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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Friday 4.21.2023 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  An NBA PLAYOFFS game at 0.68. CBS:  Returning from a rerun week, SWAT sipped 0.02 to 0.39, FIRE COUNTRY lost 0.03 to 0.41, and BLUE BLOODS was down 0.05 to 0.30. NBC:  LOPEZ VS LOPEZ, back from ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Tuesday 4.19.2022 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  JUDGE STEVE HARVEY dropped 0.14 to 0.40.  The series finale of BLACK-ISH fell 0.06 to 0.37, with a post-show special at 0.26.  TO TELL THE TRUTH was down 0.04 to 0.27. CBS:  FBI lost 0.07 to 0....
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Lorax”



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THE SKED Season Premiere Review: “Unforgettable”

  UNFORGETTABLE:  Sunday 9PM on CBS – If Nothing Else Is On… You may already have forgotten UNFORGETTABLE.  It debuted in fall 2011 as one of CBS’s seemingly inexhaustible supply of procedurals, its par...
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THE SKED’S FRI-MON CABLE SCORECARD – 4/19-22/13

  FRIDAY STARZ;  In its second week, DA VINCI’S DEMONS lost half its premiere rating, falling to a 0.2 in 18-49s and half a million total viewers.  Starz strenuously asserts that this is primarily due to viewers wa...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “Moana” Stays On Top

  There don’t appear to be many surprises in the Friday box office numbers, based on preliminary estimates at Deadline.  As usual, ticket sales declined on Thanksgiving itself (particularly for family movies), then ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED Pilot + 1 Review: “Gang-Related”

  GANG-RELATED:  Thursday 9PM on FOX Previously… on GANG-RELATED:  Ryan Lopez (Ramon Rodriguez) is an LAPD detective on the city’s inter-agency anti-gang task force, working for Sam Chapel (Terry O’Quin...
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THE BIJOU REVIEW: “Puncture”





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UPDATED 4TH OF JULY BOX OFFICE: “Despicable Me 2” Drops, “Lone Ranger” Holds Steady (and Low)

  NOTE:  This Post Has Been Updated With Actual Studio Estimates Typically Independence Day itself is a relatively quiet day for moviegoing, because audiences have other things to do, and DESPICABLE ME 2 (Universal) fell ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Happyish”

  It’s not as though HAPPYISH creator Shalom Auslander is unaware that many would consider his protagonists Thom and Lee Payne (Steve Coogan and Kathryn Hahn) to be whiny, tiresome, self-important narcissists–h...
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SHOWBUZZDAILY BOXOFFICE: Spidey Flies Fairly High On the 4th

  THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (Sony) earned $23.4M at the boxoffice on July 4th, which is clearly a very good number.  The question is, how good? It was the 2d highest Independence Day gross ever, below only the original Trans...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED’S TUESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 8/14/12

NBC wins a night it would have won even without the Olympics. NBC:  AMERICA’S GOT TALENT was the highest rated show of the night with the same 2.7 rating it had before the Olympics.  A cutdown version of the STARS EARN ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED 2013 UPFRONTS: CBS Featurette – “We Are Men”

  The CBS featurette for its new Monday 8:30PM comedy WE ARE MEN is at great pains to suggest that the cast–Chris Smith, Tony Shalhoub, Jerry O’Connell and Kal Penn, as divorcees who live in the same residentia...
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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Side Effects”

  SIDE EFFECTS:  Watch It On TV – Soderbergh’s Final Big-Screen Film (For Now) Isn’t His Best Steven Soderbergh’s announcement that with SIDE EFFECTS, his career as a director of movies produced to...
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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 5.14.2017

  OPENINGS:  Box office receipts for Mothers Day haven’t been counted yet, but SNATCHED (TSG/20th) is assuming (probably justifiably) that it will be the holiday choice, which brings the studio’s weekend estim...
by Mitch Salem