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The Horse Race: Three Days into the New Season

Posted September 27, 2012 by Mitch Metcalf

With three nights of official national ratings counted, CBS is in front with a 2.99 Adult 18-49 rating, down a dizzying 30% from the first three nights last fall (when CBS was a towering #1 at a 4.28 rating).  Remember, The Eye pulled a 10.7 rating for the season premiere of Two and a Half Men […]

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THE SKED PREMIERE REVIEW: “The Finder”

Posted January 13, 2012 by Mitch Salem

> THE FINDER – Thursdays 9PM on FOX – If Nothing Else Is On… THE FINDER has already had a pilot of sorts, which aired last season as an episode of BONES.  While the series is based on the character Walter Sherman from the “Locator” novels by Richard Greener, technically it’s presented as a jerry-rigged […]

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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 25 Monday Cable Originals (& Network Update): 4.13.2015

Posted April 14, 2015 by Mitch Metcalf

  NETWORK UPDATE:  With New York’s baseball game removed from the CW ratings, both THE ORIGINALS and JANE THE VIRGIN fell 0.2 to twin 0.4s.  On NBC, THE VOICE gained 0.1 and THE NIGHT SHIFT fell by the same amount.  In addition, DANCING WITH THE STARS rose 0.1.  Ratings in key demos for the Top […]

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BEHIND THE FRIDAY BOXOFFICE: 4/26/13

Posted April 27, 2013 by Mitch Salem

  OPENINGS:  PAIN & GAIN (Paramount) is a “relationship” movie, not in the sense of the relationships between the movie’s characters (oh God, no), but the relationship between the studio and its director, Michael Bay.  This was a passion project for Bay, and Paramount agreed to let him make it–and oh, by the way, also […]

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SHOWBUZZDAILY THURSDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 7.23.2015

Posted July 24, 2015 by Mitch Metcalf

WAYWARD PINES exited on a high. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary 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 and comparisons follow the […]

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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 11/15/15

Posted November 15, 2015 by Mitch Salem

  OPENINGS:  LOVE THE COOPERS (CBS/Lionsgate) was the best of a bad bunch, launching with $8.4M.  That’s 30% less than the $12.5M start of 2005’s The Family Stone, but the studio can take some solace from the fact that Stone (which opened closer to Christmas) earned a 5x multiple from its opening weekend.  If Coopers […]

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UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Sunday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 3.21.2021 Including TRUtv

Posted March 23, 2021 by Mitch Metcalf

      NOTE: Sunday ratings for TRU are not available at this time. The cable charts below will be updated when possible. The charts have been updated with TRU programs.     NETWORK FINALS:  There were significant adjustments (to the next tenth) for 60 MINUTES, CHERRIES WILD and BLESS THE HARTS.        […]

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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 10.13.2024

Posted October 13, 2024 by Mitch Salem

OPENINGS:  TERRIFIER 3 (Cineverse) broke through to a mainstream audience with an $18.3M weekend, which is more than the entire $10.6M run of 2022’s Terrifier 2 (that one’s highest weekend was $1.9M).  The new entry in the unrated, ultra-violent slasher series accomplished this with not just a low production budget, but reportedly a miniscule amount […]

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