Posts Tagged ‘spotlight’
 

 

THE SKED SERIES PREMIERE REVIEW: “The White Queen”

  THE WHITE QUEEN – Saturday 9PM on Starz – Worth A Look Starz’s THE WHITE QUEEN is, apart from a bit of nudity (this is pay cable, after all), a rather old-fashioned historical bodice-ripper.  The bodic...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

Year to Date Box Office & Worldwide Studio Scorecard 1.12.2020

WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD.  Here is an updated look at the 2019 film slates by studios (films entering wide release in the 2019 calendar year), including worldwide box office for those films during 2020. We will begin the tra...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “Killing Eve”

  KILLING EVE:  Sunday 8PM on AMC/BBCAmerica AMC very much wants KILLING EVE to be its next big thing.  The critical and awards-season darling spent its first season on the network’s subsidiary BBCAmerica service, ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY WEDNESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 4.1.2015

  CBS will be glad THE DOVEKEEPERS has run out of birds. 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
 

 

 

WEEKEND STUDIO ESTIMATES October 12-14

The weekend still looks like a very good $123 million for the top 12 films, a little better than it looked yesterday.  Argo and Sinister flipped places in the weekend rankings.  Argo opened with $5.93 million Friday and ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Wednesday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 7.28.2021

      Analysis to follow.       Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   Top 50 Original Cable Telecasts with Demographic Detail Top 150 Original Cable Telecasts To search for a show:...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Atlanta”

  Donald Glover’s ATLANTA would have been unimaginable on a mainstream television outlet just a few years ago–let alone as a show that could achieve success in the ratings.  It’s very much a post-Louie s...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “Spectre” and “Peanuts” Bring Hollywood Back

  After several painful weekends burdened by one high-profile flop after another, Hollywood was bailed out by two of its most venerable franchises. SPECTRE (MGM/Columbia/Sony) will be, based on preliminary numbers at Deadl...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED Pilot + 1 Review: “Murder In the First”

  MURDER IN THE FIRST:  Monday 10PM on TNT Previously… on MURDER IN THE FIRST:  San Francisco homicide detectives Terry English (Taye Diggs) and Hildy Mulligan (Kathleen Robertson) are investigating two crimes conn...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “The Fosters”

  There’s a reason why serialized dramas usually have some sort of “franchise” powering them:  a mystery to be solved, patients to be cured, a quest to be undertaken, etc.  Generating compelling stories...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

The Sked: FRIDAY Ratings 9.19.2014

Friday preliminary broadcast ratings: DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL The chart above goes beyond the adult 18-49 rating, adding other key advertiser sales demographics (adult 18-34 and 25-54 ratings), audience skews (women 18-49, men 18-49...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday June 21 and Sunday June 22, 2014. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 25 Tuesday Cable Originals (& Network Update): 2.3.2015

  NETWORK UPDATE:  All the adjustments were downward from this morning’s numbers, with 0.1 declines for THE MINDY PROJECT, SUPERNATURAL, MARRY ME, ABOUT A BOY and the 8:30PM rerun of PARKS & RECREATION. Ratings ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

SKEDBALL: Weekly Sports TV Ratings 6.29-7.5.2020

Here are the full week sports ratings (slowly coming back) for Monday June 29 through Sunday July 5, 2020.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 300K P2+ live+same da...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

NIELSENWAR 2014-15: The CBS Schedule – Grid and Instant Analysis

  The big news at CBS is that the network is reducing its Monday comedy block to 1 hour, while leaving 2 sitcom hours on Thursday.  Consequently, the network is adding only one new half-hour in the fall.  (There was no l...
by Mitch Salem