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Broadcast News & Late Night Series 5.16-5.22.2022

Posted May 24, 2022 by Mitch Metcalf

Broadcast news and late night series ratings available below for this week and the same week last year. You can also search for other available weeks with the link at the bottom of this post. Week 21: May 16-22, 2022 Broadcast News: Current Week Broadcast News: Same Week Last Year   Broadcast Late Night: Current […]

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UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Saturday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 3.16.2019

Posted March 19, 2019 by Mitch Metcalf

          NETWORK FINALS:  ABC’s NBA game adjusted up 0.3 to 0.7, and FOX’s BIG EAST game adjusted down 0.2 to 0.2.  In addition, ONE NIGHT FOR ONE DROP, RANSOM and the SNL rerun all lost 0.1 in final numbers.        Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE […]

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EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “Rio 2″” Wins Battle of Sequels

Posted April 11, 2014 by Mitch Salem

  RIO 2 (20th) has leaped out to a Friday lead, according to preliminary numbers at Deadline, one that it should be able to sustain for the weekend.  The Rio sequel has $11.5M on Friday, about 10% ahead of the first Rio‘s $10.3M opening day.  That film made $39.2M for the weekend, and Rio 2 […]

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THE SKED MIDSEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Community”

Posted March 4, 2012 by Mitch Salem

> COMMUNITY returns to the NBC schedule at 8PM on Thursday, March 15. WHERE WE WERE:  Greendale Community College, of course!  Where the school mascot is a Human Being and the Dean (Jim Rash) is to be seen in outfits intended for any and all genders and species, a place of air conditioning repair secret-police […]

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PREMIERING TONIGHT: SHOWBUZZDAILY Pilot Review – “Scorpion”

Posted September 22, 2014 by Mitch Salem

  SCORPION:  Monday 9PM on CBS starting – Worth A Look PLAYERS:  The real-life hacker Walter O’Brien, on whose adventures Scorpion is (very loosely) based–and who is also an Executive Producer on the show.  Series creator Nick Santora, who created Breakout Kings and was a writer/producer on Prison Break.  Pilot director Justin Lin.  An ensemble […]

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THE SKED NETWORK SCORECARD – 12/27/13

Posted December 28, 2013 by Mitch Salem

  RIP, Nikita. CW:  Nobody cared very much about NIKITA while it aired, and its series finale, virtually buried on a holiday week Friday (Univision topped all the English-language networks last night), got just as little attention.  It held its 0.2 from last week, the same rating as the CARRIE DIARIES rerun that preceded it. […]

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THE SKED: “House” For Sale

Posted February 8, 2012 by Mitch Salem

> Today FOX and the producers of HOUSE jointly announced that this 8th season will be its last.  There’s nothing particularly shocking about this–ratings were down significantly from last year, and the show is expensive to produce and would likely have gotten more so (both Hugh Laurie and creator David Shore were at the end […]

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THE SKED’S PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “Homeland”

Posted October 10, 2011 by Mitch Salem

> A lot can happen between the creation of a TV pilot in the spring and production of episodes for the regular season:  a writing/producing team is hired, audience focus groups weigh in, networks and studios (which may have had their own turnover in the off-season) give plenty of notes, both helpful and otherwise, and […]

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