NOTE TO READERS:  For the remainder of this week (4/17-19), our afternoon cable posts, which usually go up around 1:30PM PDT, will likely be posted around 5PM PDT, with text to follow.   NETWORK FINALS:  There were no changes from the preliminary Sunday ratings.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings […]

> UPDATE: The magic number for mid-week box office (Monday-Tuesday combined) is 20% of the opening weekend.  Based on Monday-Tuesday’s numbers, Rio came very close to hitting this number and is poised to see an upgrade of its ShowbuzzDaily Domestic Gross estimate this weekend. During its first Monday-Tuesday in release (April 18-19), Rio was in […]

  Football aside, network TV’s biggest hit is THE MASKED SINGER. 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 […]

> STAR WARS EPISODE I:  THE PHANTOM MENACE 3D, to give it its fully identifying title, has the distinction of being the most successful movie ever made that is generally agreed to be terrible.  Over $900M in tickets have been sold for Phantom Menace since its opening in 1999 (that number will go over $1B […]

Fast affiliate-based nationals for Sunday 4.25.2021 will not be available at the normal time (Monday 8am PT / 11am ET). The revised delivery time is approximately 11am PT / 2pm ET. Audiences for major events that are live to all time zones (such as Super Bowl, AFC or NFC Championship, Olympics, Oscars, Grammys and Golden […]

Here are the official Fall 2016 prime time schedules for NBC and FOX.  New shows in italics.  A separate midseason grid will follow at a later date. Look for ShowBuzzDaily instant analysis of FOX’s schedule later today.  In the meantime, enjoy the NBC schedule analysis. ###

  30 MINUTES OR LESS – Watch It At Home:  Doesn’t Deliver   The frustration of 30 MINUTES OR LESS is that of all the R-rated comedies this summer, it was the one with the most original premise and promising credentials:  direction by Ruben Fleischer, the man behind the surprisingly smart and funny hit Zombieland, […]

> Based on actual box office numbers Friday and Saturday (and studio projections for Sunday), Hop is now looking like a $38 million weekend, far exceeding the ShowbuzzDaily forecast.  Source Code now exactly matches the forecast, while ultra-low-cost Insidious will beat its forecast by $3 million.  Last July, Despicable Me grossed $251 million domestically, $289 million overseas and $126 […]