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THE SKED Season Finale Review: “Resurrection”

  As bad as it is for a network when it launches a new series and no one shows up, in a way it has to be worse when the series premiere has a huge start–and then viewers drop away in droves once they’ve given i...
by Mitch Salem
 
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2014-15 TV Season

NIELSENWAR 2014-15: ABC and 20th Make Their Deal: 2 Pick-Ups, “Last Man Standing” Back

  Only those involved will likely ever know the details, but ABC and 20th Century Fox Television worked out whatever they needed to, and the result was a pick-up of LAST MAN STANDING and orders for 2 additional 20th sitcom...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 7.30.2023

  OPENINGS:  After last week’s Barbenheimer fireworks, the box office for new movies returned to earth–with a thud in the case of HAUNTED MANSION (Disney), which was at the bottom of projections at $24.2M.  W...
by Mitch Salem
 
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EXPANDED SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Wednesday Cable Originals & Network Update: 11.18.2015

  NETWORK UPDATE:  THE MIDDLE, ROSEWOOD, ARROW and SURVIVOR gained 0.1 in final numbers (in other words, every 8PM show except MYSTERIES OF LAURA), but SVU went 0.1 in the other direction. Broadcast Official Nationals Pr...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “Halt and Catch Fire”

  HALT AND CATCH FIRE:  Tuesday 10PM on AMC HALT AND CATCH FIRE is AMC’s charity project; every episode could bear a credit saying “This series is brought to you thanks to the generosity of The Walking Dead.&#...
by Mitch Salem
 
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UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Tuesday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 3.29.2016

        NETWORK FINALS:  THE VOICE and BROOKLYN NINE-NINE gained 0.1 in final numbers, while CHICAGO FIRE and BEYOND THE TANK lost the same.  (Since someone raised the question this morning, the more preci...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Black Lightning”

  Although it’s part of the CW/Greg Berlanti DC Comics assembly line, BLACK LIGHTNING, created by Salim Akil, has been strikingly different from its comrades.  So far, it hasn’t noticeably been part of the sha...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Pilot Reports

SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “Dr. Ken”

  DR. KEN:  Friday 8:30PM on ABC – Change the Channel It’s going to be a neck and neck battle this fall between ABC’s DR KEN and NBC’s Truth Be Told (which will soon air directly against it) as to ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Midseason Premiere

SHOWBUZZDAILY Pilot + 1 Review: “The Family”

  THE FAMILY:  Sunday 9PM on ABC Previously… on THE FAMILY:  Ten years after his disappearance and presumed death, a now-teen Adam Warren (Liam James) appears, freshly escaped from what he describes as a decade spe...
by Mitch Salem
 
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The Sked: Thursday Week Two

The second Thursday of the season is down a relatively modest 13% collectively for the broadcast networks (10.2 Adult 18-49 rating last night versus 11.7 last fall on this night). Thursday Night Football (Cardinals at Rams) on ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 11.6.2022

  OPENINGS:  ONE PIECE FILM: RED (Crunchyroll/Sony) opened at $9.5M, on the low end of recent national anime releases compared to Jujutsu Kaisen‘s $18M and Dragon Ball Super‘s $21.1M.  As is typical for the g...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings 4.30-5.1.2016

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday April 30 and Sunday May 1, 2016. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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Film Festival

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Disobedience” & “Roman J. Israel, Esq.”

  DISOBEDIENCE (no distrib):  Sebastian Lelio’s adaptation (with Rebecca Landiewicz) of Naomi Alderman’s novel is one of the surprises of the festival.  It would be perfectly reasonable for the idea of Rachel...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Film Festival

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “The Guilty,” “Lakewood” & “The Starling”

  THE GUILTY (Netflix – Oct. 1):  One way to cope with the challenges and costs of movie production during Covid is to limit the number of actors who have to be in front of the camera.  That’s tough for a thr...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SKEDBALL: Weekly Sports TV Ratings 11.8-11.14.2021

Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday November 8 through Sunday November 14, 2021. Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 200K Persons 2+ live+same day). Prog...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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