Posts Tagged ‘spotlight’
 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY WEDNESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 2.14.2018

  Valentine’s Day was slow even for the WINTER OLYMPICS. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary key advertiser demographics (adult 18-34, 18-49 and 25-...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED: “House of Cards” Keeps Standing

  We don’t know how many people actually watch HOUSE OF CARDS, because Netflix keeps that information as close to its corporate vest as Francis Underwood keeps his doublecrossing strategies, but we know that Netflix ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY WEDNESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 1.27.2021

  NBC faced little challenge. 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 ratings), audien...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Tuesday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 8.24.2021

        BROADCAST HIGHLIGHTS: ABC:  BACHELOR IN PARADISE was at 0.81, down 0.23 from Monday’s episode, and ULTIMATE SURFER was at 0.34, steady with Monday. CBS:  Reruns at 0.26-0.29. NBC:  AMERICA’...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Tuesday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 1.10.2017

    NETWORK FINALS:  Adjustments pushed THIS IS US up 0.4 to a new series high 3.0, but that’s a bit misleading, because the episode aired twice on the West Coast, at 9PM and again at 10PM, and the final rating...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings 11.21-22.2015

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday November 21 and Sunday November 22, 2015. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television popu...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Wednesday 10.27.2021 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED

  BROADCAST FINALS: ABC:  THE GOLDBERGS gained 0.04 to 0.58, THE WONDER YEARS was up 0.04 to 0.43, THE CONNERS returned from a rerun week down a tenth to 0.51, and HOME ECONOMICS ticked up to 0.30.  A MILLION LITTLE THIN...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Friday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 10.2.2020

        NETWORK FINALS:  Game 2 of the NBA FINALS adjusted to 2.4, down 50% from 2019’s Game 2 (on a Sunday in June).          Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   &n...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “The Heat” Scores, “White House” Really Is Down

  Preliminary box office numbers at Deadline have THE HEAT (20th) overperforming with a $15M Friday, which could give it a $40M opening weekend, almost as much as the movie cost to produce.  That means the first 3 days fo...
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 October 19 and Sunday October 20, 2013. (The 56 markets out of 210 total cover about 70% of the US television populat...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Sunday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 1.29.2017

      NETWORK FINALS:  NCIS: LA and the 8PM TO TELL THE TRUTH gained 0.1 in final numbers, while DATELINE lost the same.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     &...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Virtual Sundance Reviews: “First Date” & “Pleasure”

  FIRST DATE:  Your regard for First Date is likely to directly relate to your nostalgia for the low-rent action comedies and Tarantino imitations of the 1990s and 2000s.  Those comedies were marked by idiot plots that p...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Westworld”

  Do Westworld‘s creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy have free will?  This third season of HBO’s was supposed to be fundamentally different from the first two, and certainly things changed in some key ways. ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE DAY AFTER: Oscar Thoughts

  There are 4 ways an Oscar night can be memorable: A Great Host:  Seth MacFarlane was bad–maybe not James Franco bad, but bad.  The ways he was bad, though, weren’t in any way unexpected.  Meta-gags and cou...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

PREMIERING TONIGHT – THE SKED SERIES PREMIERE REVIEW: CW’s “Reign”

  Read All Our Fall Pilot Reports here. REIGN:  Thursday 9PM on CW – Potential DVR Alert The CW is often–and rightly–considered a network of very limited ambitions, with just two modes of operation:  ro...
by Mitch Salem