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THE SKED: “Breaking” Spectacular (Except In the Ratings)

> Creatively, last night’s season finale of BREAKING BAD was extraordinary in almost every way (how long till the final 16 episodes start airing?).  In the ratings, according to TV By the Numbers it did quite well, b...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

UPDATED: THE SKED CABLE/NETWORK SCORECARD – 2/17/14

  UPDATE: Per expectations, the WINTER OLYMPICS adjusted to a 5.6 rating on Monday (Nielsen is still behind, recovering from the horror of dealing with a regular national holiday).  ALMOST HUMAN gained 0.1 to hit 1.7, tying t...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “Think Too” OK, “Jersey Boys” Off-Key

  This is going to be a soft weekend at the box office, since studios are largely saying out of the way of next week’s Transformers behemoth.  Based on preliminary numbers at Deadline and elsewhere, THINK LIKE ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY MONDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 9.17.2018

  THE EMMYS held its early number. 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 skews ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Agents of SHIELD”

  The Season 2 finale of Agents of SHIELD was the show trying its very, very hardest–and still not hitting the mark.  A great deal of work has gone into rescuing Agents since it plummeted from the heights of its eno...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE BIJOU: Early Friday Boxoffice – 9/16/11

> The Hollywood Reporter has early Friday numbers, and they foretell some surprises for the weekend boxoffice.  Chief among them is the remarkable $7-8M that the 3D pre-Blu-Ray reissue of Disney’s THE LION KING gross...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED’S BUSTED PILOT THEATRE: “Little In Common”

> See A Word About Busted Pilots  The double meaning of “little” in the title of Fox’s busted sitcom pilot LITTLE IN COMMON is that the 3 couples at its center are brought together only because their resp...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY FILM REVIEW: “The Lone Ranger”

  THE LONE RANGER:  Not Even For Free – The Silver Bullet Is Self-Inflicted Disney’s reluctance to produce THE LONE RANGER is well-documented; the studio even shut down the production shortly before shooting w...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

“THE TREE OF LIFE” – God, Man & Terrence Malick

> Worth A Ticket; An often stupendous achievement that courts ridicule–and sometimes earns it. Terrence Malick’s THE TREE OF LIFE is at once the filmmaker’s most emotionally grounded and dizzyingly ambitious f...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED’S TUESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 6/26/12

Talent and cooking, cooking and talent–what network audiences want this summer. NBC:  AMERICA’S GOT TALENT was the dominant show of the evening with a 3.2.  The rest of the schedule was below a 2 (1.9 for more US ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 11.3.2019

  OPENINGS:  The entertainment business revolves these days around IP, but not all franchises are created equal, and there turned out to be a thunderous lack of interest in TERMINATOR: DARK FATE (Skydance/Tencent/20th/Dis...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED’S WEDNESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 4/11/12

>Don't trust the premiere rating. ABC: If DON'T TRUST THE B– IN APT 23 can continue to retain 70% of its MODERN FAMILY lead-in, it'll be a comfortable win. Now that its premiere marketing blitz is over, we'...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY WEDNESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 9.27.2017

  The key word of the night:  Down. 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 skew...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Agent Carter”

  The signs are foreboding for AGENT CARTER:  not only have the Season 2 ratings gone from lukewarm to frigid, but star Hayley Atwell has signed for another ABC pilot (although since the same studio and network are involv...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED @ PALEYFEST 2012: “Mad Men” (POP CULTURE APOCALYPSE MINUS 11)

> The season premiere episode of MAD MEN wasn’t screened at PaleyFest tonight.   Although the show airs a week from Sunday and virtually every other PaleyFest honoree screened an upcoming episode of its series, ...
by Mitch Salem