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SHOWBUZZDAILY FRIDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 3.27.2015

Posted March 28, 2015 by Mitch Metcalf

  HART OF DIXIE departed without much notice. 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 […]

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EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “Home” Is Where the Money Is; “Get Hard” Also Strong

Posted March 28, 2015 by Mitch Salem

  HOME (DreamWorks Animation/20th) should soothe the embattled studio and its investors a bit.  According to preliminary numbers at Deadline, Home earned $15M on Friday, almost double the $8M start for DWA’s Mr. Peabody and Sherman, and almost in a league with the $18.8M first day for How To Train Your Dragon 2.  That should […]

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SKEDBALL: March Madness Ratings as Sweet 16 Begins

Posted March 27, 2015 by Mitch Metcalf

Chart updated with persons 2+ audiences for the four games played Thursday, March 26, 2015 (Day 1 of 2 in Sweet 16 Round): Telecast 53: CBS 7 pm #3-Notre Dame 81 #7-Wichita State 70 (ND up 33-30 at half) Telecast 54: CBS 9:49 pm #1-Kentucky 78 #5-West Virginia 39 (Kentucky up 44-18 at half) Telecast […]

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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 25 Thursday Cable Originals (& Network Update): 3.26.2015

Posted March 27, 2015 by Mitch Metcalf

  NETWORK UPDATE:  The NCAA TOURNAMENT games adjusted slightly down, to 1.9/2.7.  That put them respectively 0.1 below and 0.1 above last year’s Thursday Round of 16 games.    (See Mitch Metcalf’s special SKEDBALL Report on Round of 16 ratings on broadcast and cable.)  Elsewhere, AMERICAN CRIME gained 0.1, and the VAMPIRE DIARIES rerun lost 0.1. […]

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SHOWBUZZDAILY THURSDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 3.26.2015

Posted March 27, 2015 by Mitch Metcalf

  The Round of 16 put the NCAA TOURNAMENT into gear. 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 […]

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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 25 Wednesday Cable Originals (& Network Update): 3.25.2015

Posted March 26, 2015 by Mitch Metcalf

  NETWORK UPDATE:  There were 0.1 increases aplenty for CBS and ABC, with bumps for SURVIVOR, CRIMINAL MINDS, THE MIDDLE, THE GOLDBERGS and MODERN FAMILY–although in ABC’s case, that didn’t make up for their losses from their last airings.  Ratings in key demos for the Top 25 original cable telecasts (plus a few other lower-rated […]

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SHOWBUZZDAILY WEDNESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 3.25.2015

Posted March 26, 2015 by Mitch Metcalf

  It was a long way down for FOX’s Wednesday without EMPIRE. 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). […]

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Weekend Box Office Predictions 3.27-29.2015

Posted March 25, 2015 by Mitch Metcalf

Weekend #13 of 2015 is looking like $123 million for the top 12 films this weekend, slightly below the comparable weekends the past few years. Opening at around 3,150 theaters Friday (above the 2,886 average theater count for opening weekends the last two years), Get Hard from Warner Brothers should average $9,200 per theater for the three-day weekend (for […]

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