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FRIDAY 1.2.2015 Box Office Report

Based on Friday’s grosses, weekend #1 of 2015 looks like $140 million for the top 12 films Friday-Sunday, up from the norm for this weekend and up somewhat from the same weekend last year.   Opening at 2,602 theaters Fri...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Festival Capsule Reviews

  When push came to shove, a choice had to be made between The Birth of A Nation and “the farting corpse movie” (AKA Swiss Army Man), and your faithful narrator has to confess that he went with the former, so a...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Broadcast News & Late Night Series 1.4-1.10.2021

Broadcast news and late night series ratings available below for this week and the same week last year. You can also search for other available weeks with the link at the bottom of this post. Week 2: January 4-10, 2021 Broadcas...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Wednesday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 8.23.2017

        NETWORK FINALS:  BIG BROTHER rose 0.1 in final numbers, while the 9PM MARLON, SALVATION, and the reruns of SVU and SPEECHLESS lost the same.  MASTERCHEF was rated as 2 separate episodes at 1.0/1.1.  A...
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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “Wayward Pines”

  WAYWARD PINES:  Wednesday 9PM on FOX WAYWARD PINES was never intended to be a continuing series, especially once FOX dumped what was once intended as a prestige project from Executive Producer M. Night Shyamalan into it...
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EXPANDED SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Thursday Cable Originals & Network Update: 11.19.2015

      NETWORK UPDATE:  As expected, football adjustments lowered CBS’s numbers, although not as drastically as last week’s.  THE BIG BANG THEORY remained at 3.8 (up 0.1 from last week’s final)...
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SHOWBUZZDAILY SUNDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 8.7.2016 — with OLYMPIC UPDATE

  OLYMPICS ratings remained down, but took a step in the right direction. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary key advertiser demographics (adult 18-34, 18...
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ShowbuzzDaily’s Oscars Live-Blog

This is already an Oscars like no other, thanks to the Academy’s decision–at the behest of ABC and its concern over ratings–to give out 8 awards before the telecast begins, with brief taped excerpts to air thr...
by Mitch Salem
 
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BEHIND THE WEEKEND BOX OFFICE – 1/5/13

  OPENINGS:  PARANORMAL ACTIVITY: THE MARKED ONES (Paramount), with its $18.2M weekend, made less at 2867 theatres than the first Paranormal made at 760, a little more than 4 years ago.  It was also well below the $29M w...
by Mitch Salem
 
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UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Wednesday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 2.17.2016

    NETWORK FINALS:  It’s not clear why, but CBS took something of a hit in final numbers, as SURVIVOR was down 0.1, and both THE BIG BANG THEORY rerun and CODE BLACK fell 0.2.  In addition, SVU and THE GOLDBE...
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NIELSENWAR: “The Good Wife” and the Best Showrunner Emmy That Doesn’t Exist

  NOTE:  Weekly and Season To Date Ratings Charts Are Below The war is over:  victory is television’s (make that “television”), which after decades of being considered the Fredo Corleone of dramatic nar...
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Year to Date Box Office & Worldwide Studio Scorecard 10.21.2018

WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD.  Here is an updated look at the 2018 film slates by studio. The studio totals also include 2018 dollars for films released in late 2017. YEAR TO DATE BOX OFFICE. Looking at North American box offic...
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THE SKED REVIEW: “Saturday Night Live” with Kerry Washington

  For Jay Pharoah and Kenan Thompson–but especially Pharoah–this week must have felt like alternate-universe SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, because with Kerry Washington as host, suddenly he was the show’s featured...
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Behind the Friday Box Office – 3/21/14

  What was supposed to be an exciting pre-summer weekend at the box office is instead looking rather blah. OPENINGS:  Compared to recent YA disasters like The Mortal Instruments and Beautiful Creatures, DIVERGENT (Summit/...
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UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Saturday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 11.14.2020

        NETWORK FINALS:  ABC’s COLLEGE FOOTBALL game adjusted to 1.2, and FOX’s game adjusted to 0.7.  In addition, 48 HOURS and the SNL rerun gained 0.1 in final numbers.       &nbs...
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