Posts Tagged ‘spotlight’
 

 

UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Sunday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 1.27.2019

        NETWORK FINALS:  MADAM SECRETARY, the 10PM SHARK TANK and the rerun AMERICA’S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS each lost 0.1 in final numbers.  (There was no adjustment for FOX’s RENT.)     &...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

Behind the US/Worldwide Box Office – 5.12.2024

  OPENINGS:  After last week’s Fall Guy stumble, KINGDOM OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (20th/Disney) arrived at the high end of projections with $56.5M.   That was roughly on par with the starts for 2011’s Rise ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “Homeland”

  HOMELAND:  Sunday 9PM on Showtime We’ve recently acquired the concept of “legacy media,” referring to things like newspapers that are actually printed on pieces of paper–still potentially useful,...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

ShowbuzzDaily SUMMER MOVIE DRAFT July 8 Update: Now It’s Interesting

Team Salem’s slate in the second annual ShowbuzzDaily Summer Movie Draft now stands at $556 million, with a lot of upside left in Amazing Spider-Man, significant business left for Brave, and three movies left to open. ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

Toronto Film Festival 2024 Reviews: “Megalopolis” & “Millers In Marriage”

  MEGALOPOLIS (American Zoetrope/Lionsgate – Sept. 27):  Francis Ford Coppola’s long-awaited, much-discussed return to epic filmmaking, self-financed to the tune of $125M+ (he’s paying for the marketing...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY FRIDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 11.6.2020

NOTE: The program listings below include late changes, although they remain unconfirmed until Monday. View with caution. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary li...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

THE SKED: “Cult” Disbands

  It really takes some doing to have ratings too low for CW on Friday nights, but CULT pulled it off, yanked from the network’s schedule with almost half of its episodes still unaired.  (Last week Cult had a 0.2 ra...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

Year to Date Box Office & Worldwide Studio Scorecard 7.22.2018

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
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Tuesday 12.21.2021 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  The season finale of THE BACHELORETTE was at 0.74, up 0.05 from last week but down sharply from last year’s 1.4.  An AFTER-SHOW followed at 0.58. CBS:  Reruns at 0.38/0.30. NBC:  Reruns a...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

International Box Office Report through September 15

Updated international box office chart:
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

THE SKED CABLE RATINGS SCORECARD: 8/24-27

  SATURDAY AMC:  HELL ON WHEELS held well in total viewers at 2M, but they got a lot older, as the show’s 18-49 rating fell from 0.5 to 0.3.  That makes almost 80% of its viewers over 50, not exactly the most adver...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Monday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 6.19.2017

        NETWORK FINALS:  Things got worse for STILL STAR-CROSSED in final numbers, which dropped it 0.1 to an awful-even-for-summer 0.3 (more precisely 0.34).  In addition, the rerun of MOM lost 0.1.   &n...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

Sundance 2023 Reviews: “The Persian Version,” “The Starling Girl,” & “The Accidental Getaway Driver”

  THE PERSIAN VERSION (Sony Classics):  Maryam Keshavarz’s dramedy won the Sundance Audience Award in the US Dramatic Competition, and it’s a smart mixture of broad comedy and family drama.  The comedy is mos...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

NIELSENWAR 2014-15: House Cleaning at NBC and ABC

  If #6seasonsandamovie is going to happen for COMMUNITY, it won’t be at NBC, which finally fired the bullet that’s been aimed at Dan Harmon’s show seemingly every season since it went on the air.  That ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED’S TUESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 9/4/12

Viewers have the same lack of interest in the DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION that they did in the Republicans. FOX:  Without the burden of convention coverage, and with its HELL’S KITCHEN/MASTERCHEF double-bill at 2.5/2....
by Mitch Salem