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THE SKED PILOT REVIEW: “The Client List”

Posted April 9, 2012 by Mitch Salem

>THE CLIENT LIST: Sundays 10PM on Lifetime – If Nothing Else Is On… It’s the very prosaic, unsexy ordinariness of THE CLIENT LIST that makes it somewhat revolutionary. For HBO or Showtime to air salacious shows about the lives of hookers (as they have, with Hung and Secret Diary of a Call Girl) is just […]

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UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Saturday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 3.2.2019

Posted March 5, 2019 by Mitch Metcalf

        NETWORK FINALS:  ABC’s NBA game adjusted to 1.1.  In addition, the 2 hours of DATELINE dropped to 0.4/0.5 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  ESPN’s UFC PRELIMS tied for the lead on Saturday cable with 0.63, and the network’s  COLLEGE […]

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SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings 1.27-28.2018

Posted January 30, 2018 by Mitch Metcalf

Here are the weekend sports ratings for Saturday and Sunday January 27-28, 2018.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 300K P2+).  Programs are grouped by sport and ranked within each sport by P2+ audience size. For comparison, here is the same chart for the same weekend last year, January 28-29, […]

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SHOWBUZZDAILY TUESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 5.29.2018

Posted May 30, 2018 by Mitch Metcalf

  AMERICA’S GOT TALENT came roaring back. 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 follow […]

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Top Cable Shows of the Week — Final Update

Posted April 2, 2013 by Mitch Metcalf

For broadcasters: The end of the world as you know it?  Walking Dead not only tops the cable ratings chart, but also beat everything else on TV — by far.  The highest-rated program in prime time last week on broadcast television with adults 18-49 was the the second game of the NCAA double-header Sunday that spilled into […]

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UPDATED: THE SKED CABLE/NETWORK SUNDAY SCORECARD – 6/8/14

Posted June 10, 2014 by Mitch Salem

NETWORK UPDATE:  The time-zone adjusted rating for Game 2 of the NBA FINALS climbed to 6.0.  As expected, the primetime JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE and NBA COUNTDOWN dropped heavily, from 2.2/2.3 to 1.1/1.3. SATURDAY CABLE:  Starz’s POWER needed two runs, at 9 and 10PM, to accumulate a passable 0.3 rating in 18-49s (9PM was 0.15, 10PM […]

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SHOWBUZZDAILY TUESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 6.14.2016

Posted June 15, 2016 by Mitch Metcalf

  Fair results for some ABC premieres. 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 follow […]

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UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Saturday Cable Originals & Network Update: 12.19.2015

Posted December 22, 2015 by Mitch Metcalf

  NETWORK UPDATE:  ABC’s DEMOCRATIC DEBATE rose 0.2 in final numbers, although it was still nowhere near its Republican counterparts, and FOX’s UFC LIVE climbed by the same amount.  Once SATURDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL was removed from CBS’s NY and Dallas ratings, the network plunged by 0.4/0.5/0.6 respectively over primetime’s 3 hours.  Broadcast Official Nationals Program […]

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