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Daily Ratings Reports

THE SKED’S TUESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 7/23/13

  America’s Got Talent continued to dominate Tuesdays, doubling the next highest rating on the night. NBC:  AMERICA’S GOT TALENT climbed an impressive 0.3 from last week to 2.8, and in the 10PM hour it more th...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 10.23.2022

  OPENINGS:  BLACK ADAM (DC/New Line/Warners) arrived within moderate expectations at $67M.  That’s the highest weekend we’ve seen since Thor: Love & Thunder in July, but as a superhero epic with a $300M+...
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Pilot Reports

SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “Unsolved”

  UNSOLVED: THE MURDERS OF TUPAC & THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G. – Tuesday 10PM on USA – Potential DVR Alert The progeny of The People vs. OJ Simpson continue to arrive.  This season we’ve had the (so far) en...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Friday 8.19.2022 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  Reruns at 0.33/0.35. CBS:  SECRET CELEBRITY RENOVATION gained 0.06 to 0.24, followed by reruns at 0.18/0.21. NBC:  Reruns at 0.22/0.19. FOX:  WWE SMACKDOWN was up 0.03 to 0.47. CW:  KILLER CAM...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Articles

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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EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “American Sniper” Takes Out the Competition

  OPENINGS:  Even though it technically opened last year, 2015 has its first blockbuster hit with AMERICAN SNIPER (Warners/Village Roadshow).  According to preliminary numbers at Deadline, Clint Eastwood’s newly-mi...
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EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “Turtles” Conquer “Guardians”

  There was general glee last weekend when Guardians of the Galaxy overperformed to a record-breaking degree, proving that audiences could appreciate a blockbuster that was a cut above the rest.  The rejoicing is likely t...
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Archive

THE BIJOU @ TIFF: “Hick”

> Derick Martini’s HICK is like a Sundance movie that took the wrong indie-film exit and wound up in Toronto.  For whatever reason, Toronto’s film festival tends to find itself with fewer stories of young peopl...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Articles

THE SKED’S NIELSENWAR – Week 4

. We’re 4 full weeks into the season, and it’s time to ask:  What do we know now that we didn’t know a week ago? Reruns Are Bad.  In the past few days, ABC has ordered extra episodes of GREY’S ANATOMY,...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “War Horse”

  WAR HORSE:  Watch It At Home –  Spielberg’s Beautiful Muzak   Earlier this year, audiences were presented with Super 8, J. J. Abrams’s pastiche of Steven Spielberg’s classic sci-fi adventures f...
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SHOWBUZZDAILY MONDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 10.9.2017

  VALOR showed little grace under fire. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary key advertiser demographics (adult 18-34, 18-49 and 25-54 ratings), audience s...
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Articles

THE SKED: Tuesday Ratings – Network Scorecard – 11/1/11

> Isn’t Sweeps supposed to be when viewers watch more TV? FOX:  The post-baseball hangover continues.  After Terra Nova and House struck out at the plate on Monday night, the Tuesday line-up came to bat and didn...
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Reviews

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “Falling Skies”

  FALLING SKIES:  Sunday 10PM on TNT FALLING SKIES had a premise that seemed like it should be able to run indefinitely:  a war against alien invaders fought mostly on the ground, as an allegory of the US Revolutionary W...
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CHRISTMAS EVE BOX OFFICE UPDATE

: Because Christmas Day falls on a Sunday, box office figures are incomplete this morning.  As is usually the case with Christmas Eve, business was down across the board yesterday, and if we look to 2011 as a guide, the Sunday...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Pilot + 1

THE SKED Pilot + 1 Review: “Brooklyn Nine-Nine”

  BROOKLYN NINE-NINE:  Tuesday 8:30PM on FOX Previously… on BROOKLYN NINE-NINE:  Fun and games in a Brooklyn police precinct.  Jake Peralta (Andy Samberg) is the ace detective who solves crimes but is happily slov...
by Mitch Salem
 
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