Posts Tagged ‘spotlight’
 

 

UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Saturday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 8.12.2017

        NETWORK FINALS:  Saturday was another night with NFL Preseason games, so there were plenty of adjustments.  Each show in the ABC and FOX line-ups as well as DATELINE and 48 HOURS dropped 0.1 in fin...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Friday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 8.11.2017

        NETWORK FINALS:  Once the NFL preseason games were cleared out for final numbers, the entire CBS line-up (reruns of MACGYVER and BLUE BLOODS plus the SON OF SAM special) and the rerun AMERICA’...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

The Sked: Sunday Network Scorecard 8.13.2017

It was another night where preliminary ratings won’t necessarily mean very much.  The entire CBS schedule was pushed 18 minutes in most of the country because the PGA CHAMPIONSHIP ran late, and there were NFL preseason p...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “I’m Dying Up Here”

  I’M DYING UP HERE certainly wasn’t the worst show of the summer, but it did make one wonder how it had made its way through the development process and onto Showtime’s air.  Series creator Dave Flebott...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 8.13.2017

  OPENINGS:  There have been a lot of busted franchises this summer, but ANNABELLE: CREATION (New Line/Warners) held strong, with a $35M opening weekend that was down just 5% from the first Annabelle.  The new entry is c...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

Year to Date Box Office & Worldwide Studio Scorecard 8.13.2017

WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD.  Here is an updated look at the 2017 film slates by studio. YEAR TO DATE BOX OFFICE. Looking at North American box office, 2017 to date is now down -1% from last year and now +3% above the averag...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

The Sked: Saturday Network Scorecard 8.12.2017

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), audience skews (women 18-49, men 18-49 and adults 50+ s...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Finale Review: “Orphan Black”

  ORPHAN BLACK is destined to be remembered more for the showcase it gave to the astonishing Tatiana Maslany than for its own narrative, although of course one couldn’t have existed without the other.  Series creato...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY FRIDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 8.11.2017

  CBS and NBC numbers below inflated by local pre-emptions for NFL Preseason games: CBS (Pittsburgh and Kansas City pre-emptions) and NBC (New York and Tampa). DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segme...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “Annabelle: Creation” Solid, “Nut Job 2″” & “Glass Castle” Weak

  ANNABELLE: CREATION (New Line/Warners) will easily take the weekend.  According to preliminary numbers at Deadline, opening day was $15.1M, slightly below the $15.5M for 2014’s original Annabelle, but Creation is ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Thursday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 8.10.2017

    NETWORK FINALS:  As we noted this morning, the preliminary ratings were more or less useless because of NFL preemptions, so we’ll do a full network rundown here. NBC:  SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE’s summer We...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY PRELIMINARY THURSDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 8.10.2017

NOTE: The preliminary ratings below are inflated by multiple major-market pre-emptions for NFL preseason games, impacting each network. We’re not going to attempt any analysis of the numbers until the finals are in this a...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Nashville”

  An odd thing happened to NASHVILLE in its 5th season, as it shifted networks to CMT and showrunners to Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick.  When series creator Callie Khouri and original showrunner Dee Johnson were in...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Wednesday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 8.9.2017

        NETWORK FINALS:  As we noted last week, NFL exhibition season means plentiful local preemptions and thus adjustments.  The chief victim on Wednesday was ABC, which saw its STORY OF DIANA fall 0.3 t...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY WEDNESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 8.9.2017

  THE CARMICHAEL SHOW had a steady end. 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), audience s...
by Mitch Metcalf