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EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: Hollywood Takes The Holiday Off

  Labor Day weekend is always the exhausted last gasp of the summer movie season, but this year the studios didn’t even try.  Partly it’s the effect of August having generally been a disaster in 2015 (last yea...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 100 Thursday Cable Originals (& Network Update): 9.3.2015

  NETWORK UPDATE:  Because of the many NFL PRESEASON preemptions, comparisons are to last Thursday’s finals rather than this morning’s preliminary numbers.  ABC:  after an 0.5 BEYOND THE TANK rerun (down�...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY THURSDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 9.3.2015

  NOTE: Thursday fast nationals for all broadcast networks are inflated by a high number of local NFL PRESEASON pre-emptions. ABC pre-emptions include: Washington DC (Ravens), Houston and Cleveland. CBS pre-emptions: New ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Mistresses”

  MISTRESSES faced some challenges in its 3rd season.  Two were interrelated:  for budget reasons, the network and studio decided to relocate the production to Vancouver, and that prompted marquee star Alyssa Milano to d...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 100 Wednesday Cable Originals (& Network Update): 9.2.2015

  NETWORK UPDATE:  BIG BROTHER gained 0.1 in final numbers, but EXTANT fell 0.1 to a dangerously low 0.6.  The first half-hour of THE CARMICHAEL SHOW also dropped 0.1, while LAST COMIC STANDING gained the same.  On A...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY WEDNESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 9.2.2015

  THE CARMICHAEL SHOW made an argument for a regular-season berth. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary key advertiser demographics (adult 18-34, 18-49 and ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Mr. Robot”

  Great TV dramas tend to arrive on our screens fully-formed.  (The same isn’t true of comedies, which sometimes take an entire season to find their voices.)  By the end of the first hours of The Sopranos, Mad Men,...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Weekend Box Office Predictions 9.4-6.2015

Weekend #36 of 2015 is looking like $54 million for the top 12 films this weekend, a touch better than last year but still below the norm for this weekend, normally the slowest of the year (see comparisons below). The Transpo...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 100 Tuesday Cable Originals (& Network Update): 9.1.2015

  NETWORK UPDATE:  AMERICA’S GOT TALENT gained 0.1 in final numbers, and HOLLYWOOD GAME NIGHT lost the same.  Also, as expected the CW reruns each went down 0.1 after the sports preemptions were adjusted out. CA...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY TUESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 9.1.2015

  HOLLYWOOD GAME NIGHT got more playful. 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 ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 100 Monday Cable Originals (& Network Update): 8.31.2015

  NETWORK UPDATE:  RUNNING WILD lost 0.1 in final numbers.  It’s worth noting that the high preliminary ratings for PENN & TELLER: FOOL US (0.6) and WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY (0.7) didn’t lose anything aft...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Tyrant”

  TYRANT went all the way back to the source for its main plotline this season, giving Bassam Al-Fayeed (Adam Rayner) a saga so Moses-like that he might as well have witnessed a burning bush along the way.  Bassam was sen...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Scream”

  The MTV version of SCREAM nailed its own problem back in the pilot, courtesy of its one-man meta machine Noah (John Karna)–but diagnosing one’s own illness is a long way from curing it.  A TV series, indeed,...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY MONDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 8.31.2015

  Things cooled down for BACHELOR IN PARADISE last night. 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 ra...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 100 Sunday Cable Originals (& Network Update): 8.30.2015

  NETWORK UPDATE:  NBC’s PRESEASON FOOTBALL game (Arizona vs. Oakland) adjusted up by half a point to 2.4 in final numbers.  In addition, BIG BROTHER gained 0.1, as did the 7:30PM BOB’S BURGERS rerun (which...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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