WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD.   YEAR TO DATE BOX OFFICE. Looking at North American box office, 2015 to date is still +8% above last year and now +4% above the average for this point the past four years ($5.828 billion).  Over the same period, Hollywood films have grossed $15.7 billion worldwide when we add overseas box office […]

Not quite as exciting as a live freeway police pursuit but still very compelling and much more relevant, the coverage of the reaction to the capture of the remaining Boston Marathon Bombing suspect brought viewers to the normally tough to program Friday evening.  Collectively, the broadcast networks earned a 7.1 rating with adults 18-49 in […]

> Let’s take a look at just how remarkably THE HELP is performing so far.   The most obvious points of comparison are the literary-sourced, female-skewing hits of the last 2 Augusts:  Julie & Julia in 2009, and last year’s Eat Pray Love.  Julia had a $20M opening that led to a $94M domestic gross; Eat […]

  NBC:  DATELINE was the highest rated show of the night, steady at 1.1. ABC:  WHAT WOULD YOU DO gained 0.2 to 1.0, and 20/20 was up 0.1 to 0.9, both in line with the 0.9 SHARK TANK rerun that began the night. CW:  MASTERS OF ILLUSION edged up 0.1 to 0.3, the same result […]

  May Sweeps continued to excite hardly anyone. ABC:  The network aired its regular line-up for the first time in a month, and it did no good for ONCE UPON A TIME, which slipped 0.1 from last week and fell to a series low 2.0.  REVENGE was up 0.2 from an Easter airing when ratings […]

      Analysis to follow.       Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   Top 50 Original Cable Telecasts with Demographic Detail Top 150 Original Cable Telecasts To search for a show: type Ctrl-F and type your show title in the search box. Top 150 Original Cable Telecasts: Thursday May 13, 2021 P18-49 P2+ Rank […]

>  See A Word About Busted Pilots Peter Tolan, who with Denis Leary created Rescue Me, knows something about the comedy that emerges when when men try to assert their masculinity in the most idiotic ways.  So you can understand why FOX developed COUNCIL OF DADS, which was meant to bring that kind of tone […]

WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD.     YEAR TO DATE BOX OFFICE. Looking at North American box office, 2015 to date is still +6% above last year and now +2% above the average for this point the past four years ($6.510 billion).  Over the same period, Hollywood films have grossed almost $17.3 billion worldwide when we add overseas box […]