THE SKED @ PALEYFEST 2013: “Revolution”
REVOLUTION showrunner/creator Eric Kripke said a lot of the right things at tonight’s PaleyFest session for his show. Kripke told the crowd that with the series universe having been established, when the show ret...
UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY WEEKEND BOXOFFICE SCORECARD – 4/22/12
> OPENINGS: THINK LIKE A MAN (Screen Gems/Sony) ran away with the weekend, with a $33M opening that beat every Tyler Perry start except Madea Goes To Jail. Perry’s movies tend to be quite frontloaded, ending u...
BEHIND THE WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: 9/29/13
OPENINGS: Once it became clear that the predicted $40M wasn’t going to happen, CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2 (Sony) badly wanted to claim a $35M opening, and so it did. Actually hitting that number will ...
Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 11/15/15
OPENINGS: LOVE THE COOPERS (CBS/Lionsgate) was the best of a bad bunch, launching with $8.4M. That’s 30% less than the $12.5M start of 2005’s The Family Stone, but the studio can take some solace from the...
SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “Training Day”
TRAINING DAY: Thursday 10PM on CBS – Change the Channel If the idea that CBS, of all networks, could turn the dark, ruthless police drama TRAINING DAY into a TV series seemed counterintuitive–well, they hav...
UPDATED: THE SKED CABLE/NETWORK SCORECARD – 2/19/14
AFTERNOON UPDATE: NBC wasn’t able to exclude the 8PM half-hour of its WINTER OLYMPICS coverage, and consequently its rating stayed at 5.0, just barely above the 2d-lowest night of Turin And without getting too ...
SHOWBUZZDAILY EARLY WEEKEND BOXOFFICE REPORT – 7/7/12
No major surprises in the Saturday boxoffice numbers, according to preliminary figures at Deadline. THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (Sony) is reporting a solid 18% Friday-to-Saturday bump, better than the 13% that Transformers ...
THE SKED 2013 UPFRONTS: NBC Trailer – “Ironside”
We’re continuing our look at NBC’s crop of trailers for its fall shows (apart from The Blacklist, the network doesn’t seem to be releasing pieces for its midseason series right now), and next up is the ...
THE SKED: Thoughts on ABC’s Schedule (and Our Predictions)
> WHAT WE LIKE: Tuesday has been screaming for more comedy. While Fox has had some success on the night with Raising Hope, both ABC and NBC have very strong histories on the night with comedy blocks. With NBC ...
THE SKED Review: “Saturday Night Live” with Andy Samberg
It was inevitable that with Andy Samberg returning to SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE as host, tonight’s season finale would have the feel of an SNL class reunion. The cameo guests were indeed plentiful: Bill Hader, Kriste...
THE SKED’S WEDNESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 4/18/12
> Viewers didn’t flee from The B—. ABC: DON’T TRUST THE B— IN APT 23 held almost the same proportion of the MODERN FAMILY audience as it did with last week’s premiere (and a slightly higher p...
GOLDEN GLOBES LIVE-BLOG
Note: All times PST 5:01PM: Wasting no time, here’s Ricky Gervais with his first monologue since the very different world of 2016. 5:02PM: Not exactly testing the limits with jokes about “Wild Hogs...
Box Office Footnotes – 7/2/11
> After a nice Friday bump, TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON took a small step backwards yesterday, with a lower % of increase than either of its predecessors had on their first Saturdays. As Mitch Metcalf noted in hi...
THE SKED 2013 UPFRONTS: NBC Trailer – “Dracula”
NBC’s one slightly surprising choice for the fall schedule was DRACULA, not because it doesn’t fit with its Grimm lead-in, but just that its straight-to-series order had been somewhat under the radar in the b...