Posts Tagged ‘spotlight’
 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY TUESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 12.16.2014

  THE VOICE fall finale had no trouble dominating the night, but that doesn’t mean it’s healthy. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary key adver...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

Weekend Box Office Predictions 12.19-21.2014

Weekend #51 of 2014 is looking like $147 million for the top 12 films this weekend, up 22% from the norm for this weekend and up 8% from the same weekend last year.   Opening at over 3,875 theaters Wednesday (well above the...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 25 Monday Cable Originals (& Network Update): 12.15.2014

  NETWORK UPDATE:  With football adjusted out, THE VOICE and STATE OF AFFAIRS each lost 0.1 in final numbers.  That pushed STATE to a new low 1.5, and ominously, it was at 1.3 by its last 15 minutes.  Football also resu...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies”

  THE HOBBIT:  THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES – Watch It At Home – The Best of the Hobbit Trilogy Is Still Just Its Tallest Dwarf It’s hard to get around the sad fact that Peter Jackson’s THE HOBBIT...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY MONDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 12.15.2014

  Afternoon adjustments will tell more of last night’s tale. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary key advertiser demographics (adult 18-34, 18-49 and ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 25 Sunday Cable Originals (& Network Update): 12.14.2014

  NETWORK UPDATE:  There was no relief for ONCE UPON A TIME’s series low in final numbers.  60 MINUTES lost 0.1 once the CBS football overrun was removed, and both BOB’S BURGERS and the rerun FAMILY GUY  gai...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

UPDATED CHART: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 25 Saturday Cable Originals: 12.13.2014

  Ratings in key demos for the Top 25 original cable telecasts (plus a few other lower-rated but noteworthy programs): As usual on Saturdays, sports took up most of the top cable slots.  The top-rated original show of the...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere (-ish) Review: “Hart of Dixie”

  CW is treating Season 4 of HART OF DIXIE as carelessly as its characters tend to treat each other.  The show’s return has been delayed until midseason, moved to the nether reaches of Friday nights, and its order c...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Miniseries Premiere Review: “Ascension”

  ASCENSION:  Mon-Wed 9PM on Syfy In the post-Battlestar Galactica era, Syfy has barely even seemed to be trying.  It’s rather sad:  at a point when nearly every network–even CBS!–has at least one subs...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 25 Friday Cable Originals (& Network Update): 12.12.2014

  NETWORK UPDATE:  THE AMAZING RACE gained 0.1 in final numbers. Ratings in key demos for the Top 25 original cable telecasts (plus a few other lower-rated but noteworthy programs): THE GOLD RUSH (Discovery) rounded up t...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY SUNDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 12.14.2014

  Unless it was for football, TV viewers were firmly in holiday non-watching mode. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary key advertiser demographics (adult ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings 12.13-14.2014

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday December 13 and Sunday December 14, 2014. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television popu...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Finale Review: “The Newsroom”

  As tonight’s series finale of THE NEWSROOM served to remind us, Aaron Sorkin isn’t one to shy away from sentiment, and one would like to think that on some level he was touched by how many of us celebrated th...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Pilot + 1 Review: “The Librarians”

  THE LIBRARIANS:  Sunday 8PM on TNT Previously… on THE LIBRARIANS:  In the long-term absence of head Librarian Flynn Carsen (Noah Wyle), a trio of apprentices preserve magical historical artifacts and keep the wor...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Midseason Finale Review: “Once Upon A Time”

  Even as ABC’s Agents of SHIELD suggests the limits of corporate/entertainment synergy, it’s been working out just fine for the same network’s ONCE UPON A TIME.  Whether the idea originated with the sho...
by Mitch Salem