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THE SKED: Ad Age Shows Us the Network Money – Part 2: The Shows

Yesterday we did our homework and reviewed the groundrules for calculating the meaning of primetime network ad rates listed by Ad Age in its yearly survey. So… all that being said, where are the networks making their mo...

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UPDATED: THE SKED’S WEDNESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 10/24/12

World Series Game 1 won the night, but didn’t seem to affect anyone else very much. ABC: After a slightly increased 2.6 (in final numbers) steady 2.5 from its THE MIDDLE lead-in, THE NEIGHBORS was up a tick to 2.0, stil...

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THE SKED’S THURSDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 10/25/12

Several TV institutions tottered last night. ABC: It’s going to be awfully hard to justify a back order for LAST RESORT, which plunged 0.4 to a terrible 1.3. Perhaps even scarier for ABC was GREY’S ANATOMY. Th...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY EARLY FRIDAY BOXOFFICE – 10/26/12

Preliminary numbers at Deadline show a tightly-bunched, none too impressive weekend underway at the boxoffice. ARGO (Warners), SILENT HILL: REVELATION (Open Road), CLOUD ATLAS (Warners) and PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 4 (Par...

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THE SKED REVIEW: SNL With Louis C.K.

Add to Louis C.K.’s remarkable list of recent achievements the ability to intermittently brighten up a routine episode of SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE. They weren’t all gems, but a couple of tonight’s sketches w...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY BEHIND THE FRIDAY BOXOFFICE – 10/26/12

Ugliness abounds, unless your title is Argo. OPENINGS: CLOUD ATLAS (Warners) will be the tallest tree in the weekend’s bonzai forest, but that’s small comfort for a movie that cost $100M (plus heavy marketi...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY EARLY WEEKEND BOXOFFICE – 10/27/12

The news didn’t get better for any of the weekend’s openings on Saturday, according to early numbers at Deadline–and that’s before the effect, if any, of Sunday’s east coast storms. ARGO (...

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BEHIND THE WEEKEND BOXOFFICE – 10/28/12

The biggest boxoffice story of the weekend happened overseas: in only 25 international markets, SKYFALL (Sony) the new James Bond, has opened at a scorching, record-setting pace, with a reported $77.7M in 3 days (inclu...

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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Fun Size”

FUN SIZE: Not For Any Price – As Halloween Movies Go, John Carpenter’s Are Funnier FUN SIZE marks the feature directing debut of Josh Schwartz, but he’s hardly a neophyte, being the muscle behind (and...

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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Life of Pi”

LIFE OF PI: Worth A Ticket – A Floating Display of Visual Marvels A boy and a Bengal tiger get into a lifeboat… The digital paintbox now available to filmmakers provides an almost limitless variety of visua...

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THE SKED SUNDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 10/28/12

The World Series survives another year… but only with the help of football. FOX: There’s a certain irony in the fact that WORLD SERIES GAME 4 avoided record lows (as detailed in Mitch Metcalf’s Daily Ratings...

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THE SKED: “Up All Night” 4.0–This Is A Real Thing

Once upon a time, there was a single-camera sitcom pilot at NBC called UP ALL NIGHT. It was the story of Reagan and Chris Brinkley (Christina Applegate and Will Arnett), who had to cope with becoming new parents and th...

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THE SKED: “Hell On Wheels” Keeps Riding the Rails

AMC has renewed its building-the-railroad melodrama HELL ON WHEELS for a 10-episode 3rd season. The renewal was far from a sure thing, as the show has indifferent ratings among 18-49s (the recent season finale was at 0...

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THE SKED PICK-UP PARADE: ABC’s “The Neighbors” and “Scandal” Owe Thanks to NBC

ABC should send a nice thank-you note to NBC, because the marginal but sufficient success of THE NEIGHBORS and SCANDAL, both of which received full-season 22 episode orders today, is directly due to the weakness of the P...

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THE SKED NIELSENWAR – Week 5

We’re now 5 weeks into the 2012-13 TV season, and as we regularly do, it’s time to ask: What do we know now that we didn’t know a week ago? NBC Is Running Out Of Sitcoms. With the cancellation of An...

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THE SKED: Ad Age Shows Us the Network Money – Part 2: The Shows

UPDATED: THE SKED’S WEDNESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 10/24/12

THE SKED’S THURSDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 10/25/12

SHOWBUZZDAILY EARLY FRIDAY BOXOFFICE – 10/26/12

THE SKED REVIEW: SNL With Louis C.K.

SHOWBUZZDAILY BEHIND THE FRIDAY BOXOFFICE – 10/26/12

SHOWBUZZDAILY EARLY WEEKEND BOXOFFICE – 10/27/12

BEHIND THE WEEKEND BOXOFFICE – 10/28/12

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Fun Size”

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Life of Pi”

THE SKED SUNDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 10/28/12

THE SKED: “Up All Night” 4.0–This Is A Real Thing

THE SKED: “Hell On Wheels” Keeps Riding the Rails

THE SKED PICK-UP PARADE: ABC’s “The Neighbors” and “Scandal” Owe Thanks to NBC

THE SKED NIELSENWAR – Week 5

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