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UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Saturday Cable Originals & Network Update: 1.2.2016

    NETWORK UPDATE:  There were no changes from the preliminary Saturday numbers. Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  The penultimate day of ESPN’s COLLEGE FOOTBAL...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Sunday 3.20.2022 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  A rerun AMERICA’S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS was at 0.41.  AMERICAN IDOL crashed by three-tenths to 0.65.  A STEP INTO THE MOVIES special was at 0.34. CBS:  With a big NCAA TOURNAMENT lead-in, ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

ShowBuzzDaily SUMMER MOVIE DRAFT: July 8 Update

>Through Thursday, Team Metcalf has pulled within $400,000 of Team Salem in the first annual ShowBuzzDaily Summer Movie Draft.  Another weekend of Transformers: Dark of the Moon (around $45 million) and two new comedies (e...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE PREDICTIONS November 18-20

>This weekend is all about Twilight Breaking Dawn, which will be huge.  But Happy Feet Two should manage an opening that would look stellar on any other recent weekend.  Overall box office this weekend should be up 33...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

Year to Date Box Office & Worldwide Studio Scorecard 1.24.2016

WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD.  We will continue tracking 2015 for several more weeks as the holiday films finish their runs.  We will begin tracking the 2016 slates next week.   YEAR TO DATE BOX OFFICE. Looking at North A...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 100 Tuesday Cable Originals (& Network Update): 6.16.2015 — Now Updated with Top 40 Demographic Chart

  NOTE TO READERS:  For the next several days, our cable ratings charts will be posted first in preliminary form, with the charts in their usual format following a few hours later.  Some delays are also likely.  UPDATE:...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

Year to Date Box Office & Worldwide Studio Scorecard 1.26.2020

WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD.  Here is an updated look at the 2019 film slates by studios (films entering wide release in the 2019 calendar year), including worldwide box office for those films during 2020. We will begin the tra...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

THE SKED’s Fall TV Ratings Predictions – Wednesday

  Our journey through the fall primetime schedule–and by “our,” I mean former head of NBC Scheduling Mitch Metcalf, former head of NBC Current Programming Ted Frank and myself–takes us to what may b...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Thursday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 6.11.2020

        NETWORK FINALS:  BROKE and the reruns of YOUNG SHELDON and MOM gained 0.1 in final numbers, while DON’T and LABOR OF LOVE lost the same.          Broadcast Official Nationals ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY WEDNESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 2.21.2018

  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 adult...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings 10.8-9.2016

Here are the weekend sports ratings for Saturday and Sunday October 8-9, 2016.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 150K P2+).  Programs are grouped by sport and ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY TUESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 11.10.2015

  WICKED CITY became too bad to live. 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 ske...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

The Sked: Cable Ratings June 5-11

HBO’s True Blood premiered its new season with a 2.9 rating with Adults 18-49, about where it left off last season.  The final four episodes last year (Aug 21-Sep 11, 2011): 3.1– 2.9– 2.4– 2.8.  At the...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Monday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 8.13.2018

        NETWORK FINALS:  As expected, the entire CW line-up came down by 0.1 after adjustment.  Elsewhere, THE PROPOSAL lost 0.1 in final numbers, while the rerun of MOM gained the same.     &nbs...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Monday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 7.4.2016

        NETWORK FINALS:  The BOSTON POPS FIREWORKS SPECTACULAR, MISTRESSES  and the 2 BROKE GIRLS rerun lost 0.1 in final July 4th numbers, and the MACY’S 4TH OF JULY FIREWORKS SPECTACULAR instant re...
by Mitch Metcalf