wednesday rather than Monday.  The 2.0 rating the concluding game generated Monday would have doubled last night’s rating for the regular NBC Wednesday line-up (instead of bumping a much higher-rated America’s Got Talent out of its pattern Monday night).  In any case, […]

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 […]