Posts Tagged ‘spotlight’
 

 

Year to Date Box Office & Worldwide Studio Scorecard 12.27.2015

WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD.   YEAR TO DATE BOX OFFICE. Looking at North American box office, 2015 to date is now +7% above last year and now +5% above the average for this point the past four years ($9.588 billion).  O...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

THE SKED REVIEW: SNL with Jamie Foxx

  It felt like 12:55AM for the entire last half-hour of tonight’s SNL, and that wasn’t a bad thing.  Every post-Update sketch had the kind of oddball conceptualism that’s usually reserved for the last mi...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED NETWORK SCORECARD – 10/27/13

  For viewers not watching sports or zombies last night–however few of them there were–TV offered a gangbusters episode of The Good Wife and a superb hour from Masters of Sex (although the less said about Homeland,...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

Behind the Worldwide Box Office – 5/11/14

  Note:  Most of the studios are pinning extremely aggressive Sunday estimates on the hope that their movie will be a popular Mothers Day destination, so look for a potentially larger than usual set of adjustments in fina...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED REVIEW: “Saturday Night Live” with Louis CK

  Louis CK’s last visit to host SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE in 2012 was one of the show’s best recent episodes, and now that his signature Louie is resuming (finally!) on FX in May, he came back tonight for a return en...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Friday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 10.13.2017

        NETWORK FINALS:  There were no changes from the early numbers for Friday.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Sports continue...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “Pure Genius”

  PURE GENIUS:  Thursday 10PM on CBS – Change the Channel One of the oddities of CBS’s medical drama PURE GENIUS is that its setting–a wildly overfunded institute that boasts the ultimate in cutting edge...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings 10.22-23.2015

Here are the weekend sports ratings for Saturday and Sunday October 22-23, 2016.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 150K P2+).  Programs are grouped by sport an...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

Weekend Box Office Predictions SEP 12-14

Weekend #37 of 2014 is looking like $65 million for the top 12 films this weekend, down 21% from the norm for this weekend. Opening at around 3,500 theaters Friday (above the 2,886 average theater count for opening weekends the...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE PREDICTIONS April 26-28

The two openers this weekend will be forgotten in several days or weeks, while Oblivion has a good chance of staying at #1 in its second weekend and 42 will be the other holdover still above the significant $10 million weekend ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

SKEDBALL: Weekly Sports TV Ratings 5.22-5.28.2023

Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday May 22 through Sunday May 28, 2023. Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 200K Persons 2+ live+same day). Programs are ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 11.17.2024

  OPENINGS:  A $34.1M US launch for a movie that reportedly carries about $350M in production and marketing costs likely means a nine-figure loss in theatrical release, which traditionally is considered less than desirabl...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Wednesday 4.27.2022 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  After reruns at 0.33/0.22/0.24/0.18, A MILLION LITTLE THINGS was steady at 0.26. CBS:  SURVIVOR ticked down to 0.85, BEYOND THE EDGE also ticked down to 0.27, and GOOD SAM ticked up to 0.21. NBC:...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED: “Duck Dynasty” Season Premiere Takes Flight

  Amazingly, the phenomenon that is DUCK DYNASTY may still not have peaked.  Last night’s Season 4 premiere on A&E hit a new high, with 11.8M viewers (more than 2M more than April’s Season 3 finale), and a...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

Broadcast Weekly & Summer Averages through September 2

The week heading into Labor Day is usually forgettable.  Television viewing is always very light the Thursday-Sunday before the holiday, and this past week the broadcast networks suffered through low ratings for the Republican...
by Mitch Metcalf