By CBS standards, the network is making a large number of moves with its 2013-14 schedule.  Changes are in store for Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday–including finally pulling the trigger on a 4-sitcom Thursday.  Let’s run through it. MONDAY 8PM:          HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER 8:30PM:     WE ARE MEN 9PM:          2 BROKE GIRLS 9:30PM:     […]

  BROADCAST FINALS:  Due to the combination of holidays, football and specials, the English-language networks hadn’t aired their regular Sunday line-ups in several months, so we won’t be including weekly comparisons here. ABC:  After AMERICA’S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS at 0.43, the season premiere of AMERICAN IDOL was at 0.61, down 0.32 from the February 2022 […]

      NETWORK FINALS:  ABC’s SUPER TUESDAY coverage gained 0.1 in final numbers, a bump the network probably would have preferred to receive on THE MUPPETS or AGENT CARTER (neither of which  budged from morning numbers).  NEW GIRL rose 0.1, and the WORLD DOG AWARDS lost the same.         Broadcast Official […]

NETWORK UPDATE:  ABC’s COLLEGE FOOTBALL adjusted up 0.1 in final numbers to 1.1, and FOX’s game remained at 0.8.  On the rerun front, CBS’s were respectively up and down 0.1, and THE VOICE on NBC lost 0.1. Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  As always with fall Saturdays, cable was dominated by […]

> It takes about an hour, but Nicholas McCarthy’s THE PACT, which premiered in the Park City At Midnight section at Sundance, eventually turns out to have a neat twist up its sleeve, one that switches the movie from haunted house horror to an entirely different subgenre of thriller.  And after that, a solid reel […]

Weekend #28 of 2012 looks fairly soft: $159 million for the top 12 films, down 37% from last year’s comparable weekend (the opening of the last Harry Potter — talk about a high bar) and down 23% from the four-year average for the weekend. Opening at around 3,800 theaters, Ice Age: Continental Drift from 20th Century […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  The news special PUTIN’S WAR was at 0.24, then 20/20 fell 0.31 to 0.16. CBS:  UNDERCOVER BOSS gained 0.02 to 0.41, MAGNUM PI dropped 0.08 to 0.35, and BLUE BLOODS was down 0.04 to 0.43. NBC:  THE BLACKLIST rose 0.03 to 0.31, and DATELINE was up 0.06 to 0.37. FOX:  WWE […]

  WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD.  Here is an updated look at the 2019 film slates by studio. BOX OFFICE. Looking at North American box office, 2019 is still -5% below last year’s comparable span and still +1% above this point the past four years ($8.203 billion).  Over the same period, Hollywood films have grossed over $21.9 […]