Posts Tagged ‘spotlight’
 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “Fargo”

  FARGO:  Monday 10PM on FX Despite all the pressures of launching a new storyline and cast–not to mention living up to its brilliant first season–Noah Hawley’s reincarnation of the Coen Brothers’ ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “Venom” & “A Star Is Born” Big, “The Hate U Give” Starts OK

  VENOM (Tencent/Columbia/Sony) is the first big-budget action movie to open since The Meg in mid-August, and that (plus a huge marketing campaign) seems to have gotten it past murderous reviews for an enormous start, the ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “Murder In the First”

MURDER IN THE FIRST:  Monday 10PM on TNT Unloved by most critics and viewers, MURDER IN THE FIRST was lucky to have survived to a second season on TNT.  The return came with a fair amount of revamping, in the apparent hope th...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 25 Sunday Cable Originals (& Network Update): 10.12.2014

  NETWORK UPDATE:  ONCE UPON A TIME and RESURRECTION both received extra 0.1s in final Sunday numbers, as did MADAM SECRETARY and BROOKLYN NINE-NINE.  SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL adjusted to 6.6, 0.8 below last week’s g...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Wednesday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 5.29.2019

        NETWORK FINALS:  The rerun of SCHOOLED lost 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  The season premiere of ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

THE SKED’S TUESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 4/30/13

  NBC shook things up last night, to mixed effect. NBC:  A 2-hour THE VOICE hurt the 9PM competition, but resulted in a 3.7 for itself, the lowest Voice rating in weeks (down 0.4 from last Tuesday).  Putting GRIMM at 1...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY THURSDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 10.15.2020

  The ratings for the night’s dueling TOWN HALLS didn’t necessarily go as expected.  DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary live+same day key ad...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL Day 5 Capsule Reviews: “Jackie,” “Arrival,” “Loving,” “Blue Jay,” & “Black Mirror”

  JACKIE (Fox Searchlight – December 9):  The most impressive film of the festival thus far is director Pablo Larrain’s jewel-like examination of the realities and artifices behind our perceptions of history, ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “Guardians 2″” Kicks Off Summer Movie Season

  With a franchise like GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL 2 (Marvel/Disney), profitability isn’t at issue.  Guardians 2 carries around $350M in worldwide production/marketing costs, and it will be in hailing distance of f...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Monday 9.5.2022 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  THE BACHELORETTE dipped 0.05 to 0.73, and CLAIM TO FAME ticked down to 0.32. CBS:  Reruns at 0.28/0.23/0.26/0.19. NBC:  AMERICAN NINJA WARRIOR fell 0.09 to 0.37, and WEAKEST LINK was down 0.03 t...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZ FRIDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 5.29.2020

  Haircuts weren’t much of a draw. 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 and 25-54 ratin...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY TUESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 11.25.2014

  This is turning into a very bad week for NBC. 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), au...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 7.9.2023

  OPENINGS:  INSIDIOUS: THE RED DOOR (Screen Gems/Sony) reaffirmed the strength of the low-budget horror genre with a $32.7M start, better than the $29.6M launch of 2018’s The Last Key (which didn’t feature th...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

NOTE TO READERS: Delayed Text

  Due to our coverage of the Toronto Film Festival beginning tomorrow, over the next week, while morning and afternoon charts will be posted on schedule (Nielsen permitting, as yesterday’s and today’s delays un...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Wednesday 6.29.2022 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  Reruns at 0.34/0.24/0.23/0.22/0.29. CBS:  Reruns at 0.36/0.41/0.24. NBC:  Reruns at 0.26/0.30/0.29. FOX:  MASTERCHEF held at 0.41, and SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE stayed at 0.28. CW:  The seaso...
by Mitch Salem