Posts Tagged ‘spotlight’
 

 

SBD AWARDWATCH: Movie/Miniseries Emmys

  The Emmy Awards are coming up on Sunday, and over the next few days, we’re going to take a look at the nominees in major categories, and what should–and will–win.  Today, the Movie/Miniseries section o...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Boy Erased” & “Vita & Virginia”

  BOY ERASED (Focus/Universal – November 2):  Joel Edgerton’s film is the second of the year concerning gay conversion therapy, and its tone is far more conventional than The Miseducation of Cameron Post.  Lu...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

Inside the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 4/10/16

  OPENINGS:  On such a razor-thin margin, the standings could change tomorrow with final numbers, but for now, THE BOSS (Universal) has the weekend edge with $23.48M, barely a nose ($45K) ahead of those creaky superheroes...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED Season Finale Review: “Person of Interest”

  The headlines have all been in PERSON OF INTEREST‘s favor this past season.  As stories of massive worldwide surveillance by the NSA and other agencies have continued to surface, what not so long ago looked like a...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Friday 10.22.2021 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  SHARK TANK dropped 0.05 to 0.39, and 20/20 was up 0.02 to 0.35. CBS:  SWAT lost 0.04 to 0.46, MAGNUM PI gained 0.03 to 0.43, and BLUE BLOODS was up 0.05 to 0.46. NBC:  HOME SWEET HOME shed 0.03 ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

THE SKED: “The Voice” Keeps Singing

  Wasting no time–and why should they?–NBC jumped on the strong ratings for last night’s first regular season episode of THE VOICE to renew the show for both Spring and Fall 2013.  The Spring renewal was...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Sunday 11.14.2021 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  AMERICA’S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS slipped 0.02 to 0.47, CELEBRITY WHEEL OF FORTUNE rose 0.07 to 0.51, SUPERMARKET SWEEP gained 0.02 to 0.37, and THE ROOKIE was up 0.03 to 0.33. CBS:  The netwo...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY’S BEHIND THE WEEKEND BOXOFFICE – 9/30/12

Audiences decide they want to see movies again. OPENINGS:  With the market starved for family entertainment (the last major animated opening was Ice Age 4 back in July), HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA (Sony) and its $43M smashed the Septe...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “Person Of Interest”

  It’s not paranoia if they really are after you, as the saying goes, and CBS’s PERSON OF INTEREST, a well-styled, relatively intelligent and ambitious action drama about mega-surveillance computer programs tha...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Monday 12.6.2021 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  BOY BAND HOLIDAY was at 0.53, followed by a Monday edition of THE BACHELORETTE at 0.47. CBS:  THE NEIGHBORHOOD gained 0.06 to 0.63, BOB HEARTS ABISHOLA was steady at 0.49, NCIS ticked down to 0.5...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

THE SKED’S SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “30 Rock”

  30 ROCK:  Thursday 8PM on NBC WHERE WE WERE:  Jack (Alec Baldwin) was divorcing his now-freed North Korean prisoner wife Avery (Elizabeth Banks).  Jenna (Jane Krakowski) was engaged to her Jenna-impersonator boyfriend...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere TV Review: “Camping”

  CAMPING:  Sunday 10PM on HBO Although HBO’s new comedy CAMPING is set in the great outdoors, it has the dynamics of a filmed play.  The concept is simple:  throw a number of mismatched characters together in a c...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

UPDATED: THE SKED CABLE/NETWORK SUNDAY SCORECARD – 6/1/14

  NETWORK UPDATE:  THE BACHELORETTE gained 0.1 from preliminary numbers. SATURDAY CABLE:  ORPHAN BLACK (BBCAmerica) slipped a tiny bit to 0.23, while IN THE FLESH was demoted to 11PM and stayed at 0.03.  In the 10PM slot, T...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Wednesday 12.29.2021 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATE #2

  BROADCAST FINALS:  On another holiday night of reruns, the results for each network were as follows:  ABC 0.19-0.34, CBS 0.67/0.29 (THE PRICE IS RIGHT AT NIGHT was easily the night’s highest-rated show), NBC 0.26...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED’S TUESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 10/9/12

NBC thanks whatever it worships for The Voice.  (Note:  there were an unusually large number of 0.1 victories and ties last night, so bragging rights to various slots may shuffle when final numbers are released this afternoon...
by Mitch Salem