OPENINGS:  The SAUSAGE PARTY (Annapurna/Columbia/Sony) audience was somewhat frontloaded, with a 16% Saturday decline, but the weekend total of $33.6M was still outstanding, the best starring debut for Seth Rogen since the original Neighbors, and higher than the $33M 5-day opening for This Is The End (which opened on a Wednesday).  There’s certainly nothing […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  BACHELOR IN PARADISE ticked up to 0.55, and THE ROOKIE: FEDS was down 0.07 to 0.23. CBS:  FBI slipped 0.02 to 0.55, FBI: INTERNATIONAL dropped 0.06 to 0.40, and FBI: MOST WANTED was down 0.07 to 0.38. NBC:  THE VOICE fell a tenth to 0.60, LA BREA lost 0.06 to 0.38, […]

  It won’t be #1 for the full weekend, but the story on Saturday was DJANGO UNCHAINED (Weinstein/Sony), which–according to preliminary numbers at Deadline, at least–had its second straight day of splendid growth (+17%) and is challenging THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY (Warners/MGM) for the day’s lead with $11.2M.  It appears as though Django will […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  BIG BROTHER gained 0.1 in final numbers, while SHADES OF BLUE and the rerun of TKO: TOTAL KNOCK-OUT lost the same.          Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  SHARK WEEK is the happiest week of the year for Discovery, and it was […]

    The calendar may say it’s too early for the dog days of summer, but they’ve arrived at CBS.   CBS:  DOGS IN THE CITY fell sharply from its low debut to an awful 0.9, below most of the reruns on NBC and ABC.  After that, procedural reruns were at 1.2-1.3. FOX:  The night’s […]

> Deadline has preliminary figures for Thursday’s boxoffice, and they appear to be fairly steady with Wednesday, consistent with last year’s pattern but below 2010’s totals.  MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – GHOST PROTOCOL (Paramount) remains at the head of the pack with $6.2M, down about 10%.  This compares with $7.1M for last year’s #1 on the Thursday […]

      NETWORK FINALS:  FRESH OFF THE BOAT and THE REAL O’NEALS each lost 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  The Presidential Address took up the top slots on Tuesday cable, with Fox News peaking during the 9PM hour at 1.68 in […]

  Maybe airing the Emmys on a Monday wasn’t such a great idea. NBC:  THE EMMY AWARDS, airing on a weeknight for the first time in decades, fell 0.5 from last year in preliminary numbers to 3.8.  (It’s currently down 1.1 from last year’s final numbers, but this year’s show should go up as well […]