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The Sked SATURDAY RATINGS January 28

>FOX scored an impressive (for Saturday) preliminary 2.2 rating with Adults 18-49 last night with UFC: Evans vs Davis from Chicago (featuring two other undercard Ultimate Fighting bouts).  The live fights built smartly thr...
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THE SKED’S WEDNESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 11/9/11

> A seemingly atypical night turned out to be fairly typical after all. ABC:  The network preempted its entire line-up for the CMA AWARDS, and did very well, with a preliminary 4.8 that was up a tick from last year’s...
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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Tuesday 11.15.2022 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED

  BROADCAST FINALS (Due to last week’s election coverage, comparisons are to 2 weeks ago unless otherwise noted) ABC:  BACHELOR IN PARADISE ticked up to 0.50, and THE ROOKIE: FEDS was down 0.04 to 0.21. CBS:  New e...
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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 10.13.2024

OPENINGS:  TERRIFIER 3 (Cineverse) broke through to a mainstream audience with an $18.3M weekend, which is more than the entire $10.6M run of 2022’s Terrifier 2 (that one’s highest weekend was $1.9M).  The new ent...
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Pilot Reports

SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “Battle Creek”

  BATTLE CREEK:  Sunday 10PM on CBS – Change the Channel While not the worst show of the season, BATTLE CREEK may well be the most disappointing.  The light procedural combines the talents of two of TV’s prem...
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UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Thursday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 11.26.2020

        NETWORK FINALS:  Boosted by its huge NFL lead-in, THE MASKED SINGER rose by half a point to a giant 3.5 in final numbers, and I CAN SEE YOUR VOICE was up 0.2 to 1.8.  Elsewhere, there were 0.1 bumps fo...
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Articles

THE SKED NETWORK SCORECARD – 10/4/13

  ABC:  LAST MAN STANDING rose 0.2 from last week to 1.4, enough to tie it for 1st place in the timeslot on a sleepy Friday night.  But THE NEIGHBORS is probably just playing out its string, with no bump from last week&#...
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EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “Minions” In Control

  MINIONS (Illumination/Universal) was expected to enfold the weekend box office in its little yellow fingers, and so it is.  Preliminary numbers at Deadline give it a $45M opening day, which appears to be the largest ope...
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UPDATED: THE SKED 2013 UPFRONTS: The New ABC Schedule – Grid & Instant Analysis

  ABC needs to dig its way out of 4th place next season, and no one can say they’re not putting in the effort.  Every night of the week in the fall will have be changed except Mondays, and the network is introducing...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 2.6.2022

  OPENINGS:  The male 18-34 demo was again at the center of the box office, largely fueling the $23.5M start for JACKASS FOREVER (Paramount), not quite at the level of the last product of the franchise, 2013’s Bad G...
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2014-15 TV Season

NIELSENWAR 2014-15 Trailer Review: NBC’s “The Mysteries of Laura”

  THE MYSTERIES OF LAURA:  Wednesday 8PM on NBC THE FACTS:  Laura Diamond (Debra Messing) is an NYPD homicide detective who also has to juggle her responsibilities to her young twin sons and her issues with her estranged...
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Pilot Reports

SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “LA To Vegas”

  LA TO VEGAS:  Tuesday 9PM on FOX – In the Queue Broadcast TV kicks off its new scripted series year with FOX’s well-paced LA TO VEGAS, a mostly retro workplace sitcom with a small twist:  Lon Zimmet’...
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Articles

SHOWBUZZDAILY’S 2021 OSCARS LIVE BLOG

  A unique year in the history of movies (not to mention the history of the world) will culminate in a unique ACADEMY AWARDS tonight.  Only a small fraction of audiences will have seen any of the nominees on a big screen,...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Tuesday 6.13.2023 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  Reruns at 0.40/0.26/0.19. CBS:  Reruns at 0.27/0.25/0.26. NBC:  AMERICA’S GOT TALENT dipped 0.05 to 0.63, and HOT WHEELS was down 0.04 to 0.26. FOX:  BEAT SHAZAM dropped 0.09 to 0.17, and...
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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Sucker Punch”

    Not Even For Free   Remember Ken Russell’s movie of The Who’s Tommy?  The scene where Ann-Margret’s nervous breakdown was visualized by her television set vomiting out baked beans, chocolat...
by Mitch Salem
 
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