Posts Tagged ‘spotlight’
 

 

NIELSENWAR: Meanwhile, on Cable…

  ABC had a very good hour on Sunday with its successful launch of Resurrection, but that still couldn’t compare to an entire night of Oscar coverage the previous week, so the network was down by more than 50% this t...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “Mummy” Stays In Grave, “Wonder Woman” Triumphs

  THE MUMMY (Perfect World/Universal) is a disaster, although the studio and its minions will try to spin otherwise through the course of the weekend.  According to preliminary numbers at Deadline, it earned $12M on openi...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “Furious 7″” Off To the Races With Giant Opening Day

Everyone knew that FURIOUS 7 (MRC/Universal) was going to have an enormous weekend, but the franchise is toppling even the most optimistic forecasts.  According to preliminary numbers at Deadline, opening day (which includes $...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

WORLD CUP SKEDBALL Special Report: The 6 Top-Rated Non-US World Cup Nations

With the end of group play at the World Cup, let’s take a closer look at the countries, other than the US, that are earning the highest ratings to date on ABC and ESPN during the tournament.   Group Stage Ratings by ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Monday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 6.21.2021

      Analysis to follow.       Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   Top 50 Original Cable Telecasts with Demographic Detail Top 150 Original Cable Telecasts To search for a show:...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Monday 2.7.2022 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  THE BACHELOR fell 0.12 to 0.66, and PROMISED LAND was down 0.04 to 0.18. CBS:  BIG BROTHER: CELEBRITY EDITION was at 0.42, down 0.05 from Sunday.  It was sandwiched between reruns at 0.48/0.36 a...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Review: “Lucy In the Sky”

  LUCY IN THE SKY (Fox Searchlight/Disney – October 4):  Lucy In the Sky may be Noah Hawley’s first feature film, but he’s already establishing himself as quite the overdirector.  Hawley’s X-Men o...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SKEDBALL: World Series Ratings through Game 7

World Series Game 7 last night ended up with 40 million persons 2+ in an average minute and a stellar 12.6 P18-49 demographic rating, versus around 24 million P2+ and a 7 P18-49 demo rating for the last two Game 7 telecasts (in...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

Weekend Box Office Predictions JULY 19-21

The 29th weekend of the year is looking like $178 million for the top 12 films, about normal for this weekend on average the past few years but down significantly from last year, which was dominated by the opening of The Dark ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE 2013: “Sweetwater”

  But for one unfortunately critical element, Logan and Noah Miller’s SWEETWATER (the brothers rewrote a script originally by Andrew McKenzie) is a highly enjoyable darkly comic western, as subsumed in stylized mov...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED Midseason Premiere Review: “The Walking Dead”

  THE WALKING DEAD:  Sunday 9PM on AMC The back half of THE WALKING DEAD‘s fourth season began by bringing the series back to square one:  isolated figures wandering without a clear goal through an anonymous landsc...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED 2013 UPFRONTS: CBS Featurette – “Hostages”

  Here’s another of CBS’s “behind-the-scenes” blurbs, this time about the thriller HOSTAGES, which will occupy the Monday 10PM slot during the fall (to be replaced by Intelligence) at midseason. All...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY FILM REVIEW: “Man of Steel”

  MAN OF STEEL:  Watch It At Home – Another Guy In a Cape “Kneel before Zod!” the villain of that name roared in what’s probably the best-remembered piece of dialogue from Superman 2.  That line ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

Behind the Weekend US/Worldwide Box Office – 7/13/14

  OPENINGS:  DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (20th) brought in $73M in the US, and added $31.1M in 26 (mostly smaller) international markets.  While a terrific boost to the franchise (which rebooted at $54.8M with Rise 3 ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Sunday 8.29.2021 Top 150 Cable Originals &; Network Finals (UPDATED)

  BROADCAST HIGHLIGHTS: ABC:  After a rerun AMERICA’S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS at 0.55, CELEBRITY FAMILY FEUD rose 0.04 to 0.57, THE CHASE dropped 0.13 to 0.47, and TO TELL THE TRUTH was down a tenth to 0.37. CBS:  BIG...
by Mitch Metcalf