BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  JEOPARDY MASTERS gained 0.03 to 0.66, and AMERICAN IDOL was at 0.33. CBS:  THE NEIGHBORHOOD jumped 0.11 to 0.53, BOB HARTS ABISHOLA ticked up to 0.38, NCIS gained 0.04 to 0.44, and NCIS: HAWAII was up 0.04 to 0.34. NBC:  THE VOICE rose 0.05 to 0.55.  The season finale of THAT’S […]

  HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 2 (Columbia/Sony) is giving its beleaguered studio some good news, with a strong $12.8M opening day according to preliminary numbers at Deadline.  That’s better than the $11M start for the first Hotel, and although Transylvania 2 may be more frontloaded as a sequel and not match the original’s 73% Saturday bump, it […]

  OPENINGS:  After an October built on blockbusters that had been held off the market for more than a year, Thanksgiving weekend served as a reminder (to all except those paid to tout box office totals) that the theatrical release business continues to be far from recovered in the lingering Covid world.  Overall business was […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  THE LAST DAYS OF MICHAEL JACKSON and the YOUNG SHELDON rerun gained 0.1 in final numbers, but the LIFE IN PIECES rerun lost the same.           Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  It was TNT’s turn with an NBA PLAYOFFS game at […]

  OPENINGS:  Disney is the land where dreams come true, but not even their wizards could have imagined the scale of BLACK PANTHER (Marvel/Disney), which has crashed through all expectations–not just as a big-budget action film that exists almost completely in an African universe, but as a solo character superhero debut in general.  Current studio […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  NBC’s SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL adjusted to 5.6, down 0.2 from last week’s game.  There were also football-related adjustments at CBS, where 60 MINUTES rose 0.1, but WISDOM OF THE CROWD and MADAM SECRETARY lost the same.  In addition, ABC’s AMERICA’S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS gained 0.1.         […]

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  OPENINGS:  Although unquestionably huge, and sure to be enormously profitable against roughly $250M in production/marketing costs, DEADPOOL 2 (20th) opened on the low end of expectations, about 5% below the first Deadpool at $125M.  The sequel has the very reasonable explanation that its forebear had the advantage of a Sunday that was part of […]