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SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “Blood & Oil”

  BLOOD & OIL:  Sunday 9PM on ABC – If Nothing Else Is On… ABC’s BLOOD & OIL, along with the same network’s midseason The Catch, holds the season’s crown for the most alterations infl...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Thursday 11.3.2022 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  STATION 19 fell 0.08 to 0.45, GREY’S ANATOMY lost 0.06 to 0.40, and ALASKA DAILY was down 0.09 to 0.17. CBS:  YOUNG SHELDON ticked up to 0.57, GHOSTS gained 0.02 to 0.55, SO HELP ME TODD wa...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED’S MONDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 8/5/13

  Just how much is Time Warner Cable’s blackout of CBS affecting the network’s ratings?  The answer is unclear for now–on Sunday, Big Brother was even with the prior week in final numbers, and while la...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY MONDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 1.1.2018

  A slow start for 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-...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 3/29/31

  OPENINGS:  The news never seems to be 100% good for DreamWorks Animation.  In the US, HOME (DWA/20th) had a smashing start with $54M, the studio’s best non-sequel opening since Monsters vs Aliens in 2009, and a b...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY Film Review: “Bad Words”

  BAD WORDS:  Watch It At Home – Hilarious, For a While BAD WORDS eventually has to spell out its plot, and that’s when, like many an initially enthusiastic competitor, it fades, becoming increasingly soft and...
by Mitch Salem
 
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OscarLand: Golden Globe Movie Nominees

  Although it’s always worth remembering that the Golden Globes are awarded by the few dozen foreign journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (and in many cases that should be phrased as “jour...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED’S THURSDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 6/21/12

ABC bundles up for a long, cold summer. ABC:  The Oklahoma City Thunder only had one win in them against the Heat, and while last night’s NBA FINALS Game 5 was the overwhelming winner of the night, beating all 5 competin...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED FALL TRAILER REVIEW: ABC’s “666 Park Avenue”

    666 PARK AVENUE:  Sunday 10PM on ABC   WHAT IT’S SAYING:  The Devil’s Advocate, Rosemary’s Baby and The Shining in a stunning NY apartment, and fielding an all-star team of ABC veterans (T...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 100 Wednesday Cable Originals (& Network Update): 6.10.2015

  NETWORK UPDATE:  CELEBRITY WIFE SWAP and THE BRIEFCASE each gained 0.1 in final numbers. CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  NBC Sports Net took the night’s cable honors with a 1.33 rating for Game 4 of the STANLEY CUP FINALS.  ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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BOX OFFICE FOOTNOTES – 3/26/11

Warners is claiming that Sucker Punch cost around $80M, which given the scale of the film suggests either admirable cost-effectiveness or a lowball number–in any case, word of mouth is likely to be terrible (see my review...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED: Ratings No Horror For “Story”

> FX’s AMERICAN HORROR STORY held up quite well in its second airing last night with a 1.4 in 18-49s, dropping only about 15% from its premiere (even though it faced new competition from the return of USA’s PSYCH, w...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED @ CABLE REPLAY; “Killing” Us Softly

> If you haven’t heard (and if you haven’t–and you care–consider this a SPOILER ALERT), the 13th episode of AMC’s series THE KILLING, its season finale, concluded on Sunday night without answering ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED’S THURSDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 6/27/13

  Last night’s NBA Draft on ESPN will probably have a 1.5-1.6 rating, which will make it the third-highest show of the night, behind only Hell’s Kitchen on FOX and a repeat Big Bang Theory on CBS.  (Last n...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED’S MONDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 10/15/12

You say you want a Revolution. NBC:  REVOLUTION, coming off its best episode thus far, leaped up 0.4 from last week to 3.4, making it by a substantial margin the biggest 10PM hit on broadcast TV.  Its lead-in from THE VOICE w...
by Mitch Salem
 
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