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THE SKED Series Premiere Review: “Working the Engels”

  WORKING THE ENGELS:  Thursday 9:30PM on NBC – Change the Channel As summer sitcoms go, WORKING THE ENGELS makes Undateable look like the return of Seinfeld. It’s an inert pile of unfunny cliches, dysfunction...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED: CBS Makes Some Decisions

> Well, the good news for A GIFTED MAN is that it’s not cancelled.  It even has a “back order.”  However, it’s about as begrudging as a back order can be:  far from the usual 9 additional ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED’S PRELIMINARY THURSDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 8/15/13

  Don’t get too comfortable with this morning’s numbers.  Per Mitch Metcalf:  “Because of local pre-emptions for NFL preseason games, each network except for FOX should decline in the official nationals...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED’S SUNDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 4/29/12

> A bad night at the Eye. CBS:  It’s lucky for CBS that one of its May Sweeps Sundays will be filled by the Survivor season finale, because the regular line-up is falling apart.  For no clear reason, the season&...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY TRAILER WATCH: An “Avengers” Focus Group

> One of the good things about going to midnight premieres of blockbusters (there aren’t all that many) is that the audience is exactly the group (young, first adopters, eagerly moviegoing) Hollywood is targeting.  A...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

NIELSENWAR Full Season Network Report Cards: CBS

  Other Nielsenwar Network Report Cards:  ABC, FOX, NBC Tried and True is starting to look more tried. Full Season To Date (thru May 3) 18-49 Rating Average:  1.81 (down 4.1% from last season)–note, however, that l...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED SERIES FINALE REVIEW: “Luck”

> Last night, of course, was not intended to be the end of LUCK.  The enormously high-profile show, created by David Milch and with production supervised by pilot director Michael Mann, and fearuring a cast headed by Dusti...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY TUESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD -9.4.2018

  MAKING IT ended its season. 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 (wome...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

UPDATED: THE SKED CABLE/NETWORK SCORECARD – 2/3/14

  AFTERNOON UPDATE:  HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER had one of the biggest non-sports adjustments in memory, regaining all of the half-point it had appeared to lose from last week in the morning numbers and returning to 3.8.  Good fo...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Friday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 11.8.2019

        NETWORK FINALS:  Another chance to type the year’s most cumbersome title, as HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL:  THE MUSICAL:  THE SERIES gained 0.1 in final numbers, as did WWE SMACKDOWN.     &...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “The Real O’Neals”

  THE REAL O’NEALS:  Tuesday 8:30PM on ABC – Change the Channel Whatever its other ailments, over the past few years ABC has had an extraordinary run of diverse, smart family sitcoms,–an area where other...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED: ABC Evicts “The Neighbors”

  In a small but significant change to its fall schedule, ABC has switched the timeslots of SUBURGATORY and its new THE NEIGHBORS, shifting Suburgatory to the post-Modern Family slot at 9:30PM and moving Neighbors back to ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

POP CULTURE APOCALYPSE MINUS 9: “Hunger Games” and the IMAX Crush

> If you want to see THE HUNGER GAMES in IMAX, the best visual format available, you’re going to have to hurry:  it’s currently scheduled to screen in IMAX theatres for only a single week.  Even though Hun...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

The Sked: Sunday Network Scorecard 3.25.2018

  A very big night for 60 MINUTES. 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 ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

WEEKEND ACTUAL & YEAR TO DATE Coming Tomorrow

>Because of the Labor Day holiday, weekend actuals and year-to-date box office results will be posted Tuesday.  Please check back tomorrow. Coming later today (Monday): the Pathway to Profits feature, along with studio sco...
by Mitch Salem