Posts Tagged ‘spotlight’
 

 

THE SKED REVIEW: Saturday Night Live with Justin Bieber

  Well, the studio audience seemed to be having a great time at SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE tonight.  There were more squeals than laughs to be had, what with Justin Bieber in the house as both host and musical guest.  The show ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Saturday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 5.23.2020

        NETWORK FINALS:  The LABOR OF LOVE rerun gained 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  A&E’s LIVE PD...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

THURSDAY NIGHT BOX OFFICE: “Maleficent” Spreads Its Wings, “Million Ways” Dies

  MALEFICENT (Disney) made it clear very quickly that it’s not going to play strictly as a family movie, earning a strong $4.2M in Thursday night screenings that began at 7PM.  That’s better than the Thursday ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Monday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 5.13.2019

        NETWORK FINALS:  THE VOICE lost 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart         CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  USA’s WWE telec...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

Weekend Box Office Predictions 7.17-19.2015

Weekend #29 of 2015 is looking like $195 million for the top 12 films this weekend, somewhat above the norm for this weekend and way above last year’s very soft weekend (see comparisons below).   Ant-Man from Disney ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “Think Too” OK, “Jersey Boys” Off-Key

  This is going to be a soft weekend at the box office, since studios are largely saying out of the way of next week’s Transformers behemoth.  Based on preliminary numbers at Deadline and elsewhere, THINK LIKE ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

EARLY WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: “Big Hero 6″” Surges Ahead of “Interstellar”

  Saturday matinees, and the families who attend them, were the difference for BIG HERO 6 (Disney) this weekend.  Disney’s roly-poly new action star came back from being around $1.2M behind INTERSTELLAR (Par/Warners...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

American Sniper: Putting the Phenomenal Box Office in Perspective

One useful way to look at box office momentum is to compare the Opening (normally the first Friday-Sunday or in some cases the first wide-release weekend and all the additional days before that) to the Next 7 Days, the first fu...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY THURSDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 5.28.2015

  There wasn’t much dawn for the age of AQUARIUS. 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 rati...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Saturday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 7.21.2018

        NETWORK FINALS:  There were no changes from Saturday’s preliminary ratings.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  A&ER...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Thursday 3.23.2023 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  STATION 19 dropped 0.05 to 0.45, GREY’S ANATOMY ticked up to 0.43, and ALASKA DAILY was down 0.02 to 0.21. CBS:  The broadcast NCAA TOURNAMENT games were at 0.86/1.42. NBC:  Returning from...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings 6.18-19.2016

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday June 18 and Sunday June 19, 2016. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

THE SKED’S PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “Deception”

  DECEPTION:  Monday 10PM on NBC A lot can happen between the creation of a TV pilot in the spring and the production of episodes for the regular season: a writing/producing team is hired, audience focus groups weigh in, ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY TUESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 3.15.2016

  The strategy of previewing sitcoms behind THE VOICE continues to work for NBC. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary key advertiser demographics (adult 18...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

Broadcast News & Late Night Series: 8.3-8.9.2020

Broadcast news and late night series ratings available below for this week and the same week last year. You can also search for other available weeks with the link at the bottom of this post. Week 32: August 3-August 9, 2020 Br...
by Mitch Metcalf