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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 6.9.2024

  OPENINGS:  Hollywood breathed a collective sign of relief as BAD BOYS: RIDE OR DIE (Columbia/Sony) arrived moderately above expectations with $56M.  That was down just 10% from 2019’s Bad Boys For Life (although ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY FILM REVIEW: “The Conjuring”

  THE CONJURING:  Worth A Ticket – Retro Horror, In A Good Way Watching The Exorcist recently, for the first time in probably a decade, the most striking thing about it was its insistence on a palpable, sometimes do...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY THURSDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 8.2.2018

  Football returned. 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 (women 18-49, ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED Network Ratings Scorecard – 9/27/13

  Nothing hit a 2 rating on the first Friday of the new season. CBS:  HAWAII 5-0 had an underwhelming Friday debut with 1.5, down 0.3 from last year’s Monday start.  It was even with the premiere of UNDERCOVER BOSS...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED NETWORK SCORECARD – 4/17/14

  Some shows said farewell to their seasons more effectively than others. ABC:  SCANDAL had its biggest season finale to date, up 0.4 from last week to 3.4 and (with Big Bang Theory in reruns) easily the highest-rated sho...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

The Sked: World Series Forecast

>World Series Game 6 is scheduled to start at 8 pm ET tonight on FOX in St Louis, but the weather might be an issue.  The National Weather Service is predicting an 80% chance of rain tonight there with winds gusting to 22 ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED: CBS Renewals

  There wasn’t much tumult expected in the CBS 2013-14 schedule, especially since The Eye will be this season’s #1 network, and today the most of its line-up was renewed (and a couple of others were omitted jus...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

BEHIND THE FRIDAY BOXOFFICE – 4/19/13

  OPENINGS:  OBLIVION (Universal) had a fairly good start, with a $13.3M Thursday night/Friday that should give it a $35-38M weekend, depending on word of mouth.  But that’s still lower than the $15.3M earned by GI...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED Review: “Saturday Night Live” with Andrew Garfield

  When inspiration hit this week’s SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, it came from an unexpected direction.  African-American staff writer Leslie Jones, who isn’t an official cast member, pretty much blew the doors off Week...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “How To Get Away With Murder”

  HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER is an edifice built on two foundations:  the acting of Viola Davis as the show’s brilliant and complex criminal attorney Annalise Keating, and the ability of series creator Peter Nowalk...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “Black Panther” A Super Hero Indeed

  BLACK PANTHER (Marvel/Disney) is, in a word, colossal.  According to preliminary numbers at Deadline, opening day was $76.6M (including $25.2M from Thursday night), which would make it the #8 opening day of all time, an...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “Taboo”

  TABOO:  Tuesday 10PM on FX – Potential DVR Alert It may be that Tom Hardy will join Clive Owen and Michael Fassbinder among British leading men who never quite became the global superstars they seemed meant to be....
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED’S TUESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 2/5/13

Smash = Moose Murders. NBC:  Despite enormous, and well-publicized, behind the scenes changes, and weeks of intensive, expensive marketing, NBC couldn’t convince viewers to give SMASH another chance, and the Season 2 pre...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

The Sked: PROMO WATCH — Update through Thursday October 13

>ABC’s Sunday dramas were the priority in last night’s Private Practice, although Pan Am remains in the middle of the pack of the ranking, looking at the entire week.  This would have to be considered a “...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Pilot + 1 Review: “American Crime”

  AMERICAN CRIME:  Thursday 10PM on ABC Previously… on AMERICAN CRIME:  In Modesto, California, former serviceman Matt Skokie was murdered in his home, and his wife Gwen was viciously injured in the attack.  The l...
by Mitch Salem