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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 10.27.2024

  OPENINGS:  With an assortment of excuses (the World Series!  a video game release!  Halloween!  birthday parties?!?), VENOM: THE LAST DANCE (Marvel/Columbia/Sony) tottered to $51M in the US, down 43% from 2021’...
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THE SKED: FOX

> THOUGHTS ON THE FOX SCHEDULE (AND OUR PREDICTIONS) FOX COMEDIES FOX DRAMAS ABC ANALYSIS     CBS ANALYSIS     NBC ANALYSIS     FOX ANALYSIS     CW ANALYSIS
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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Wanderlust”

      WANDERLUST:  Watch It At Home – Hippy Jokes Thawed Out From 1966   The new WANDERLUST demonstrates the strengths and limitations of amiability in movies.  Its stars, Jennifer Aniston and Paul R...
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THE SKED Season Premiere Review: “Once Upon A Time”

  ONCE UPON A TIME:  Sunday 8PM on ABC The Season 3 premiere of ONCE UPON A TIME didn’t step foot in Storybrooke, nor did it feature any flashbacks to pre-curse incarnations of the protagonists.  Whether this was a...
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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace”

  If Ryan Murphy’s goal with the second season of AMERICAN CRIME STORY was to demonstrate the breadth of the show’s anthology branding, not just in subject matter but in style and structure–unlike the rel...
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THE SKED Season Finale Review: “Boardwalk Empire”

  It’s a continuing paradox that a show could have as many colorful characters, so terrific a cast, as much plot and incident and history (not to mention sex and violence) and visual style as BOARDWALK EMPIRE does an...
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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Monday 8.1.2022 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC;  THE BACHELORETTE slipped 0.02 to 0.72, and CLAIM TO FAME was up 0.02 to 0.39. CBS:  Reruns at 0.28/0.26/0.24/0.25. NBC:  AMERICAN NINJA WARRIOR gained 0.02 to 0.37, followed by a WEAKEST LINK re...
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The Sked: Tuesday Ratings 1.10.2017

  President Obama’s farewell address may lead to adjustments in final numbers. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary key advertiser demographics (adul...
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THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “The Mindy Project”

  THE MINDY PROJECT has spent much of its first season shambling toward what kind of show it wants to be, but its struggles have become progressively more entertaining to watch. Mindy started with an enormous amount of goo...
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EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “X-Men: Apocalypse” Underwhelms, “Alice 2″” Flops

  Franchises are the lifeblood of Hollywood, so it has to chill studios to see three of those entries falter in a single 2-weekend period, especially since the stakes are higher for this week’s arrivals than last wee...
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THE SKED Season Premiere Review: “Banshee”

  BANSHEE:  Friday 10PM on Cinemax Cinemax’s gonzo-grindhouse extravaganza BANSHEE is back for its second season, seeming to flow directly from the ids of sensitive rom-com/dram novelist Jonathan Tropper and his fel...
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NIELSENWAR: Bring Out Your Dead! NBC Executes “Bad Judge” and “A To Z”

  After last night’s atrocious 0.9/0.7 pairing, it was clear that the writing on the wall for NBC’s BAD JUDGE and A TO Z was scrawled in blood.  The network chose Halloween afternoon to announce the burials. ...
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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “Game of Thrones”

  GAME OF THRONES:  Sunday 9PM on HBO There’s intrigue behind the cameras as well as in front of them on GAME OF THRONES these days.  Series creators/showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss have let it be known th...
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THE SKED’S WEDNESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 11/23/11

> The night before Thanksgiving has an odd balance:  viewership is down, but advertiser interest is up (anyone who watched primetime last night was buried under retailer promos for Black Friday sales)–hence, original...
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US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office Report – 1.17.2021

  OPENINGS:  THE MARKSMAN (Open Road) allows Liam Neeson to lay claim to being the most prolific movie star of the pandemic, following on the releases of Honest Thief and the smaller-scale Made In Italy.  Despite a holid...
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