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UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Wednesday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 1.31.2018

Posted February 1, 2018 by Mitch Metcalf

        NETWORK FINALS:  THE AMAZING RACE and the rerun of SPEECHLESS gained 0.1 in final numbers, while THE BLACKLIST and SVU lost the same.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  VH1’s BLACK INK CREW shared the lead in Wednesday cable, despite a 0.11 drop […]

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SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings 2.13-14.2016

Posted February 16, 2016 by Mitch Metcalf

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday February 13 and Sunday February 14, 2016. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. Click here for sports ratings from the same calendar weekend last year. NBA Sunday 4.43 rating TNT 8:30 pm […]

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UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Saturday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 8.27.2016

Posted August 30, 2016 by Mitch Metcalf

      NETWORK FINALS:  CBS’s national PRESEASON NFL game held at 1.0 in final numbers, as did FOX’s 0.8 for UFC FIGHT NIGHT.  Local NFL preemptions were likely responsible for most if not all of the changes on the other networks.  On ABC, the LAST MAN STANDING rerun as well as both episodes of […]

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THE HUNGER GAMES, MAD MEN and Marketing Restraint (Pop Culture Apocalypse Minus 7)

Posted March 16, 2012 by Mitch Salem

> The eagerly-awaited Season 5 of the most honored series on television, an interminable 17 months in the making, contents itself with a single enigmatic image:  Don Draper staring into a department store window, his reflected gaze held by two mannequins, one a naked female, her dress at her feet, the other a seated man […]

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UPDATED AND CORRECTED: THE SKED’S WEDNESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 5/29/13

Posted May 30, 2013 by Mitch Salem

  First, our abject apologies.  We were working from inaccurate ratings numbers this morning when this was first posted, and consequently our charts were off.  We’ll try to make sure that doesn’t happen again.  Here were last night’s real results: NBC:  A post-tornado Oklahoma City benefit concert HEALING IN THE HEARTLAND was less than an […]

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UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Monday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 6.10.2019

Posted June 11, 2019 by Mitch Metcalf

        NETWORK FINALS:  ABC’s NBA FINALS game adjusted to 6.5.          Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  USA’s WWE telecast was at 0.75/0.65/0.59, compared to last week’s 0.82/0.79/0.73.  On VH1, LOVE & HIP-HOP dropped 0.05 to 0.67, and TI & TINY was down 0.06 to […]

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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Tuesday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 5.18.2021

Posted May 19, 2021 by Mitch Metcalf

      Analysis to follow.       Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   Top 50 Original Cable Telecasts with Demographic Detail Top 150 Original Cable Telecasts To search for a show: type Ctrl-F and type your show title in the search box. Top 150 Original Cable Telecasts: Tuesday May 18, 2021 P18-49 P2+ Rank […]

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UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Saturday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 7.22.2017

Posted July 25, 2017 by Mitch Metcalf

        NETWORK FINALS:  The 8PM DOUBT fell 0.1 in final numbers to a terrible-even-for-Saturday 0.1.  In addition, UFC FIGHT NIGHT gained 0.1.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  A&E’s LIVE PD topped the night, down 0.08 from last Saturday to 0.60.  (HBO listed the […]

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