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Behind the Friday Box Office – 4/25/14

  This will be the last weekend without a mega-hit on top for a while. OPENINGS:  THE OTHER WOMAN (20th) will take the weekend with around $25M after a $9.3M Friday, and the potentially better news is that Diaz’s la...
by Mitch Salem
 
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EARLY WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: “The Other Woman” Stays On Top

  Saturday’s box office didn’t bring any major changes to the results indicated by Friday’s, according to preliminary numbers at Deadline.  THE OTHER WOMAN (20th) was fairly flat, rising only 3% Friday-t...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Behind the Weekend Box Office – 4/27/14

  OPENINGS:  THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 (Sony) is still several days from its US opening, but the superhero spectacle already has $132M in the bank after a $67.2M 2d weekend in 42 international territories–which don&#...
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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Studio Summer Movie Guide: Sony

  We’re just days away from the launch of the summer movie season, the most important part of the year for all of the major studios.  Literally billions of dollars will be on the line over the next several months, w...
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THE SKED Series Premiere Review: “Last Week Tonight With John Oliver”

  LAST WEEK TONIGHT WITH JOHN OLIVER:  Sunday 11PM on HBO John Oliver’s was one of the feel-good TV stories of 2013.  Pulled into duty as substitute host of The Daily Show when Jon Stewart took a 3-month break to d...
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THE SKED Pilot + 1 Review: “Salem”

  SALEM:  Sunday 10PM on WGN America Previously… on SALEM:  In the late 17th century, the town of Salem had a fanatical witch hunter in the person of Cotton Mather (Seth Gabel), but also a coven of very real witche...
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EARLY SUNDAY CABLE RATINGS: Strong Start For “Last Week Tonight”

  You know all those people who were so angry about That Thing That Happened on last week’s GAME OF THRONES that they swore up and down the internet they were done with the show forever?  Apparently they didn’...
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UPDATED: THE SKED CABLE/NETWORK SCORECARD – 4/25/14

  UPDATE:  The season finale of LAST MAN STANDING found a 0.1 bump in adjusted Friday ratings (to a very decent 1.4), as did SHARK TANK, HAWAII 5-0 and BLUE BLOODS.  But the news was bad at NBC (which had been preempted ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Studio Summer Movie Guide: Universal

  This week, as the clock ticks toward the start of the summer movie season, we’re taking a studio-by-studio look at each company’s line-up and prospects.  Last time we covered Sony, and today we’ll exam...
by Mitch Salem
 
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UPDATED: THE SKED CABLE/NETWORK SCORECARD – 4/28/14

  AFTERNOON UPDATE:  I don’t follow DANCING WITH THE STARS, so can’t opine on what they did right last night.  But the show’s 0.2 bump in final numbers (after adjustment for ABC’s Portland preemption)...
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UPDATED: THE SKED CABLE/NETWORK SCORECARD – 4/27/14

  NETWORK UPDATE:  BELIEVE lost 0.2 in final Sunday numbers, so instead of being up 0.1 from last week, it was actually down to a new low 1.0.  The other adjustments were of 0.1, with THE SIMPSONS, ONCE UPON A TIME and REVEN...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED: The Craig Ferguson Shoe Drops

  Craig Ferguson is maintaining that his decision to leave CBS and THE LATE LATE SHOW WITH CRAIG FERGUSON in December is absolutely, entirely, utterly, completely, totally unrelated to the network’s recent decision t...
by Mitch Salem
 
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NIELSENWAR: Weekly/Season Ratings Charts; and How Low Can Bubble Shows Go?

  There was little change from last week in the new weekly averages (based on 5 days of final Same Day ratings and 2 days of overnights), as again no network averaged over 1.5 in 18-49s over the course of the week.  ABC h...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Studio Summer Movie Guide: Warner Bros.

  In our week-long look at the box office prospects of the nearly-here summer movie season on a studio by studio basis, we’ve examined Sony and Universal.  Today our eye is on Warner Bros, typically one of the busie...
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THE SKED Series Premiere Review: “Playing House”

  PLAYING HOUSE:  Tuesday 10PM on USA – If Nothing Else Is On… Created by and starring real-life best friends Jessica St. Clair and Lennon Parham, PLAYING HOUSE is, as sisterhood comedies created by and starri...
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