Posts Tagged ‘spotlight’
 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “Game of Thrones”

  GAME OF THRONES:  Sunday 9PM on HBO Concerns have been as high as expectations for the final season of GAME OF THRONES.  Season 7, the first with little recourse to George R. R. Martin’s novels due to the lagging...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Saturday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 1.5.2019

        NETWORK FINALS:  FOX’s NFL WILD CARD game adjusted to 8.9.          Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  ESPN shared the AFC NFL WI...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Saturday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 12.16.2017

        NETWORK FINALS:  UFC FIGHT NIGHT gained 0.1 in final numbers, but the rerun of SUPERSTORE fell 0.2, and DATELINE as well as the entire CBS line-up were down 0.1.         Broadcas...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

UPDATED: THE SKED CABLE/NETWORK TUESDAY SCORECARD – 5/27/14

  NETWORK UPDATE:  The only changes were in reruns:  NCIS rose 0.1 and both CW shows lost 0.1. TUESDAY CABLE:  TNT’s NBA PLAYOFFS game was in charge at 2.6.  The NHL PLAYOFFS on NBC Sports Network WERE AT 0.6.  THE ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

INTERNATIONAL BOX OFFICE through December 30

Skyfall is still growing overseas, albeit at a slower rate.  But another $16 million this week puts the overseas total over$700 million and the worldwide total comfortably over $1 billion, joining Marvel’s The Avengers ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Sunday 9.25.2022 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  After a GLOBAL CITIZEN FESTIVAL special at 0.12, it was a night of premieres.  CELEBRITY JEOPARDY launched at 0.42.  The season premiere of CELEBRITY WHEEL OF FORTUNE was at 0.47, up 0.07 from t...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

SKEDBALL: Weekly Sports TV Ratings 12.21-12.27.2020

Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday December 21 through Sunday December 27, 2020.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 200K Persons 2+ live+same day). �...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Saturday 5.21.2022 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED

  BROADCAST FINALS:  ABC’s NBA PLAYOFFS game was dominant at 2.11.  NBC’s USFL game was at 0.19, and the season finale of SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE was steady at 0.81.  FOX’s MLS match was at 0.11.  CW̵...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

OSCARLAND: Why and Why Not?

  Here are links to all our Oscarland “Why and Why Not” pieces, running through the rationales for and against all the nominees in the major Academy Award categories: Best Picture Best Director Best Actor Best ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED’S WEDNESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 6/26/13

  Big Brother wasn’t so big last night. CBS:  BIG BROTHER premiered with a 2.1 preliminary adult 18-49 rating last night, down half a point from the 2.6 rating last year when it premiered in its more traditional pos...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 10/23/16

  OPENINGS:  BOO! A MADEA HALLOWEEN (Lionsgate) took the weekend with $27.6M, Tyler Perry’s biggest start since the $29.3M for 2010’s Why Did I Get Married Too.  Perry’s movies tend to run out of steam ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SKEDBALL: MLB Homerun Derby Clears the Fences

ESPN and MLB tinkered with the Homerun Derby format this year, adding a clock and moving to a bracket format.  It all worked, with the best persons 2+ audience for the ESPN special (7.1 million) since 2009 (8.25 million).  Th...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Dallas”

  The title of tonight’s season finale of DALLAS was “Revelations,” but really it had only one reveal worthy of a SPOILER ALERT, and even that one was increasingly guessable as the hour went on, for anyon...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY EARLY FRIDAY BOXOFFICE REPORT – 11/2/12

  The weekend looks bright for a couple of the new openings.  According to preliminary numbers at Deadline, WRECK-IT RALPH (Disney) had a $13.5M opening day, on its way to a $50M weekend.  If those numbers hold, the week...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Thursday 9.22.2022 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED with NFL TNF

  BROADCAST FINALS [CHART UPDATED WITH NFL THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL on AMAZON] ABC:  After an episode of CELEBRITY FAMILY FEUD at 0.45, the special NORMAN LEAR: 100 YEARS was at 0.29. CBS:  Sandwiched between reruns at 0....
by Mitch Metcalf