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SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings (August 23-24, 2014)

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday August 23 and Sunday August 24, 2014. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television populati...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

THE SKED NETWORK SCORECARD – 8/24/14

  Big Brother had no trouble with preseason football. CBS:  BIG BROTHER rose 0.3 from last week to 2.5, easily the top show of the night.  60 MINUTES was also up 0.3 to 1.1, and UNFORGETTABLE grew by 0.1 to 0.9, while RE...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

Year to Date Box Office & Worldwide Studio Scorecard 8.24.2014

WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD.  Again, no changes to the year to date studio ranking of worldwide box office.  20th Century Fox remains #1 and also had the largest gain this week (an okay $87 million weekly gain, mostly because ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

Weekend Studio Estimates AUGUST 22-24

Based on Friday’s and Saturday’s grosses, weekend #34 of 2014 now looks like $105 million for the top 12 films Friday-Sunday, a little better than yesterday’s estimate ($103 million) but still somewhat below o...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

FRIDAY AUGUST 22 Box Office Report

Based on Friday’s grosses, weekend #34 of 2014 looks like $103 million for the top 12 films Friday-Sunday, somewhat below our forecast ($111 million) but still 21% above the norm for this weekend ($86 million). Opening a...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 25 Thursday Cable Originals: 8.21.2014

  NETWORK UPDATE:  Despite all of last night’s football preemptions, only ABC was affected in the final numbers, as THE QUEST lost 0.2 and ROOKIE BLUE lost 0.1 (putting its season finale at the same 1.0 as last year...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

THE SKED NETWORK SCORECARD – 8/21/14

  Last night’s exhibition football preemptions will keep several networks’ numbers somewhat unclear until this afternoon. ABC:  The 2-hour ROOKIE BLUE season finale is currently at 1.1, up 0.2 from last week (...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 25 Wednesday Cable Originals: 8.20.2014

  NETWORK UPDATE:  As expected, AMERICA’S GOT TALENT went up 0.1 in final numbers and TAXI BROOKLYN reduced correspondingly.  In addition, PENN & TELLER: FOOL US lost 0.1. Below are ratings in key demographics ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

THE SKED NETWORK SCORECARD – 8/20/14

  Two hours of Extant weren’t better than one. CBS:  In a hurry to get its EXTANT season over, CBS ran back-to-back episodes last night, and scored 1.0/0.9, the latter of which gave the show a new series low.  This...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

Weekend Box Office Predictions AUGUST 22-24

Weekend #34 of 2014 is looking like $111 million for the top 12 films this weekend, up 30% from the norm for this weekend and the fourth up weekend in a row after six straight down weekends. Opening at over 2,750 theaters Frid...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 25 Tuesday Cable Originals: 8.19.2014

NETWORK UPDATE:  As expected, FOOD FIGHTERS and AMERICA’S GOT TALENT exchanged 0.1s in final network numbers.  EXTREME WEIGHT LOSS and 20/20 each gained 0.1.  In addition, the FAMILY GUY rerun rose 0.1 and the SUPERNAT...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

THE SKED NETWORK SCORECARD – 8/19/14

  America’s Got Talent dominated another slow summer Tuesday. NBC:  FOOD FIGHTERS is currently up 0.1 to 1.1, and AMERICA’S GOT TALENT is down 0.2 to 1.9, but it wouldn’t be a surprise to see a shuffling...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY’S Top 25 Monday Cable Originals – 8/18/14

NETWORK UPDATE:  AMERICA’S NEXT TOP MODEL’s season premiere lost an additional 0.1 in adjusted ratings that it couldn’t afford to shed, ending up at an anemic 0.4.  RUNNING WILD and AMERICAN NINJA WARRIOR al...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

THE SKED NETWORK SCORECARD – 8/18/14

  The new season gets underway!  (Sort of.) CW:  The network took a jump on the fall TV season by debuting the newest cycle of AMERICA’S NEXT TOP MODEL at 0.5.  That was 0.1 below last season’s premiere, whi...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 25 Friday Cable Originals – 8/15/14

  In addition to the shows below, note that the 2d episode of THE KNICK (Cinemax) didn’t make the chart (it was #43 of the night’s cable originals) with a 0.13 rating in 18-49s and 419K total viewers.  That ...
by Mitch Metcalf