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The Sked: Super Bowl Ratings Summary and Comparisons to the Past

Partial ratings are in for last night’s Super Bowl (the household rating from the 56 markets with local Nielsen meters, covering 70% of the country).  Excluding the 8:45-9:15 pm half hour, most of which was the truly emb...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Wednesday 8.24.2022 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  Reruns at 0.29/0.21/0.22/0.17/0.24. CBS:  BIG BROTHER inched up 0.02 to 0.87, and THE CHALLENGE was down 0.03 to 0.39.  A SWAT rerun was at 0.17. NBC:  AMERICA’S GOT TALENT ticked down to...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

Year to Date Box Office & Worldwide Studio Scorecard

WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD.  A great week for Fox, which vaults into second place and just over $900 million worldwide box office year to date.  The very strong Fox week was paced by the domestic rollout of The Other Woman ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

AUDIENCE MAP: CW Fall 2015

The AUDIENCE MAP series continues with a look at fall 2015:  The CW’s primetime lineup is shown below.  As a reminder, the programs are arranged by broadcast schedule, with each show placed on the night it spent most o...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Sunday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 11.1.2020

        NETWORK FINALS:  NBC’s SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL adjusted to 4.9, up 0.6 from last week’s final.  After adjustment for late-afternoon NFL, THE SIMPSONS fell half a point (down 0.3 from the fina...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Monday 5.16.2022 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  After a run of the movie UP at 0.40, THE GOOD DOCTOR ticked up to 0.36. CBS:  THE NEIGHBORHOOD ticked down to 0.54, and BOB HEARTS ABISHOLA was up 0.02 to 0.46.  Returning from a rerun week, NCI...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 25 Friday Cable Originals (& Network Update): 2.27.2015

  NETWORK UPDATE:  HAWAII 5-0 gained 0.1 in final numbers, as did the night’s SHARK TANK rerun.  There was an 0.1 dip for one of the WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY reruns. Ratings in key demos for the Top 25 original cabl...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

Year to Date Box Office & Worldwide Studio Scorecard 4.30.2017

WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD.  Here is an updated look at the 2017 film slates by studio. YEAR TO DATE BOX OFFICE. Looking at North American box office, 2017 to date is now +10% above last year and now +16% above the averag...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

Weekly Network Ratings & Summer to Date Standings

Projected weekly network ratings in prime time (based on four days of official nationals and three days of fast nationals). CBS returned to the top spot this past week despite not airing in about 3 million Time Warner Cable hom...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

WEEKEND STUDIO ESTIMATES April 20-22

>The weekend studio estimates (based on Friday and Saturday actuals and projections for Sunday) are coming in slightly above the weekend numbers posted yesterday (based on Friday actuals only).  The box office volume for t...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings 2.17-18.2018

Here are the weekend sports ratings for Saturday and Sunday February 17-18, 2018.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 300K P2+).  Programs are grouped by sport a...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Friday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 2.2.2018

        NETWORK FINALS:  There were no changes from Friday’s preliminary ratings.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Discovery...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Friday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 7.15.2016

      NETWORK FINALS:  The AMERICA’S GOT TALENT rerun, both the new and rerun MASTERS OF ILLUSION episodes and the PENN & TELLER: FOOL US rerun all fell 0.1 in final numbers, while the MASTERCHEF rerun...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

Year to Date Box Office & Worldwide Studio Scorecard 12.30.2018

WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD.  Here is an updated look at the 2018 film slates by studio. The studio totals also include 2018 dollars for films released in late 2017. YEAR TO DATE BOX OFFICE. Looking at North American box offic...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY MONDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 1.11.2016

  NOTE:  The COLLEGE FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME (Alabama def. Clemson 45-40) aired on ESPN (and affiliated networks) at 8:30 pm ET. Ratings for the game will be available later today, and will undoubtedly dominate the Mon...
by Mitch Metcalf