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SHOWBUZZDAILY FRIDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 2.27.2015

  On a night dotted with reruns, viewers weren’t really enthused about anything. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary key advertiser demographics (ad...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: Middling “Focus” Sharp Enough For Win; “Lazarus” Stays Dead

  You’ll be hearing quite a bit of spin over the next few days about how relatively inexpensive FOCUS (RatPac Dune/Warners) was to produce, $50-65M depending on the source.  That number, however, ignores the lavish ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 25 Thursday Cable Originals (& Network Update): 2.26.2015

  NETWORK UPDATE:  AMERICAN IDOL and THE BLACKLIST each gained 0.1 in final numbers, as did the BIG BANG THEORY rerun.  The VAMPIRE DIARIES rerun lost 0.1. Ratings in key demos for the Top 25 original cable telecasts (p...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY THURSDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 2.26.2015

  Considering the number of events on the air, a surprisingly stable night. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary key advertiser demographics (adult 18-34, ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “How To Get Away With Murder”

  A weaker show than HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER would be crippled by its sizable flaws.  With the all-important exception of its central character, Philadelphia law professor and expert criminal lawyer Annalise Keating, ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY Pilot + 1 Review: “The Odd Couple”

  THE ODD COUPLE:  Thursday 8:30PM on CBS Previously… on THE ODD COUPLE:  You know the drill.  Oscar Madison (Matthew Perry) is an emotionally superficial slob sportswriter, his old friend Felix Unger (Thomas Lenn...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 25 Wednesday Cable Originals (& Network Update): 2.25.2015

  NETWORK UPDATE:  Another 0.1 for EMPIRE pushed the blockbuster to 5.4 in final numbers, and AMERICAN IDOL gained a tenth as well.  In addition, SURVIVOR and ARROW gained 0.1.  However, BLACK-ISH, NASHVILLE and THE 100...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY WEDNESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 2.25.2015

  Yep:  EMPIRE was up again. 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 skews (wome...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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AUDIENCE MAP: Awards Shows

The AUDIENCE MAP series continues with a look at the detailed demographics for major televised awards shows over the past year.  As a reminder, the audience shares for 30 distinct gender-age groups are displayed for each progr...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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Weekend Box Office Predictions 2.27-3.1.2015

Weekend #9 of 2015 is looking like $93 million for the top 12 films this weekend, significantly below the normal volume for this weekend (see track below). Opening at around 3,200 theaters Friday (above the 2,886 average theate...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 25 Tuesday Cable Originals (& Network Update): 2.24.2015

  NETWORK UPDATE:  There were quite a few 0.1 declines in final ratings, with FRESH OFF THE BOAT, NCIS, NCIS: NEW ORLEANS, NEW GIRL and TV’S HOTTEST COMMERCIALS all taking the hit.  Only THE VOICE gained 0.1 from t...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY TUESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 2.24.2015

  It was a good night for comedy. 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 skews (...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Finale Review: “Parks & Recreation”

  The final hour of PARKS & RECREATION was more conceptual than one might have expected, in a way that made it feel more like an epilogue than a conclusion.  Written by series co-creator/showrunner Michael Schur and s...
by Mitch Salem
 
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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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