Posts Tagged ‘spotlight’
 

 

THE SKED Season Premiere Review: “Psych”

  PSYCH:  Wednesday 10PM on USA It’s sort of fitting that PSYCH, a show now a little past its prime, kicked off its 8th and perhaps final season with a parody of late 1990s Guy Ritchie lad thrillers like Lock, Stock...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SKEDBALL: Weekly Sports TV Ratings 4.13-4.19.2020

Here are the full week sports ratings (such as they are) for Monday April 13 through Sunday April 19, 2020.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 300K P2+ live+same d...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

PREMIERING TONIGHT: THE SKED’S PILOT REPORT: “Family Tools”

  FAMILY TOOLS –  Wednesday 8:30PM on ABC – Change the Channel   J.K. Simmons is one of our national character actor treasures, but he tests the bounds of our willingness to follow him anywhere with FAMIL...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Tuesday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 3.24.2020

        NETWORK FINALS:  Chart has been corrected.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Pop’s SCHITT’S CREEK edged up 0.02 to ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 25 Wednesday Cable Originals (& Network Update): 9.24.2014

  NETWORK UPDATE:  MODERN FAMILY gained 0.2 in final numbers, and both THE MIDDLE and THE GOLDBERGS climbed 0.1, although BLACK-ISH and NASHVILLE remained where they were.  SVU found an extra 0.1, as did RED BAND SOCIETY...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

Weekend Box Office Predictions 5.6-8.2016

Weekend #19 of 2016 forecasts for films opening wide and major returning films: NEW FILMS THIS WEEKEND May 6-8, 2016 Critics Positive ($ millions) Opening Weekend Forecast Domestic Total Projection Overseas Total Projection Wor...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Sunday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 12.2.2018

        NETWORK FINALS:  All of CBS’s shows dropped in final numbers, 60 MINUTES by 0.2, GARTH LIVE AT NOTRE DAME by 0.1, and the rerun NCIS: LA by 0.1.  In addition, SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL adjusted t...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

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 Tuesday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 8.15.2017

        NETWORK FINALS:  HOLLYWOOD GAME NIGHT, SOMEWHERE BETWEEN, and the reruns of THE FLASH and LEGENDS OF TOMORROW all lost 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Ford vs. Ferrari” & “The Laundromat”

  FORD VS. FERRARI (20th Century Fox/Disney – November 15):  If the Academy decides to award James Mangold’s Ford vs. Ferrari, which is certainly a possibility, it will be able to have some metaphorical cake a...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

NIELSENWAR 2014-15 Trailer Review: FOX’s “Wayward Pines”

  WAYWARD PINES:  Midseason TBD on FOX THE FACTS:  M. Night Shyamalan is the marquee producer of this neo-Twin Peaks-ian limited series.  (He also directed the pilot.)  It concerns Secret Service agent Ethan Burke, who...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY WED NETWORK SCORECARD – 11.12.2014

  NBC did November sweeps the old school way last night. 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 rat...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

NIELSENWAR 2014-15 Trailer Review: ABC’s “Galavant”

  GALAVANT:  Winter-ish Sunday 8PM on ABC THE FACTS:  A fairy tale musical comedy from Dan Fogelman, the creator of the late, lamented (by some of us) The Neighbors, with an original score by multiple Oscar-winner Alan M...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED NETWORK SCORECARD – 12/31/13

  Happy New Year to all, as we dust off the last ratings of 2013: ABC:  NEW YEAR’S ROCKIN EVE, aka the Ryan Seacrest New Year’s Eve show, had no trouble disposing of NBC with a 3.7 that more than doubled the c...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

Weekend Box Office Predictions 1.16-18.2015

Weekend #3 of 2015 is looking like $134 million for the top 12 films this weekend, up from the norm for this weekend but down from the same weekend last year. Opening at around 3,200 theaters Friday (above the 2,886 average...
by Mitch Metcalf