Posts Tagged ‘spotlight’
 

 

Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 5/15/16

  OPENINGS:  MONEY MONSTER (TriStar/LStar/Sony) held up well over the course of the weekend, thanks to an older audience that doesn’t rush out on Friday nights, and tripled its opening day to a $15M weekend total. ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY LA FILM FEST REVIEW: “Ruby Sparks”

  RUBY SPARKS:  Worth A Ticket – A Narrative Feat   Woody Allen is one of the most influential figures in modern independent film, but his ghost is usually evident in the many romantic comedy-dramas we get each...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Friday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 4.16.2021

        NETWORK FINALS:  Quite a few adjustments to the next tenth, for SHARK TANK, 20/20, MACGYVER, THE BLACKLIST and WWE SMACKDOWN.          Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings C...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office Report – 9.6.2020

  OPENINGS:  The hugely-anticipated US opening box office numbers for TENET (Warners) turned out to be frustratingly opaque to interpret, and to the extent they were comprehensible, simply not very good.  (Let’s as...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Friday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 6.15.2018

        NETWORK FINALS:  After adjustment for NY baseball preemption, CW’s line-up fell to 0.2/0.2 for WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY and 0.1 for the series finale of LIFE SENTENCE.  In addition, 20/20 lost...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

THE SKED: “About A Boy” Has Blah Post-Olympics Preview

  Everyone knows that the shine of a post-Olympics “preview” berth doesn’t last long–just ask 2012’s Go On and Animal Practice.  But it’s at least supposed to provide a new show with a ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

Top Cable and Broadcast Programs of the Week

Top programs of the week on cable and broadcast networks:  
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

THE SKED’S TUESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 6/17/12

NBC stumbles toward the Olympics. NBC:  AMERICA’S GOT TALENT continued to fall as it heads to its season finale, with a 2.6 that (barely) won its hours but was down from last week.  LOVE IN THE WILD edged up a bit to 1,...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

EARLY WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: “Apes” Keep Rising

  Good word of mouth kicked in for DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (20th) on Saturday, according to preliminary numbers at Deadline and elsewhere, giving the movie a 5-10% drop from its Thursday night/Friday numbers to $25-...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED Pilot + 1 Review: “Bad Teacher”

  BAD TEACHER:  Thursday 9:30PM on CBS Previously… on BAD TEACHER:  As in the movie, Meredith (Ari Graynor in the Cameron Diaz role) is teaching grade school strictly as a way of meeting the rich fathers of her stu...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY TUESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 12.22.2015

  Another holiday night dominated by reruns. 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), audie...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

Year to Date Box Office & Worldwide Studio Scorecard 2.12.2017

WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD.  Updated look at 2016 films by studio.  We will begin tracking the 2017 very soon.   YEAR TO DATE BOX OFFICE. Looking at North American box office, 2017 to date is now +2% above last year an...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

THE SKED’S PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “Defiance”

  DEFIANCE:  Monday 9PM on Syfy Previously… on DEFIANCE:  Now that the usual post-apocalyptic interstellar warfare is over, a variety of alien races live alongside the remaining humans on Earth.  In the town that ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Wednesday 5.4.2022 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  THE GOLDBERGS returned from a rerun week down 0.05 to 0.44, followed by a WONDER YEARS rerun at 0.26, then THE CONNERS was back from reruns down 0.03 to 0.40, followed by a HOME ECONOMICS rerun at...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

The Sked: Saturday Network Scorecard 5.13.2017

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