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Our Review / 5 - Terrible
THE SKED: Sunday Ratings – Network Scorecard – 10/16/11
> On a night when the most interesting rating is likely to be on cable (the return of Walking Dead on AMC), there wasn’t much good news for any broadcast network. ABC: ONCE UPON A TIME is premiering 8PM next Sunday,...
THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Suburgatory”
SUBURGATORY: Wednesday 9:30PM on ABC WHERE WE WERE: Meeting Grandma. In the season finale, having survived her first year in the titular Chatswin, Tessa (Jane Levy) met her long-absent mother’s mom–on M...
SHOWBUZZDAILY TUESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 5.31.2016
MAYA & MARTY was helped by a strong lead-in. 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),...
SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Mothering Sunday,” “Petite Maman” & “All My Puny Sorrows”
MOTHERING SUNDAY (Sony Classics – Nov 19): Eva Husson’s film, adapted by Alice Birch from a Graham Swift novel, has many of the rote trappings of prestige costume drama. We’re back in the English co...
SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Finale Review: “Nashville”
Despite the fact that the producers didn’t know if the Season 4 finale of NASHVILLE would be the end of the series when it was written (and lead studio Lionsgate, in fact, is still trying to sell the show to anothe...
The Sked: Monday Ratings 12.26.2016
Note: ABC numbers below inflated significantly by two major pre-emptions for NFL Monday Night Football in Dallas (on WFAA) and Detroit (on WXYZ). DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart belo...
SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “The Sinner”
USA’s THE SINNER was a genuine if moderate sleeper of this summer’s TV season, not a breakout hit but consistently rating ahead of its lead-in, the veteran Suits, and it’s not entirely clear why. The ...
THE SKED’S WEDNESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 2/1/12
> Question for the class: are the travails of AMERICAN IDOL and THE X FACTOR good or bad for NBC’s THE VOICE? Discuss among yourselves for the next 4 days. FOX: It’s becoming a familiar song: ...
UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Friday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 7.10.2020
NETWORK FINALS: There were no changes from the preliminary Friday ratings. Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart CABLE HIGHLIGHTS: Cable news won an...
ShowbuzzDaily Sundance 2022 Reviews: “Emily the Criminal” & “blood”
EMILY THE CRIMINAL (no distrib): John Patton Ford’s feature debut is a lean, gritty, accomplished thriller with a smashing star performance from Aubrey Plaza. Plaza (who also produced) plays the titular Emily, ...
UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Tuesday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 8.2.2016
NETWORK FINALS: AMERICA’S GOT TALENT gained 0.1 in final numbers, but the 2d hour of COUPLED and the full CW line-up (both episodes of WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY and MADTV) lost the same. CABLE ...
SHOWBUZZDAILY FILM REVIEW: “Endless Love”
ENDLESS LOVE: Not Even For Free – Hopeless Wreck Truly: why does this new ENDLESS LOVE exist? Even on the crassest commercial level, it makes very little sense. The 1981 Franco Zeffirelli/Brooke Shields/Mar...
SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “Dead of Summer”
DEAD OF SUMMER: Tuesday 9PM on Freeform – If Nothing Else Is On… Freeform’s DEAD OF SUMMER arrives with A-list auspices. Two of its co-creators, Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz, are also the creator...
THE SKED’s Fall TV Ratings Predictions – Friday
We’ve arrived at Friday in our tour of the fall primetime schedule, and former head of NBC Scheduling Mitch Metcalf, former head of NBC Current Programming Ted Frank and I have our predictions ready. (Here are ou...