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UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Sunday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 6.9.2019

Posted June 11, 2019 by Mitch Metcalf

        NETWORK FINALS:  NBC’s STANLEY CUP FINALS game adjusted up by 0.1.  In addition, the special DEAL OR NO DEAL fell 0.2 in final numbers.           Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  HBO’s BIG LITTLE LIES returned at 0.39.  That show had an unusually sharp […]

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UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Sunday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 5.29.2016

Posted June 1, 2016 by Mitch Metcalf

        NETWORK FINALS:  There were no changes from the preliminary Sunday numbers.       Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Even mighty HBO felt the drain of Memorial Day weekend, as GAME OF THRONES sank by 0.71 to 3.25.  The rest of the line-up fared better, with […]

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THE SKED NETWORK SCORECARD – 11/3/13

Posted November 4, 2013 by Mitch Salem

  Did moving The Good Wife and Revenge away from one another for a night help both shows? CBS:  The afternoon NFL overrun pushed the night’s schedule by an entire hour in most of the country, kicking The Mentalist out of primetime.  The effect was interesting, not because of the giant push football gave 60 […]

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The Sked: MONDAY RATINGS December 19

Posted December 20, 2011 by Mitch Metcalf

>CBS Monday hung on to first place last night (2.2 Adult 18-49 rating from 8-11 pm) with an all-repeat schedule.  On this night last year (Monday, December 20, 2010), CBS averaged a 1.9 rating, also with repeats of its regular schedule: How I Met Your Mother (2.0), Rules of Engagement (1.9), Two and a Half […]

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THE SKED: CW FALL SCHEDULE AND INSTANT ANALYSIS

Posted May 17, 2012 by Mitch Salem

  CW needed to rip up its schedule and start over, and it mostly has.     Let’s take a look night-by-night. MONDAY:  The network is reuniting two of its cornerstone soaps for the Fall, with 90210 as the lead-in for the final 11-episode season of GOSSIP GIRL.  Since CW isn’t planning to begin its […]

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SHOWBUZZDAILY SUNDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 3.17.2019

Posted March 18, 2019 by Mitch Metcalf

  The NCAA Tournament is already helping CBS. 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 […]

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THE SKED’S Fall TV Ratings Predictions: Full Week Network Summary

Posted May 24, 2013 by Mitch Salem

  All this week, we’ve been giving you our predicted fall network ratings for Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday.  Let’s wind up our week of forecasts with an overview of how the fall is likely to go for each of the networks in summary.  We don’t see any precipitous drops, although we also […]

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THE SKED: “Boss” Not the Boss of Cable

Posted October 24, 2011 by Mitch Salem

> It’s lucky that BOSS is a bid for prestige by Starz, because it’s certainly not doing much on the ratings front.  The initial airing on Friday had a total of 659,000 viewers, which wouldn’t even be much of a number if it referred only to 18-49 year olds–and in this case, given the show’s […]

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