Posts Tagged ‘spotlight’
 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Pilot + 1 Review: “Forever”

  FOREVER:  Tuesday 10PM on ABC Previously… on FOREVER:  Henry Morgan (Ioan Gruffudd) is a New York medical examiner with a secret:  he’s been alive for 200 years.  It’s not that he can’t be kil...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 25 Monday Cable Originals (& Network Update): 9.22.2014

  NETWORK UPDATE:  ABC benefited most from the adjusted ratings for Monday night, with both DANCING WITH THE STARS and the preview of FOREVER gaining 0.2.  The 8PM episode of THE BIG BANG THEORY found an extra 0.1 (unli...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY NETWORK SCORECARD – 9.22.2014

  None of the networks had very much to complain about last night, as the fall TV season officially got under way. CBS:  THE BIG BANG THEORY handily won the 8PM showdown with episodes at 5.3/5.4, comparable with the 5.3/5...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 25 Sunday Cable Originals: 9.21.2014

  NETWORK UPDATE:  MADAM SECRETARY stayed put, but THE GOOD WIFE gained 0.1 in final numbers, as did the final FOX episode of AMERICAN DAD (it’s moving to TBS).  60 MINUTES lost 0.1.  SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL adjust...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 25 Saturday Cable Originals: 9.20.2014

  Ratings in key demos for the Top 25 original cable telecasts Saturday (plus a few other lower-rated but noteworthy programs): COLLEGE FOOTBALL on ESPN dominated SATURDAY CABLE, taking up all of the top 6 slots for the da...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “Sleepy Hollow”

  SLEEPY HOLLOW:  Monday 9PM on FOX SLEEPY HOLLOW turned out to be the best news FOX would get all of last season.  Although the show’s ratings dropped somewhat from their initially remarkable heights during its 13...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “The Blacklist”

  THE BLACKLIST:  Monday 10PM on NBC THE BLACKLIST was a game-changing smash for NBC last season, in combination with The Voice solidifying the network’s hold on Mondays to such an extent that the night, along with ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Under the Dome”

  UNDER THE DOME went rather bonkers in its second season, apparently flummoxed by the fact that it existed at all.  Dome had originally been conceived as a limited summer series that, like the Stephen King novel which in...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 25 Friday Cable Originals: 9.19.2014

  FRIDAY NETWORK UPDATE:  20/20 gained 0.1 in final numbers, but UTOPIA remained at its dismal 0.5. Ratings for Friday’s Top 25 original cable telecasts in key demos (plus a few other lower-rated but noteworthy p...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

PREMIERING TONIGHT: SHOWBUZZDAILY Pilot Review – “Gotham”

  GOTHAM:  Monday 8PM on FOX – If Nothing Else Is On… PLAYERS:  Batman (and if we’re being honest, Christopher Nolan, even though he has nothing to do with this show).  Series creator Bruno Heller, who...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

PREMIERING TONIGHT: SHOWBUZZDAILY Pilot Review – “Scorpion”

  SCORPION:  Monday 9PM on CBS starting – Worth A Look PLAYERS:  The real-life hacker Walter O’Brien, on whose adventures Scorpion is (very loosely) based–and who is also an Executive Producer on the sh...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings 9.20-21.2014

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday September 20 and Sunday September 21, 2014. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television po...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Network Scorecard – 9.21.2014

  Almost there… CBS:  The network used the eve of the fall TV season to launch MADAM SECRETARY.  The night started with a big boost from the 8.3 overtime of the Seattle/Denver Super Bowl rematch, which went into pr...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “The Good Wife”

  Season 6 of THE GOOD WIFE has a tough act to follow:  its own dazzling Season 5, which brought the show back from previous signs of subdued middle age and established it once again as one of the best shows on any form o...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 9/21/14

  OPENINGS:  THE MAZE RUNNER (20th) is off to a healthy start worldwide, leading the US with $32.5M and overseas with $37.9M, the latter in 47 territories (and such major areas as Western Europe and China still to come).�...
by Mitch Salem