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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Agent Carter”

  It remains a pop culture puzzle that Marvel can have such uninterrupted, unprecedented success as a producer of blockbuster movies, yet still not have cracked the code of TV, while DC, which is hurrying (perhaps too fast...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Girlfriends’ Guide To Divorce”

  THE GIRLFRIENDS’ GUIDE TO DIVORCE has made its way, at least somewhat, past a very shaky start–not so much in the ratings, which have remained mediocre (although steady enough for Bravo to declare its first s...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 25 Monday Cable Originals (& Network Update): 2.23.2015

  NETWORK UPDATE:  THE VOICE gained 0.1 in final numbers, but no such luck for THE NIGHT SHIFT, which stayed at 1.5 but was actually at 1.3 for 45 of its 60 minutes.  Similarly, GOTHAM rose 0.1, but the SLEEPY HOLLOW sea...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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The Sked: MONDAY Ratings 2.23.2015

  Even with THE VOICE back on the air, NBC’s problems persist. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary key advertiser demographics (adult 18-34, 18-49 a...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 25 Sunday Cable Originals (& Network Update): 2.22.2015

  NETWORK UPDATE:  THE OSCARS picked up an extra 0.2 in final numbers, but its 11.0 still put it down 2.1 from last year’s ceremony.  All 3 half-hours of the LIVE FROM THE RED CARPET special were down around 2 poin...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 25 Saturday Cable Originals: 2.21.2015

Ratings  in key demos or the Top 25 original cable telecasts (plus a few other lower-rated but noteworthy programs): ESPN’s COLLEGE BASKETBALL doubleheader topped Saturday cable at 0.64/0.59, with an afternoon game in 4...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “The Night Shift”

THE NIGHT SHIFT:  Monday 10PM on NBC THE NIGHT SHIFT was a workmanlike performer for NBC last summer, but its promotion to The Voice‘s lead-out on the network’s midseason schedule says more about the empty shelves ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Sleepy Hollow”

  Tonight’s Season 2 finale of SLEEPY HOLLOW conspicuously concluded in a way that could also serve as a series finale, a distinct possibility because this underwhelming season has left the series with ratings down 4...
by Mitch Salem
 
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OSCARLAND: Do the Oscars Need To Be Popular?

  Here’s a factoid:  during the 1970s, that halcyon decade when the rebel filmmaker inmates finally, if briefly. took over the Hollywood studio asylum, viewed by movie history ever since with wistful nostalgia, ev...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 25 Friday Cable Originals (& Network/Oscars Update): 2.20.2015

  OSCARS UPDATE:  The shortfall for last night’s ACADEMY AWARDS presentation was even worse in time zone-adjusted numbers, with the ceremony only up to 10.8, down 2.3 points from 2014.  Although a lot of the fault...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY SUNDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 2.22.2015

  It was a great night for BIRDMAN, but not so much for ABC. 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...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings 2.21-22.2015

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday February 21 and Sunday February 22, 2015. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television popu...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY Review: The Oscars

  There were no surprises of any scale at tonight’s ACADEMY AWARDS (a full list of winners is here) , and that went for the telecast, too.  Neil Patrick Harris was as personable a host as anticipated, and he/his wr...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Oscar Ballot Tip Sheet

In case you are staring at an Oscar ballot this afternoon or this evening and have no idea what to select, especially in the “down ballot” categories such as documentaries, foreign language film, or the technical aw...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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Year to Date Box Office & Worldwide Studio Scorecard 2.22.2015

WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD.  Here is the updated 2015 Scorecard, with Universal pulling past Warner Brothers by a nose.  Each studio has a nearly identical profile of its slate: one successful blockbuster, an expensive sci-fi...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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