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OSCARLAND: Why and Why Not? – Best Picture

Posted March 1, 2014 by Mitch Salem

  We’ve taken a tour through Best Actress and Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress, and Best Director, and that leaves one last major gold statue to be handed out.  As we have all along, we will assume that every nominee deserves to be there on merit, and we’ll pass on the […]

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Broadcast News & Late Night Series 4.24-4.30.2023

Posted May 2, 2023 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 18: April 24-30, 2023 Broadcast News: Current Week Broadcast News: Same Week Last Year   Broadcast Late Night: Current […]

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SHOWBUZZDAILY EARLY WEEKEND BOXOFFICE – 3/10/12

Posted March 11, 2012 by Mitch Salem

> It’s too little to make any meaningful difference for JOHN CARTER (Disney), but according to Deadline, the giant-budgeted spectacle didn’t have a bad Saturday.  Preliminary numbers have Carter rising by around 30% over its Friday total, which could mean a weekend over $30M.  A nice weekend multiple, though, still won’t touch the mountain of […]

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Behind the Friday Box Office – 3/14/14

Posted March 15, 2014 by Mitch Salem

  OPENINGS:  NEED FOR SPEED (DreamWorks/Disney) won Friday with $6.6M (which includes $1.1M from Thursday night), but it’s destined to come in 2d or even 3rd for the weekend, probably under $20M.  At a $175M cost (including worldwide marketing), $50M in the US will barely make a dent, meaning that the movie will need to […]

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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Saturday 5.27.2023 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED

Posted May 31, 2023 by Mitch Metcalf

  BROADCAST FINALS:  ABC’s NHL PLAYOFFS game was at 0.49.  FOX’s MLB game was at 0.31.   Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  TNT’s NBA PLAYOFFS game was at 2.96.  On ESPN, FORMULA 1 was at 0.30, and COLLEGE SOFTBALL was at 0.22/0.15/0.14/0.12.  Fox Sports 1’s MLB game was at 0.11.  On […]

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THE SKED’S FRIDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 3/16/12

Posted March 17, 2012 by Mitch Salem

> Basketball. CBS:  On a night when the other networks mostly didn’t choose to compete, some enormous upsets in the NCAA TOURNAMENT gave CBS a slam-dunk victory for the night with a (preliminary) 2.2, way higher than last year’s Day 2. CW:  NIKITA returned to the schedule after several weeks of reruns (that show has […]

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SHOWBUZZDAILY MONDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 6.24.2019

Posted June 25, 2019 by Mitch Salem

  Some drops from last week’s premieres. 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 […]

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Weekend Box Office Predictions 8.19-21.2016

Posted August 17, 2016 by Mitch Metcalf

Weekend #34 of 2016 forecasts for films opening wide and major returning films: NEW FILMS THIS WEEKEND August 19-21, 2016 Critics Positive ($ millions) Opening Weekend Forecast Domestic Total Projection Overseas Total Projection Worldwide Total Projection Kubo and the Two Strings Focus PG 90% 15.7 44 56 100 War Dogs WB R 63% 15.2 40 […]

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