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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “The Strain”

  THE STRAIN:  Sunday 10PM on FX FX’s goofiest drama, THE STRAIN, is back for its third season, long-tongued vampiric monsters and Eastern European mythology intact.  Season 2 may have been less notable for killing...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED’S BUSTED PILOT THEATRE: “Vince Uncensored”

> See A Word About Busted Pilots Not even the presence of Michael Chiklis and Elizabeth Perkins could make VINCE UNCENSORED endurable.   Deservedly consigned by CBS to its trash-bin, this isn’t one of those pilots yo...
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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Friends With Kids”

    FRIENDS WITH KIDS:  Worth A Ticket – Sitcom, In A Good Way   We live in a pop culture where the recent Emmy Award nominees are so clearly superior to the films up for this past year’s Oscar that ...
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THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Go On”

  GO ON is a genuine bubble show–not just in its ratings (which are strong when it has The Voice as a lead-in and barely acceptable when it doesn’t), but in its quality.  The series wobbles from episode to epi...
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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 12.2.2018

  OPENINGS:  At $6.5M, THE POSSESSION OF HANNAH GRACE (Screen Gems/Sony) performed adequately for a low-budget horror item placed in one of the lower-grossing weekends of the year.  Possession also earned $4.1M in 17 int...
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BEHIND THE FRIDAY BOXOFFICE – 4/19/13

  OPENINGS:  OBLIVION (Universal) had a fairly good start, with a $13.3M Thursday night/Friday that should give it a $35-38M weekend, depending on word of mouth.  But that’s still lower than the $15.3M earned by GI...
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THE SKED NETWORK SCORECARD – 11/29/13

  Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Garth Brooks. CBS:  On an otherwise weak night, GARTH BROOKS: LIVE FROM LAS VEGAS towered over everything else at 1.8, better than anything CBS has run all fall in the 9-11PM Friday slot.  It ...
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SHOWBUZZDAILY BOXOFFICE: “Dark Knight Rises” Actual Weekend Numbers

  After a moratorium on official boxoffice pronouncements due to the tragic events in Colorado, Warners has officially released the weekend boxoffice figure for THE DARK KNIGHT RISES:  $160.9M.  This is where the unoffic...
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THE SKED’S TUESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 8/6/13

  Another quiet Tuesday on the networks. NBC:  AMERICA’S GOT TALENT was the night’s highest rated show, but its 2.5 was down 0.2 from last week. ABC:  EXTREME WEIGHT LOSS held at 1.2. FOX:  SO YOU THINK YO...
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BEHIND THE WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: 9/29/13

  OPENINGS:  Once it became clear that the predicted $40M wasn’t going to happen, CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2 (Sony) badly wanted to claim a $35M opening, and so it did.  Actually hitting that number will ...
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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Thursday 5.19.2022 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  The season finale of STATION 19 was at 0.58, up a tenth from last week but down 0.11 from last season’s finale.  GREY’S ANATOMY rose 0.11 to 0.60.  The season finale of BIG SKY was a...
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SHOWBUZZDAILY MONDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 5.20.2019

  THE BACHELORETTE and THE VOICE dominated. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary live+same day key advertiser demographics (adult 18-34, 18-49 and 25-54 ra...
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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Tuesday 3.21.2023 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  Returning from a 3-week break, THE ROOKIE slipped 0.02 to 0.45, THE ROOKIE: FEDS dropped 0.04 to 0.27, and WILL TRENT was up 0.04 to 0.29. CBS:  Reruns at 0.32/0.23/0.21. NBC:  After a rerun NIG...
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THE SKED FRIDAY NETWORK SCORECARD: 12/14/12

The 10PM hour was taken up by news shows concerning some of the saddest of recent events. FOX:  Lacking a news division of its own (let’s pretend its affiliated cable network doesn’t exist), FOX aired its regular l...
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THE BIJOU: “Submarine”

> Worth A Ticket:  A teen movie unlike any other. Richard Ayoade’s emotionally rich SUBMARINE is shaping up as one of the sadder stories of the indie boxoffice season.   It was greeted rapturously at the Toronto...
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