Posts Tagged ‘spotlight’
 

 

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Jack the Giant Slayer”

  JACK THE GIANT SLAYER:  Watch It At Home – No Giants Here It’s been a dozen years since moviegoers took up residence in Middle Earth with the opening of the first Lord of the Rings film, and since the multi-...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Sunday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 12.10.2017

        NETWORK FINALS:  SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL adjusted to 5.4, down a point from last week’s game, and football adjustment also accounted in the 0.4 drop for THE SIMPSONS and the 0.1 drop for BOBR...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

UPDATED: THE SKED CABLE/NETWORK SCORECARD – 3/24/14

  AFTERNOON UPDATE:  As expected, once the 10:01PM start was factored in, THE VOICE went up 0.1 and THE BLACKLIST went down the same.  HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER also climbed 0.1, as did both ABC shows, while INTELLIGENCE was dow...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Film Review: “Jersey Boys”

  JERSEY BOYS:  Watch It At Home – Clint Eastwood Directing the Broadway Hit Is As Weird As It Sounds No one will mistake the combination of Clint Eastwood and JERSEY BOYS for the fortuitous collision of chocolat...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 4.24.2022

  OPENINGS:  THE BAD GUYS (DreamWorks Animation/Universal) had a solid $24M start, above (low) projections.  It’s unclear whether the release for the film will fall under the normal Universal non-blockbuster 17-day...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Friday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 8.23.2019

        NETWORK FINALS:  It was another night of heavy adjustments due to local NFL PRESEASON games.  There were 0.2 declines for the reruns of AMERICAN HOUSEWIFE and FRESH OFF THE BOAT, and 0.1 drops for ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 100 Thursday Cable Originals (& Network Update): 7.16.2015

  NOTE TO READERS:  Charts will be updated later this afternoon with format and editing changes. UPDATE: Charts now in normal format. NETWORK UPDATE:  ASTRONAUT WIVES CLUB lost 0.1 and MISTRESSES gained 0.1 in final nu...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings 3.31-4.1.2018

Here are the weekend sports ratings for Saturday and Sunday March 31-April 1, 2018.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 300K P2+).  Programs are grouped by sport...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

THE SKED NETWORK SCORECARD – 1/16/14

  American Idol‘s woes continued last night.  (So did everyone else’s.) FOX:  On a year-to-year basis, Thursday’s plunge for AMERICAN IDOL was even worse than Wednesday’s, down an awful 1.7 from last ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

HOBBITWATCH: A Sort-Of Midnight Record

  The cash has started pouring in for THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY (Warners/MGM).  In 3100 theatres, the film earned $13M in midnight screenings last night.  That was considerably higher than the $8M earned by the m...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Homeland”

  In a way, tonight’s off-key Season 4 finale of HOMELAND was the hour its seriously odd season deserved.  As bipolar as its main character, Season 4 began with misguided attempts to recapture something of the early...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 100 Friday Cable Originals & Network Update: 11.6.2015

  NETWORK UPDATE:  BLUE BLOODS gained 0.1 in final numbers.   Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Discovery’s GOLD RUSH topped Friday cable, down 0.04 from last wee...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Monday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 10.19.2020

        NETWORK FINALS:  We don’t have specifics on this, but it appears as though ABC had some local preemptions for MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL, since DANCING WITH THE STARS dropped 0.2 and EMERGENCY CALL was...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

Weekend Box Office: “Catching Fire” Strikes Tinder Tonight

  THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE, the 600-pound gorilla of the holiday movie box office season (The Hobbit 2 is by comparison a smaller simian, at least in the US) opens tonight, and the question is just how big it will b...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Grey’s Anatomy”

  As hard as it is to create a compelling, successful television series, it’s much harder to keep one going year after year, after cast changes and writer changes and timeslot changes and network management changes a...
by Mitch Salem