>Five weeks into the 2011-12 season, FOX has taken the lead with a 3.0 Adult 18-49 rating in primetime.  Even though the World Series is at low levels compared to past Series, baseball still provides numbers each night higher than the network weekly average.  CBS is second with a 2.85 (CBS was hurt this week […]

> Well, through Sunday the first annual ShowBuzzDaily Summer Movie Draft is a flat-footed tie.  But Team Salem has one movie (the highly anticipated Super 8) opening before Team Metcalf’s next movie.  It should go back and forth throughout the summer.

> Click on SHOWBUZZDAILY‘s reviews from this year’s Sundance Film Festival, in alphabetical order: 2 DAYS IN NEW YORK (Magnolia) BACHELORETTE (No Distrib) BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD (Fox Searchlight) CELESTE AND JESSE FOREVER (Sony Pictures Classics) COMPLIANCE (Magnolia) FILLY BROWN (No Distrib) THE FIRST TIME (No Distrib) FOR A GOOD TIME, CALL… (Focus) GOATS […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  DANCING WITH THE STARS ticked up to 0.71, and a COUNTDOWN TO THE CMA AWARDS special was at 0.24. CBS:  THE NEIGHBORHOOD dipped 0.04 to 0.61, BOB HEARTS ABISHOLA lost 0.03 to 0.50, NCIS gained 0.05 to 0.64, and NCIS: HAWAII was down 0.03 to 0.45. NBC:  THE VOICE ticked down […]

  In terms of percentage, THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (Warners) should have about the same Weekend 3 drop that The Dark Knight did, but since it’s already below Dark Knight, the actual weekend number will be around 15% lower ($36M compared to $42M).  It’s now clear that Rises will–despite being a blockbuster hit to the […]

This weekend is normally dead.  On average, last weekend (the three days after Thanksgiving) is the 7th busiest of the year, while this weekend (the first in December) is normally ranked 50th in terms of volume.  Last year, there were no wide releases on the comparable weekend, and two years ago only one film was […]

  The NBA FINALS swallowed primetime once again. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary 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 […]

ESPN and MLB tinkered with the Homerun Derby format this year, adding a clock and moving to a bracket format.  It all worked, with the best persons 2+ audience for the ESPN special (7.1 million) since 2009 (8.25 million).  The younger demos (adults 18-49 and men 18-49) were only the best since 2013, but those […]