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SHOWBUZZDAILY TUESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 1.31.2017

  Last night’s live Supreme Court announcement may lead to some adjustments this afternoon. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary key advertiser demog...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Sunday 5.7.2023 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  The last time AMERICA’S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS aired 2 weeks ago, it had an NFL Playoffs game as lead-in, so the 0.17 drop to 0.49 has an explanation.  AMERICAN IDOL gained 0.03 to 0.77, and ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED: Evil Abed Wins After All

  The word, the buzz, the gossip were all true:  COMMUNITY was renewed for a 4th season, but Dan Harmon has been kicked off the show as its Executive Producer/Showrunner.  (He’ll still be credited as some variation...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Watchmen”

  Damon Lindelof is fascinated by the elements of storytelling, sometimes to the detriment of the story itself.  It was fitting that a motif of WATCHMEN, both in its Alan Moore/Dave Gibbons 1987 graphic novel version and ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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The Sked: Saturday Ratings 12.31.2016

  Happy New Year!  Ratings were down from last year, possibly in part because the night fell on a Saturday, but Mariah Carey’s lip-sync disaster will be viral forever. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY WEDNESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 10.18.2017

  The numbers continued trending downward. 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), audienc...
by Mitch Salem
 
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EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “Annabelle: Creation” Solid, “Nut Job 2″” & “Glass Castle” Weak

  ANNABELLE: CREATION (New Line/Warners) will easily take the weekend.  According to preliminary numbers at Deadline, opening day was $15.1M, slightly below the $15.5M for 2014’s original Annabelle, but Creation is ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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COUNTING TO 10: Bad Superhero Movies

> To commemorate Green Lantern‘s arrival, 10 superhero movies that couldn’t fly: 10. WATCHMAN (2009):  Not a total disaster, but Zack Snyder’s failed epic earns its place by providing definitive proof tha...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY Pilot + 1 Review: “The Librarians”

  THE LIBRARIANS:  Sunday 8PM on TNT Previously… on THE LIBRARIANS:  In the long-term absence of head Librarian Flynn Carsen (Noah Wyle), a trio of apprentices preserve magical historical artifacts and keep the wor...
by Mitch Salem
 
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ShowbuzzDaily Sundance Film Festival Review: “Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot”

  DON’T WORRY, HE WON’T GET FAR ON FOOT (Amazon):  Despite some Christopher Nolan-esque splintering of time, Gus Van Sant’s Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot is one of his more convention...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY Pilot + 1 Review: “IZombie”

  IZOMBIE:  Tuesday 9PM on CW Previously… on IZOMBIE:  Liv Moore (Rose McIver) was a go-getting Seattle hospital resident when she suffered an untimely death at a party on a boat, her arm slashed by a mysterious fi...
by Mitch Salem
 
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The Tony Award Nominations

  In a Broadway season with seemingly just one overwhelming favorite (that would be Neil Patrick–wait for it–Harris), the Tony Award nominations were bound to have their share of omissions and oddities.  The f...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Box Office Footnotes – 7/1/11

> TRANSFORMERS:  DARK OF THE MOON becomes the latest franchise movie to fall short in the US compared to prior chapters of the series, despite an increased 3D ticket price.  (Like others, most notably Pirates 4, it ma...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “You’re the Worst”

  Everyone on Stephen Falk’s FX comedy YOU’RE THE WORST is a wreck, and yet the pieces of the show have fallen together rather neatly.  The series isn’t so much an anti-rom-com as a kicking and screaming...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW: “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”

  It was all so cute when it started… David Yates’ 2009 HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE is surprisingly funny at times–surprising, because in all other ways the film was, up to that point, by far t...
by Mitch Salem
 
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