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UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Wednesday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 2.20.2019

        NETWORK FINALS:  THE MASKED SINGER gained 0.1 in final numbers, while THE WORLD’S BEST and MATCH GAME lost the same.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Ch...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND BOXOFFICE: “Fast & Furious 6” Debuts With Speed

  FAST & FURIOUS 6 (Universal) is off to a quick start with $6.5M from Thursday night shows, considerably above the $3.8M that Fast Five made (only in midnight shows) in its Thursday start 2 years ago.  That bodes ver...
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THE SKED Season Finale Review: “Betrayal”

  All the way to the very end, BETRAYAL couldn’t get it right.  Although it hasn’t technically been canceled (as a matter of policy, networks don’t give up their legal rights to shows until the last poss...
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THE SKED Season Finale Review: “The 100″”

  Season 1 of CW’s THE 100 worked better than logic suggested it should, considering that it was basically a thrift shop of plotlines and tropes from other, more ambitious fantasies, some aimed at teens (The Hunger G...
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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Saturday 1.15.2022 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED

  BROADCAST FINALS:  Unsurprisingly, the day was dominated by the NFL PLAYOFFS, with CBS’s game at 7.03 and NBC’s at 7.05.  The first new SNL of 2022 was at 1.02.  CW’s originals were at 0.05/0.04. &nb...
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SKEDBALL: Winter Olympic Ratings Update

Last night’s Olympic primetime coverage on NBC averaged a turgid 3.5 adult 18-49 rating from 8:00-11:00 pm in the fast nationals.  The 8:00 half hour will almost certainly be excluded from the ratings, as they have on th...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Friday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 10.25.2019

        NETWORK FINALS:  DATELINE lost 0.1 in final numbers.  In addition, Game 3 of the WORLD SERIES adjusted to 2.8, down 0.6 from 2018’s Game 3.           Broadcast Official ...
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THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “The New Normal”

  Over the course of the season, THE NEW NORMAL toned down its most disastrous miscalculation, which can be summarized in two words:  Ellen Barkin.  Not Barkin the very fine actress, of course, but the character she was ...
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SHOWBUZZDAILY MONDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 3.21.2016

  The shows that fell last week didn’t bounce back. 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 ra...
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THE SKED’s Fall TV Ratings Predictions – Tuesday

  Our soothsaying group of former NBC head of Scheduling Mitch Metcalf, longtime head of NBC Current Programming Ted Frank and myself is continuing to set out instant, perhaps foolhardy predictions of what next fall’...
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SHOWBUZZDAILY FRIDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 9.18.2015

  A lean final Friday of the summer season. 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), audien...
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UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Monday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 11.2.2020

        NETWORK FINALS:  THE VOICE, FILTHY RICH, DANCING WITH THE STARS and THE GOOD DOCTOR all gained 0.1 in final numbers, while the rerun PENN & TELLER: FOOL US lost the same.        &nbs...
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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 100 Thursday Cable Originals (& Network Update): 8.20.2015

  NETWORK UPDATE:  After adjustment for football preemptions, both FOOD FIGHTERS and DATELINE dimmed by 0.2 from preliminary numbers, respectively to 0.9 and 1.2.  At FOX, BOOM lost 0.1 to 0.6, and the BONES rerun drop...
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FRIDAY 1.9.2015 Box Office Report

Based on Friday’s grosses, weekend #2 of 2015 looks like $110 million for the top 12 films Friday-Sunday, down from the norm for this weekend and down from the same weekend last year.   Opening at 3,593 theaters Friday,�...
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Behind the US/Worldwide Holiday Weekend Box Office – 1/4/15

  OPENING:  THE WOMAN IN BLACK 2:  ANGEL OF DEATH (Relativity) fell to 4th place for the weekend, as expected, after a strong opening day.  Still, a $15.1M haul for the cheap thriller isn’t at all bad, and it woul...
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