THE BIJOU REVIEW: “Margin Call”
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
THE SKED Fall Pilot Report: ABC’S “Manhattan Love Story”
MANHATTAN LOVE STORY: Tuesday 8:30PM on ABC starting September 30 – Change the Channel PLAYERS: Series creator Jeff Lowell, who’s been a writer/producer on sitcoms going back to Cybill two decades ago, bu...
THE SKED Season Premiere Review: “Psych”
PSYCH: Wednesday 10PM on USA It’s sort of fitting that PSYCH, a show now a little past its prime, kicked off its 8th and perhaps final season with a parody of late 1990s Guy Ritchie lad thrillers like Lock, Stock...
THE SKED’S MONDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 6/25/12
Some people actually watched network TV last night. NBC: US OLYMPIC TRIALS were 3rd place in their hour again, despite a Michael Phelps swimming showdown (which he lost). However, AMERICA’S GOT TALENT and AMERICAN NIN...
SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “Dominion”
DOMINION: Thursday 10PM on Syfy This summer, long-suffering USA and Lifetime finally succeeded in airing image-changing original series with Mr. Robot and UnReal. Syfy, though, still dwells in the desert where most o...
SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Thursday 7.7.2022 Top 150 Cable Originals UPDATED with Broadcast
BROADCAST FINALS ABC: A night of premieres, with PRESS YOUR LUCK at 0.41, GENERATION GAP at 0.46, and FATAL FLAW at 0.23. CBS: Reruns at 0.26/0.20/0.23/0.19/0.21. NBC: Reruns at 0.23/0.28/0.22. FOX: Reruns at 0.2...
THE SKED PILOT REVIEW: “The Originals”
Planted spin-off pilots are almost always awkward, and THE ORIGINALS, which aired as an episode of The Vampire Diaries, was no exception. The timing of Originals was particularly odd in the Vampire universe, because it...
SHOWBUZZDAILY SUNDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 11.4.2018
A big night for football. 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 ratings), audience...
SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Run”
HBO’s RUN turned out to be a treatise on the limitations of the elevator pitch. Everything about the show that could be described between the lobby of an office building and, say, its 20th floor (let’s assu...
Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 7.8.2018
OPENINGS: ANT-MAN & THE WASP (Marvel/Disney) turned out to be rather front-loaded, with a 30% Saturday drop (compared to 14% for the 2nd day of Ant-Man). That pushed the studio weekend estimate down to $76M, whic...
SHOWBUZZDAILY SUNDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 7.21.2019
A partial rebound for ABC. 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 ratings), audienc...
OSCARS MINUS 1: Final Predictions and Hopes
We’re less than 24 hours away from that exciting moment when the first negative tweet about Seth McFarlane’s performance as this year’s Oscar host appears, so it’s time to go all-in and make some ...
US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office Report – 11.1.2020
OPENINGS: The only new wide release on Halloween weekend was the low-budget horror movie COME PLAY (Focus/Universal), which was relatively impressive compared to last week’s $1.3M for Empty Man with $3.2M. It s...
THE SKED: The (Last) Return of “Entourage” and Cable Sundays
> On summer Sunday nights, the 4 broadcast networks air a grand total of zero hours of original scripted programming; instead, viewers get a strict diet of animated repeats (FOX) and unscripted series like Big Brother (CBS), Am...
BEHIND THE FRIDAY BOX OFFICE – 7/19/13
OPENINGS: THE CONJURING (Warners) is off to a great start with a $17M opening day (including $3.3M from Thursday evening), but its real test comes today. Horror movies tend to be very frontloaded and plunge on their ...