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The Return of Box Office – 8.23.2020

  What are we to make of the first meaningful box office numbers to come our way since March?  The area is a landscape of spin in the best of times, and these of course are not those.  Other than drive-ins, heatres remai...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY HOLIDAY WEEKEND BOXOFFICE SCORECARD – 9/3/12

  OPENINGS:  Everything stayed pretty much as is after Monday’s estimates were released.  THE POSSESSION (Lionsgate) has the #2 Labor Day 4-day opening weekend with $21.3M.  LAWLESS (Weinstein Company) is trying ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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BEHIND THE WEEKEND BOX OFFICE – 3/9/14

  OPENINGS:  Despite frontloading that led to an 8% Saturday drop, 300: RISE OF AN EMPIRE (Warners/Legendary) is claiming a very low 30% decline on Sunday in order to report a $45.1M weekend.  We’ll see if that num...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY Film Review: “Noah”

  NOAH:  Worth A Ticket –The Word According to Darren Aronofsky When Darren Aronofsky decided to follow Black Swan, the biggest hit of his career, with the story of Noah and the Ark, it seemed like a perverse choice...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED: ABC Gets Started

  The Alphabet has begun its process of setting things up for next week’s Upfronts by renewing all the shows everyone knew would be renewed:  MODERN FAMILY, GREY’S ANATOMY, THE MIDDLE, CASTLE, DANCING WITH THE...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED Pilot + 1 Review: “Chasing Life”

  CHASING LIFE:  Tuesday 9PM on ABCFamily Previously… on CHASING LIFE:  Very inconveniently, 24-year old aspiring Boston reporter April Carver (Italia Ricci) has just been diagnosed with leukemia.  The timing coul...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Ballers”

  The ratings for BALLERS have more than justified its renewal by HBO, but the pieces of the series have yet to fit together.  Most of the show’s creative team hails from Entourage, and Ballers embraces the same bim...
by Mitch Salem
 
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UPDATED: THE SKED CABLE/NETWORK SCORECARD – 4/7/14

  AFTERNOON UPDATE:  The NCAA FINALS adjusted up to 7.2 in final numbers, but that was still significantly down from last year’s 8.4.  What time zone adjustment giveth it also taketh away, and that BIG BANG THEORY reru...
by Mitch Salem
 
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UPDATED: THE SKED CABLE/NETWORK SCORECARD – 1/29/14

  AFTERNOON UPDATE:  Both CW shows edged up 0.1 in final numbers, giving ARROW a 1.1 and THE TOMORROW PEOPLE a healthy (for it) 0.7.  SVU also climbed 0.1 to 2.0, the first time it’s hit that mark in a while. WEDNESDAY...
by Mitch Salem
 
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EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “Krampus” Comes To Town On Slow Post-Holiday Weekend

  We’re in the 2-week void between Thanksgiving and the Awakening of the Force, and the low-budget KRAMPUS (Legendary/Universal) is the weekend’s only major studio arrival.  According to preliminary numbers at...
by Mitch Salem
 
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EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “Hobbit” Leaps; “Annie” and “Museum” OK; “Inherent Vice” Stalls

  After a sub-par Thursday, preliminary numbers at Deadline have THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES (New Line/MGM/Warners) surging to $16.1M on Friday.  If that number holds, it will be a tremendous 62% jump from T...
by Mitch Salem
 
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The Sked

The Sked: MAY SWEEP UPDATE (through 4 nights)

>With four nights of the May Sweep in (Thursday’s official ratings and Friday-Sunday’s fast national ratings), here’s an early look at the final major ratings sweep period of the broadcast season, when ratings...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED’S MONDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 5/14/12

    A night for departures and arrivals..   CBS:  The 1-hour season finale of HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER (which disclosed not The Mother, but Barney’s wife) was up from recent episodes at 3.6, also better than ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY WEDNESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 10.3.2018

  Declines and disappointments. 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), audi...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Tuesday 12.27.2022 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  Reruns at 0.56/0.25/0.19. CBS:  Reruns at 0.39/0.29/0.25. NBC:  THE WHEEL was down 0.03 from last Tuesday to 0.30, followed by reruns at 0.24/0.22/0.18. FOX:  Reruns at 0.18/0.14. CW:  OCEAN E...
by Mitch Salem
 
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