Posts Tagged ‘spotlight’
 

 

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE PREDICTIONS July 6-8: Spider-Man Returns to the Scene

Weekend #27 of 2012 looks pretty solid: $185 million for the top 12 films, up 27% from last year’s comparable weekend and up 22% from the four-year average for the weekend. Much of this increase can be attributed to the c...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

THE SKED 2013 UPFRONTS: FOX Trailer – “Us & Them”

  Currently TBD on the FOX schedule is US & THEM, an adaptation of the well-liked British comedy Gavin & Stacey.  It stars the also well-liked Jason Ritter and Alexis Bledel as co-workers from different branches o...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

FRIDAY JULY 6 BOX OFFICE RESULTS: Spider-Man Paces Very Solid Weekend

In line with our Tuesday forecast, the 27th weekend of 2012 is looking like $189 million for the Top 12 films Friday-Sunday, up 29% from this weekend last year and up 24% from the multi-year average for this weekend.       �...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “Unsolved”

  UNSOLVED: THE MURDERS OF TUPAC & THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G. – Tuesday 10PM on USA – Potential DVR Alert The progeny of The People vs. OJ Simpson continue to arrive.  This season we’ve had the (so far) en...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED Season Finale Review: “The Vampire Diaries”

  The fifth season of THE VAMPIRE DIARIES was great fun as usual, although also a bit sloppier than the norm.  That could well be the result of series mastermind Julie Plec having to spread her time between Diaries, the n...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Wednesday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 6.29.2016

      NETWORK FINALS:  BIG BROTHER and MASTERCHEF gained 0.1 in final numbers, but WAYWARD PINES lost the same.           Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE H...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY THURSDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 8.13.2015

  A NOTE ABOUT NFL EXHIBITION SEASON:  Over the next several weeks, NFL pre-season games will largely be aired on local stations, rather than nationally.  (For example, last night’s CBS and NBC fast nationals–...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings 9.9-10.2017

Here are the weekend sports ratings for Saturday and Sunday September 9-10, 2017.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 300K P2+).  Programs are grouped by sport a...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

Year to Date Box Office & Worldwide Studio Scorecard 4.22.2018

WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD.  Here is an updated look at the 2018 film slates by studio. The studio totals also include 2018 dollars for films released in late 2017. YEAR TO DATE BOX OFFICE. Looking at North American box offic...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Sunday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 4.18.2021

        NETWORK FINALS:  There were significant adjustments (to the next tenth) for AMERICAN IDOL, THE ROOKIE, ZOEY’S EXTRAORDINARY PLAYLIST and FAMILY GUY.          Broadcast Officia...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

THE SKED REVIEW: “Saturday Night Live” with Jim Parsons

  SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE was pushed off the air for a solid month by the Winter Olympics, and then by 15 more minutes in the east tonight by an NHL game in primetime–not the kind of thing that pleases Generalissimo Lorn...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday September 28 and Sunday September 29, 2013. (The 56 markets out of 210 total cover about 70% of the US television p...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

THE SKED SERIES PREMIERE REVIEW: “The Fosters”

  THE FOSTERS:  Monday 9PM on ABCFamily For the most part, ABCFamily’s new THE FOSTERS takes a nicely low-key approach to material that could easily have been cloying or vapid (or both).  Our entry point into the s...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Sunday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 6.5.2016

      NETWORK FINALS:  Game 2 of the NBA FINALS adjusted to 6.5, and the pre-game JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE adjusted to 1.0.  In addition, the MISS USA PAGEANT gained 0.1 after adjustment.  Elsewhere, the AMERICAN NIN...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

THE SKED Review: “Saturday Night Live” with Jimmy Fallon & Justin Timberlake

  The hits just kept coming on tonight’s SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, which packed a whole fall’s worth of glitz into the show’s final 90 minutes of 2013.  Technically, Jimmy Fallon was the host and Justin Timbe...
by Mitch Salem