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THE SKED NETWORK SCORECARD – 11/27/13

  The hills were not alive last night. NBC:  The night before Thanksgiving is traditionally an extremely slow one for TV viewing, and networks don’t typically air hour-long infomercials for their own upcoming progra...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “Hotel Transylvania 3″” Solid, “Skyscraper” Craters, “Ant-Man & The Wasp” Drops, “Sorry To Bother You” Widens, “Eighth Grade” Starts Big

  HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 3: SUMMER VACATION (Sony Animation/Columbia/Sony) continues to be a solid mid-level franchise.  Preliminary numbers at Deadline have the opening day box office at $16.3M, the best of the trio, althoug...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

The Sked: Sunday Ratings 4.24.2016

  Now we know how NBC’s sitcoms perform without a new LITTLE BIG SHOTS lead-in. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary key advertiser demographics (adu...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “The Purge”

  THE PURGE:  Tuesday 10PM on USA THE PURGE movie franchise has made a fortune by working both sides of the ideological street.  On the one hand, it professes to condemn the near-future dystopia it depicts, in which an a...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED: “Devious Maids” Takes A Walk to Lifetime

  It’s rare for a busted network pilot to find a home somewhere else, but DEVIOUS MAIDS, which had been created by Desperate Housewives‘ Marc Cherry initially for ABC (and by its in-house studio), has accomplis...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 11.10.2019

  OPENINGS:  MIDWAY (AGC/Bona/Lionsgate) was mildly ahead of expectations with $17.5M in the US, and it should perform well on Veterans Day Monday.  However, with around $150M in production and worldwide marketing costs,...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED: CW Premiere Dates

  CW had previously announced that virtually its entire line-up would premiere in October (allowing its mostly serialized shows to air with fewer of the hiatuses and repeats that have tended to disrupt the network’s ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

THE BIJOU REVIEW: “Jack and Jill”





Our Review / 5 - Terrible
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SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments”

  SHADOWHUNTERS: THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS:  Tuesday 9PM on Freeform – If Nothing Else Is On… Fans of mediocre YA fantasy adventure may remember SHADOWHUNTERS: THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS from its last incarnation, as...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Fear the Walking Dead”

  In their teardown season as new showrunners of FEAR THE WALKING DEAD, Andrew Chambliss and Ian Goldberg didn’t solve all the problems inherent in the franchise, and the season was uneven, only partly for reasons of...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Wednesday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 3.7.2018

        NETWORK FINALS:  The bad start for LIFE SENTENCE got worse, as it fell 0.1 in final numbers to a dismal 0.2, even as lead-in RIVERDALE rose 0.1 to 0.5.  Also down 0.1:  CHICAGO PD, while THE GOLDB...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Finale Review: “Falling Skies”

  The past two seasons of FALLING SKIES have been something of a wreck, all the way through to tonight’s flat finale, and with its ratings echoing the show’s title, it’s hard to regard the show’s de...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

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...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

UPDATED: THE SKED CABLE/NETWORK WEDNESDAY SCORECARD – 5/21/14

NETWORK UPDATE:  The season finale of SURVIVOR edged up 0.1 in final numbers, moving it into a tie with AMERICAN IDOL.  (The SURVIVOR post-finale special lost 0.1.)  The season finales of THE MIDDLE and MODERN FAMILY both ga...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

The Sked: Network TV Update Thanksgiving

>Better late than never.  Thanksgiving was a pretty turgid night on network television.  TV usage drops through the floor with women, while usage levels for men are pretty good on Thanksgiving night — but they a...
by Mitch Salem