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THE SKED Series Premiere Review: “Legends”

  LEGENDS:  Wednesday 9PM on TNT – If Nothing Else Is On… After serving as a home for middle-aged procedurals for years, TNT has done well with its recent run of more macho adventures like The Last Ship and Fa...
by Mitch Salem
 
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UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 100 Saturday Cable Originals & Network Update: 10.24.2015

  NETWORK UPDATE:  FOX’s Utah vs. USC COLLEGE FOOTBALL game rose 0.2 to 1.0, while ABC’s Ohio State vs. Rutgers game stayed at 1.6.  48 HOURS also gained 0.1. Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Char...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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The Sked: Saturday Network Scorecard 9.28.2019

DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary live+same day key advertiser demographics (adult 18-34, 18-49 and 25-54 ratings), audience skews (women 18-49, men 18-49 an...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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THE SKED’S PILOT + 2 REVIEW: “The Newsroom”

  Previously… On THE NEWSROOM:  Will McAvoy (Jeff Daniels) and his executive producer Mackenzie MacHale (Emily Mortimer), with the support and encouragement of News Division head Charlie Skinner (Sam Waterston) are ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Tuesday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 8.24.2021

        BROADCAST HIGHLIGHTS: ABC:  BACHELOR IN PARADISE was at 0.81, down 0.23 from Monday’s episode, and ULTIMATE SURFER was at 0.34, steady with Monday. CBS:  Reruns at 0.26-0.29. NBC:  AMERICA’...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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SKEDBALL: Weekly Sports TV Ratings 4.11-4.17.2022

Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday April 11 through Sunday April 17, 2022. Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 200K Persons 2+ live+same day). Programs ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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Film Festival

Sundance 2024 Film Reviews: “In the Summers” & “Stress Positions”

  IN THE SUMMERS (no distrib):  The winner of the Jury Prize in the US Dramatic Competition is a somewhat prototypical Sundance drama.  Alessandra Lacorazza Samudio’s semi-autobiographical story depicts four summer...
by Mitch Salem
 
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UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Monday Cable Originals & Network Update: 11.30.2015

    NETWORK UPDATE:  As expected, MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL adjustments lowered the NBC line-up, with THE VOICE down 0.2 to 2.8, and the two episodes of SUPERSTORE down 0.02 to 2.0 and down 0.03 to 1.6 (still not bad num...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 8/28/16

  OPENINGS:  DON’T BREATHE (Screen Gems/Sony) had an unusually strong Saturday for a horror movie, down just 1% from Friday (which, remember, these days includes Thursday night).  By way of comparison, Lights Out f...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE DAY AFTER: Oscar Thoughts

  There are 4 ways an Oscar night can be memorable: A Great Host:  Seth MacFarlane was bad–maybe not James Franco bad, but bad.  The ways he was bad, though, weren’t in any way unexpected.  Meta-gags and cou...
by Mitch Salem
 
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UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Saturday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 11.17.2018

        NETWORK FINALS:  FOX’s COLLEGE FOOTBALL game adjusted to 0.7.           Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Hallmark’s ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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SKEDBALL: March Madness 2016 through Friday 3.18

Through Friday (the second and final day of the Round of 64), the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament turned positive for CBS versus the past three years (up +10% in total viewers 2+ and up +7% with persons 18-49), joining T...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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BEHIND THE WEEKEND BOX OFFICE – 8/11/13

  Here’s an instructive piece of box office math, courtesy of Disney and The Lone Ranger.  Ranger cost (including worldwide marketing) about $350M all told, and it’s going to have global theatrical revenues of...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Tuesday 2.14.2023 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED

  BROADCAST FINALS:  Note that most shows were preempted by last week’s State Of the Union address, so unless otherwise noted, comparisons are to January 31. ABC:  THE ROOKIE dipped 0.05 to 0.48, THE ROOKIE: FEDS t...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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Midseason Premiere

SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “Wynonna Earp”

  WYNONNA EARP:  Friday 10PM on Syfy – Change the Channel Syfy has recently been trying to burnish its schlocky image with some more ambitious projects, most notably the time-travel thriller 12 Monkeys and The Magic...
by Mitch Salem
 
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