2019-20 TV Season

NIELSENWAR: The NBC Fall 2019 Schedule & Analysis

Posted May 12, 2019 by Mitch Salem

  We’ve reached the broadcast networks’ Upfront Week… which used to be a lot more central to our television lives than it is now.  Ratings everywhere are down, and there’s no reason to think they’ve hit bottom, which has caused seismic changes in the ways networks make scheduling decisions.  Among other things, with revenues from […]

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THE SKED SEASON FINALE WATCH: “Terra Nova”

Posted December 20, 2011 by Mitch Salem

> Warning:  Spoilers Ahead Here, in the end, is all you needed to know about TERRA NOVA:  in its entire 2-hour season–and very possibly series–finale, dinosaurs were sighted for a grand total of about 2 minutes. Remember the original promos for Terra Nova, the ones that played on FOX for months while the show kept […]

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SHOWBUZZDAILY THURSDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 12.10.2020

Posted December 11, 2020 by Mitch Metcalf

  Only the return of football livened things up. 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 […]

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UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Sunday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 12.27.2020

Posted December 30, 2020 by Mitch Metcalf

        NETWORK FINALS:  SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL adjusted to 4.94, up from last week’s final 4.3.  There were meaningful upward adjustments (i.e., changing the tenth of the original rating) for THE MASKED DANCER, the rerun of NCIS: LA, the 8PM rerun of AMERICA’S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS and both reruns of SUPERMARKET SWEEP.   […]

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UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Wednesday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 4.11.2018

Posted April 12, 2018 by Mitch Metcalf

        NETWORK FINALS:  THE GOLDBERGS, SURVIVOR and EMPIRE gained 0.1 in final numbers, but both HARRY POTTER: A HISTORY OF MAGIC and the rerun MASTERS OF ILLUSION lost the same.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  VH1’s BLACK INK CREW led Wednesday cable, up […]

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THE SKED’S THURSDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 4/5/12

Posted April 6, 2012 by Mitch Salem

>Nobody wanted to watch TV last night. ABC: The premiere of Shonda Rhimes’ SCANDAL tied PRIVATE PRACTICE‘s 2.1 season low, a very unencouraging start. This followed new series lows for GREY’S ANATOMY and MISSING (2.8 and 1.4, respectively), making for a night of failure. FOX: AMERICAN IDOL fell to a series low 3.8, but even […]

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THE SKED: Showtime and Starz Not In a “Magic City”

Posted April 10, 2012 by Mitch Salem

>Numbers continue to come in for this past weekend’s scripted cable premieres. The biggest disappointment came at Starz, with Friday’s official arrival of MAGIC CITY, an expensive and heavily-marketed dramatic series. Although the network has released a flood of numbers designed to make the show sound more successful than it was, the key figure is […]

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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 25 Sunday Cable Originals (& Network Update): 10.26.2014

Posted October 28, 2014 by Mitch Metcalf

  NETWORK UPDATE:  ONCE UPON A TIME and THE GOOD WIFE each gained 0.1 in final numbers.  The latter tied GOOD WIFE with MADAM SECRETARY at 1.5, and gave GOOD WIFE a convincing win over REVENGE when they went head-to-head at 10PM (not that it’s hard to have a convincing win over REVENGE).  60 MINUTES […]

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