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BEHIND THE WEEKEND BOXOFFICE: 6/9/13

  OPENINGS:  Not to throw any cold water on the extremely impressive performance of THE PURGE (Universal), but it’s unlikely that the thriller will slip only 12% on Sunday, as Universal is forecasting, when the next...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED: Upfront Ad Sales and Their Moving Parts

  According to published reports, CBS, CW and now FOX have largely concluded their upfront sales of advertising time for the 2013-14 broadcast season.  (“Upfront” meaning sales closed before the season begins,...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

The Sked: TUESDAY Ratings Charts

Tuesday network ratings versus the same night last year. Original episode track for Tuesday broadcast programs.
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings 3.17-18.2018

Here are the weekend sports ratings for Saturday and Sunday March 17-18, 2018.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 300K P2+).  Programs are grouped by sport and ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 8.4.2019

  OPENINGS:  HOBBS & SHAW (Universal) dropped 13% on Saturday, considerably less frontloaded than the 31% Saturday drops for the last 2 Fast & Furious titles, The Fate Of the Furious and Furious 7.  Both of those...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY TUESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 7.4.2017

  The fireworks were a bit dimmer this Independence Day. 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 rat...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

Holiday Box Office Volume: through December 24

For the 9 days December 16-24, the top 10 films each day in North America have totaled $430 million, nearly identical to last year’s pace and above all other years except 2015, when Star Wars: The Force Awakens dominat...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

UPDATED with CHARTS: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Tuesday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 3.27.2018

        NETWORK FINALS:  We don’t have final network charts yet, but here were the adjustments from this morning’s prelims:  ROSEANNE was even 0.1 bigger than its massive early number, and THE ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Friday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 8.9.2019

        NETWORK FINALS:  Note that the WE DAY special must have run without commercials, and thus it wasn’t included in Nielsen’s final ratings.  As expected, there were a slew of adjustments f...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

Weekend Studio Estimates 6.12-14.2015

Based on Friday’s and Saturday’s grosses, weekend #24 of 2015 now looks like $264 million for the top 12 films Friday-Sunday, a touch lower than yesterday’s estimate ($269 million) but still well above the n...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

THE SKED Series Finale Review: “True Blood”

  Before the final 2 weeks of its run, the word no one would ever have dreamed of attaching to TRUE BLOOD was “subdued”; it was the guilty pleasure HBO series that was loaded with sex and violence and got great...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY FRIDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 1.18.2019

  Some shows were in rerun mode for the holiday weekend. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary live+same day key advertiser demographics (adult 18-34, 18-49...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Sunday 4.23.2023 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  AMERICA’S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS, with a boost from the 1.15/2.18 NBA PLAYOFFS games that preceded it, rose 0.18 to 0.66.  A 3-hour AMERICAN IDOL was up 0.04 to 0.68. CBS:  60 MINUTES droppe...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

The Sked: MONDAY Ratings

Monday preliminary broadcast ratings:
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Friday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 12.30.2016

        NETWORK FINALS:  The IHEARTRADIO MUSIC FESTIVAL special gained 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  ESPN...
by Mitch Metcalf