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SHOWBUZZDAILY FRIDAY BOXOFFICE SCORECARD – 3/30/12

> Frontloading strikes again. THE HUNGER GAMES (Lionsgate/Summit), with $18.9M on its 2nd Friday, is behaving like a sequel, even though it isn’t one.  It’s down 72% from opening day, which is consistent with t...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Sunday 3.13.2022 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  AMERICA’S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS fell 0.24 to 0.61, AMERICAN IDOL lost 0.11 to 0.95, and THE ROOKIE was down 0.13 to 0.38. CBS:  60 MINUTES rose 0.11 to 0.73, THE EQUALIZER edged up 0.02 to 0...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED’S THURSDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 1/26/12

> AMERICAN IDOL‘s best days are behind it. FOX:  Idol gave FOX an easy win for the night, but it continues to be 30% below last season, and last night dipped 0.3 from its first Thursday.  It appears as though th...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED’S MONDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 4/9/12

> SMASHWatch has plenty of company in Season Low City. NBC: For the past 2 weeks, SMASH‘s initial rating has declined in the final daily numbers. So although right now it’s at its 3rd consecutive 2.1 rating, a drop ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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The Sked: Monday Ratings 9.26.2016

  All the non-Debate programming was quite steady. 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),...
by Mitch Salem
 
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The Sked

The Sked: PROMO WATCH — through Thursday October 20

> With its schedule in the #1 position and no new shows to launch, CBS had plenty of time to maintain its current schedule and celebrate the 60th anniversary of the CBS Eye logo throughout the night with brief montages of The E...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY MONDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 7.13.2020

  OK results for an awards show clip show. 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 rat...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED Season Finale Review: “Faking It”

  MTV’s FAKING IT did a surprisingly deft job of sustaining its limited premise over 8 half-hour episodes–until, at least, the last 30 seconds of the season fell victim to a bad case of Season Finale-itis, reac...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “The Walking Dead”

  THE WALKING DEAD:  Sunday 9PM on AMC THE WALKING DEAD has never been prized for its subtlety, and it didn’t attempt any with the title of its crossroads Season 9 premiere:  “A New Beginning.”  Which ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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UPDATED: THE SKED CABLE/NETWORK MONDAY SCORECARD – 7/14/14 (Now With New Demographic Detail)

  NETWORK UPDATE:  MISTRESSES and the rerun THE BIG BANG THEORY both went up 0.1 from this morning’s numbers. MONDAY CABLE:  ESPN’s coverage of the All-Star HOME RUN DERBY took the night at 2.1–even the...
by Mitch Salem
 
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UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Tuesday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 5.30.2017

        NETWORK FINALS:  AMERICA’S GOT TALENT and the LETHAL WEAPON rerun gained 0.1, and IMAGINARY MARY lost 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Rat...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED’S SUNDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 11/4/12

Bad news in Animation Domination land. FOX:  Thanks to baseball, FOX’s animated slate has been off the air for several weeks.  Absence, it appears, didn’t make the viewers hearts fonder.  On the first Sunday sinc...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Saturday 1.21.2023 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED

  BROADCAST FINALS:  The NFL PLAYOFFS were of course dominant, with 7.70 for NBC’s afternoon game, and 8.00 for FOX in primetime.  Back on NBC, the first SNL of 2023 was at 0.98.  ABC simulcast UFC with ESPN, and ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY Pilot + 1 Review: “The Player”

  THE PLAYER:  Thursday 10PM on NBC Previously… on THE PLAYER:  Alex Kane (Philip Winchester), former government agent, soldier and security consultant, was recruited by a shadowy, sociopathic, all-knowing organiza...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “The Flash”

  Did we really need THE FLASH to go dark?  What had been the peppiest of CW’s DC/Berlanti-verse shows spent its 3rd season marked by existential angst, 22 episodes of Barry Allen’s (Grant Gustin) penance for ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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