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SHOWBUZZDAILY FILM REVIEW: “The Internship”

  THE INTERNSHIP:  Watch It At Home – No Search Engine Necessary To Predict the Plot Vince Vaughn has been playing his motormouth-with-a-heart-of-gold character pretty much non-stop since Swingers in 1996.  That...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

UPDATED: THE SKED CABLE/NETWORK SCORECARD – 3/14/14

  UPDATE:  SHARK TANK climbed another 0.1 to 2.0, while there were 0.1 drops for THE NEIGHBORS, UNDERCOVER BOSS, ENLISTED (giving FOX triple 0.5s across the night), BLUE BLOODS and DATELINE. FRIDAY CABLE:  GOLD RUSH (Dis...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

WEEKDAY BOX OFFICE UPDATE JUNE 6-7: Updated

> X-Men First Class started its first weekday period with a solid 19% of opening weekend between Monday and Tuesday.  A good sign for longer term playability. The X-Men reboot earned $10.5 million Monday-Tuesday, represent...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED: Showtime Premiere Dates

  It’s Showtime’s turn at TCA, so along with announcing some series pick-ups (Happyish with Philips Seymour Hoffman, and the probably self-explanatory The Affair), some premiere dates were unveiled. On Sunday, ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE BIJOU: Early Boxoffice Report – 9/10/11

> Deadline has some early Friday boxoffice numbers, and the news was good for CONTAGION and its maybe-I’m-retiring-and-maybe-I’m-not director Steven Soderbergh:  an $8M opening day that should lead to a weekend...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “On Chesil Beach” & “Loveless”

  ON CHESIL BEACH (no distrib):  Ian McEwan’s longish novella/shortish novel has been adapted by McEwan himself into a fluid and extremely English film, the first feature directed by stage director Dominic Cooke.  ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

BEHIND THE WEEKEND BOXOFFICE – 2/10/13

  OPENINGS:  Melissa McCarthy is now a genuine Hollywood player with the enormous debut of IDENTITY THIEF (Universal), beating all pre-release estimates with $36.6M.  (Take that, Rex Reed!)  Apart from Universal, the ha...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

OSCARLAND: The Golden Globes – Instant Analysis

  Putting aside the question of whether the Golden Globes actually deserve to be considered important (hardly anyone not actively campaigning for their votes would know a Hollywood Foreign Press Association voter if they f...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

UPDATED: THE SKED CABLE/NETWORK FRIDAY SCORECARD – 7/4/14

  NETWORK UPDATE:  WHAT WOULD YOU DO? slipped 0.1 to 0.5. FRIDAY CABLE:  There was hardly any regular series programming on July 4th.  ESPN’s WORLD CUP coverage, as detailed in our WORLD CUP SKEDBALL post, provide...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Mad Men”

  There was hardly a moment in Season 6 of MAD MEN when Don Draper (Jon Hamm) seemed to feel comfortable in his own skin.  Oh sure, he could gather up some venom when he had the chance to cut colleague Ted Chaough (Kevin ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY SUMMER MOVIE SCHEDULE MUSICAL CHAIRS

  Today Paramount announced that its upcoming sequel GI JOE:  RETALIATION won’t be opening on June 29 after all, but will instead be pushed to March 2013.  The studio would like you to know that this in no way, abs...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “The Affair”

  It’s difficult, even after a full and absorbing season, to know exactly what to make of THE AFFAIR.  The series hasn’t fit neatly into either of the genres it seemed to be invoking:  despite the title and o...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY THURSDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 4.18.2019

  LIFE IN PIECES had a subdued set of premieres. 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-...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED’S MONDAY NETWORK SCORECARDj j- 11/21/11

> Don’t get too attached to those CG dinosaurs. FOX:  TERRA NOVA barely bothers with those creatures these days anyway, being more concerned with dull conspiracies among humans (points to anyone who can figure out wh...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Monday 6.27.2022 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  Reruns at 0.47/0.50/0.42. CBS:  Reruns at 0.36/0.32/0.24/0.25. NBC:  AMERICAN NINJA WARRIOR ticked up to 0.39, and WEAKEST LINK was down 0.03 to 0.35. FOX:  DON’T FORGET THE LYRICS ticked...
by Mitch Salem