> Sony jump-started the release of THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO last night with early runs starting at 7PM at its slightly less than 3000 theatres.  Early reports are that it pulled in $1.6M for those showings.  There aren’t a lot of R-rated Tuesday night “preview” comparisons to draw on (OK, there are none), […]

  The return of THE ORVILLE. 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 2). Ratings analysis and comparisons […]

The 44th weekend of the year is looking like $114 million for the top 12 films, better than last weekend but 4-8% below comparable weekends the past few years.   Opening at over 3,350 theaters Friday (slightly above the 2,886 average theater count for opening weekends the last two years), Ender’s Game from Lionsgate/Summit should average $8,600 per […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  CMA FEST was at 0.51, down from 0.8 for its 2019 airing. CBS:  BIG BROTHER gained 0.04 to 0.79, THE CHALLENGE lost 0.04 to 0.38, and a SWAT rerun was at 0.17. NBC:  Reruns at 0.26/0.34/0.37. FOX:  MASTERCHEF dropped 0.06 to 0.36, and SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE was down […]

> The holiday celebrations at the studios may have been a bit premature.   Traditionally, the Tuesday after Christmas sees a 10-20% drop from Monday, and that number becomes the template for the rest of the holiday period.  But yesterday, aside from the films aimed straight at the family crowd, the drops were much worse. MISSION: […]

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday November 9 and Sunday November 10, 2013. (The 56 markets out of 210 total cover about 70% of the US television population.)   College Football Week 11: Top National Games on Saturday 6.9 rating 8:00 CBS #13-LSU at #1-Alabama […]

  OPENINGS:  With little else new around, DRAGON BALL SUPER: SUPER HERO (Crunchyroll/Sony) seized the weekend with $20.1M, a bit lower than the studio’s Dragon Slayer: Mugen Train, which opened with $21.2M at about half the number of theaters.  Dragon Ball, like most anime titles, was heavily skewed to the M18-34 audience, and it may […]

>ABC premiered the “comedy” Work It, and America did not turn out for it.  CBS went back to basics and brought back its regular Tuesday schedule (all in originals), winning the night unlike the same night last year, when it let Paula Abdul mess up its powerhouse Tuesday schedule.  NBC also went with originals of […]