Posts Tagged ‘spotlight’
 

 

The Sked: Saturday Network Scorecard 3.7.2020

Note: ABC and FOX 8-11 pm numbers below are slightly understated because live viewing on the west coast from 5-8 pm PT is not included. NBC 8:30-10:00 pm numbers below are slightly overstated because they contain live viewing o...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office Report – 11.22.2020

  OPENINGS:  With the pandemic raging throughout the country and about 20% fewer theatres open than last week, box office numbers plunged across the board.  There were no truly wide openings, but the Jackie Chan vehicle ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “The Sinner”

  THE SINNER:  Wednesday 10PM on USA – Change the Channel USA’s THE SINNER wants so, so much to be Prestige TV.  Alas, Derek Simonds’ 8-hour drama (based on a novel by Petra Hammesfahr) is more like an ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Thursday 2.3.2022 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  Back-to-back episodes of SOUL OF A NATION were at 0.29/0.21.  They were followed by a rerun of PROMISED LAND at 0.10. CBS:  Sitcom reruns at 0.52/0.48 were followed by BIG BROTHER: CELEBRITY EDI...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Thursday Cable Originals & Network Update: 1.21.2016

  NETWORK UPDATE:  MY DIET IS BETTER THAN YOURS is certainly effective at losing weight, down 0.1 in final numbers to a skeletal 0.6.  THE BLACKLIST, however, gained 0.1. Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Char...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY’S Top 25 Tuesday Cable Originals – 8/12/14

  But first: NETWORK UPDATE:  AMERICA’S GOT TALENT and FOOD FIGHTERS exchanged 0.1s in final numbers, with AGT gaining the additional tenth at FOOD FIGHTERS’ expense. Below is our Top 25 chart of last night...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

THE SKED’S SUNDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 1/27/13

Even the one football game no one cares about can score well enough to win the night. NBC:  The PRO BOWL, a game so uninteresting that there’s been recurring discussion about ending it altogether, had a 3.3 in preliminar...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Tuesday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 7.3.2018

        NETWORK FINALS:  The reruns of AMERICA’S GOT TALENT and WORLD OF DANCE swapped 0.1s in final numbers, respectively up and down.  In addition, the BULL rerun lost 0.1.       &nb...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Taken 2”

  TAKEN 2:  Watch It At Home – “Particular Set of Skills” Indeed   As silly sequels to mindless hits go, TAKEN 2 is fairly entertaining, at least for a while.  The first movie, of course, was a sur...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Monday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 10.29.2018

          NETWORK FINALS:  As expected, ABC’s DANCING WITH THE STARS and THE GOOD DOCTOR fell in final numbers to 0.9/1.0.  Elsewhere, HAPPY TOGETHER gained 0.1.       Broadcast O...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

FRIDAY JULY 4 Box Office Report

Based on Friday’s grosses, weekend #27 of 2014 looks like a truly awful $126 million for the top 12 films Friday-Sunday, 26% below the norm for this weekend and well below the $153.2 million weekend for the top 12 the las...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Tuesday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 3.30.2021

        NETWORK FINALS:  There were significant adjustments (to the next tenth) for BLACK-ISH and the reruns of THE MASKED SINGER, FBI and FBI: MOST WANTED.          Broadcast Official Nati...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings 9.6-7.2014

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday September 6 and Sunday September 7, 2014. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television popu...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Friday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 4.13.2018

        NETWORK FINALS:  As we noted on Saturday morning, since all the networks were disrupted by the 9PM presidential address, we’ll look at the Friday ratings more closely today now that we have ad...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

CRITICS AWARDS: The National Board of Review’s Day

  The National Board of Review is an organization whose members are largely unknown (and the opinions of whom are of zero interest), with an existence that gets noticed on exactly one day of the year, like that one groundh...
by Mitch Salem