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THE SKED’S TUESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 4/30/13

  NBC shook things up last night, to mixed effect. NBC:  A 2-hour THE VOICE hurt the 9PM competition, but resulted in a 3.7 for itself, the lowest Voice rating in weeks (down 0.4 from last Tuesday).  Putting GRIMM at 1...
by Mitch Salem
 
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The Sked: PROMO WATCH — through Monday October 24

>Grimm is now up to 220 promo seconds over the last week.  The good news is that the network is standing behind the show and giving it all it has to give.  The bad news is that all that time is in little-watched progr...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Cougar Town”

  COUGAR TOWN survived its trip from ABC to the wilds of cable, as well as the day-to-day departure of series co-creator and original showrunner Bill Lawrence, with its charms mostly intact, even if the show is starting to...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 6.4.2017

  OPENINGS:  WONDER WOMAN (RatPac/Wanda/Ten Cent/DC/Warners) is a big win with $100.5M in the US, and for the DC franchise, the 93% at Rotten Tomatoes may be almost as important a number.  It’s also worth noting th...
by Mitch Salem
 
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US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office Report – 10.4.2020

  OPENINGS:  There were no new wide openings this weekend, and with the postponement of No Time To Die until 2021, and the announcement that Regal Theaters may be re-closing some or all of its houses, it’s not clear...
by Mitch Salem
 
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EARLY WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: “Dumb and Dumber To” Outsmarts “Big Hero 6″”

  Belying its title, DUMB AND DUMBER TO (Red Granite/Universal) picked a strategically smart weekend to debut, facing very little fresh competition (because of last weekend’s Big Hero 6/Interstellar double bill and n...
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THE SKED: “American Horror Story” Ratings Moderately Scary

> Ratings for last night’s premiere of AMERICAN HORROR STORY on FX are promising, if not overwhelming.  The show’s 10PM initial airing was watched by about 2 million people 18-49, which should equal something l...
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The Sked: PROMO WATCH — through Sunday October 23

>NBC has given Grimm 205 promo seconds over the last week, a level that will be maintained or even increased throughout this week, leading up to the Friday launch.  NBC has to be encouraged by the 3.9 rating for the premie...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Anonymous”

  ANONYMOUS:  Watch It At Home – The Bard Was A Beard, Claims Wheezy Expose   ANONYMOUS is history tailored for the 1%. Although screenwriter John Orloff and director Roland Emmerich have swirled it into a comp...
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THE SKED: CS-Impressive

> Just in case NBC’s creative failure to effectively repopulate SVU this season weren’t already glaringly obvious, CBS continues to show how it’s supposed to be done with their recasting on CSI, where theyR...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “The Red Line”

  THE RED LINE:  Sunday 8PM on CBS CBS waited until the final few weeks of the regular broadcast season to do something very un-CBS:  over the next 4 Sundays, it will air all 8 hours of the limited series THE RED LINE, a...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 5/31/15

  OPENINGS:  SAN ANDREAS (Village Roadshow/RatPac Dune/New Line/Warners) had a solid 13% Saturday bump that propelled it to a $53.2M weekend, significantly above expectations–and with no direct competition arriving ...
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THE SKED: SMASHWatch Update – Back To Even

> Don’t get too excited about that increase in SMASH‘s 18-49 rating last night, because it just vanished.  In the final Nielsen numbers, Smash came back down to the same 2.3 number it had last week.  (Cast...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THURSDAY NIGHT BOX OFFICE: “Captain America” To the Rescue

  The US box office has started humming for CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER (Disney), which brought in $10.2M in shows that began at 8PM last night.  That’s considerably better than the $7.1M that Thor: The Dark...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED’S THURSDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 2/9/12

> Unfortunately for NBC, there are other nights in the week besides Monday. NBC:  The gradual season-long collapse of THE OFFICE continued last night, as the show’s 2.5 hit not just a season low, but its lowest ratin...
by Mitch Salem
 
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