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THE SKED Season Premiere Review: “Covert Affairs”

  COVERT AFFAIRS:  Tuesday 10PM on USA Last season, Season 4 of USA’s COVERT AFFAIRS took a turn for the dark, with mixed results.  It was a relief to see CIA agent Annie Walker (Piper Perabo) finally act like an a...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Weekend Box Office Predictions JUNE 27-29

Weekend #26 of 2014 (the halfway mark for the year already) is looking like $175 million for the top 12 films this weekend, 8% below the norm for this weekend and 4% below the same weekend last year, which featured two modera...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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UPDATED: THE SKED CABLE/NETWORK TUESDAY SCORECARD – 6/24/14

  NETWORK UPDATE:  No changes at all. TUESDAY CABLE:  Despite weeks of hype, TYRANT didn’t have much of a launch for FX with 0.6 (subsequent re-airings added 0.3 and 0.15)–and given its quality issues and lack of...
by Mitch Salem
 
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WORLD CUP SKEDBALL: Day 13

Ratings for the simultaneous double-headers on ESPN and ESPN2 Tuesday have been added to the chart below. World Cup to Date:  2014 is now 69% ahead of 2010 in terms of the total audience (persons aged 2+).  Further, 2014 is 5...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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Pilot Reports

THE SKED Series Premiere Review: “Tyrant”

  TYRANT:  Tuesday 10PM on FX – If Nothing Else Is On… For better or worse, it may be particularly unfair to judge FX’s new TYRANT on the basis of its pilot alone.  There’s been an unusual amount ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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2014-15 TV Season

THE SKED: CBS Fall Premiere Schedule

  CBS is launching the bulk of its fall schedule during the broadcast networks’ official Premiere Week, Sept 22-28, but with a few exceptions, including a slightly early kick-off for its Sunday shows, and some shifts...
by Mitch Salem
 
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UPDATED: THE SKED CABLE/NETWORK MONDAY SCORECARD – 6/23/14

  NETWORK UPDATE:  AMERICAN NINJA WARRIOR lost 0.1 in final numbers.  In addition, the LAST COMIC STANDING rerun gained 0.1, while the rerun WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY dropped 0.1. MONDAY CABLE:  As detailed in the newest WORL...
by Mitch Salem
 
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WORLD CUP SKEDBALL: Day 12

Ratings for the simultaneous double-headers on ESPN and ESPN2 Monday have been added to the chart below.  Some real clunkers, including the Spain vs Australia match at 11:30 am on ESPN2, now the lowest-rated match of 2014. Wor...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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UPDATED: THE SKED CABLE/NETWORK SAT/SUN SCORECARD – 6/21-22/14

  NETWORK UPDATE:  On Saturday, no one cared very much about the final 2 hours of CRISIS, moved off its usual Sunday berth to an ignominious 0.5/0.6.  But at least it did better than ABC’s burn-off of THE ASSETS, h...
by Mitch Salem
 
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WORLD CUP SKEDBALL: Day 10 & 11

Saturday and Sunday results for ESPN added to the table below.  ABC’s Sunday results to come later this week. If you are looking for an earlier match not listed in today’s Top 10, please visit previous versions of ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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WORLD CUP SKEDBALL: Day 9

Friday’s matches on ESPN did just okay ratings.  Nothing spectacular for 2014 (the three matches ranking #17, #18 and #20 out of 26 through Friday) but still better than 2010.  The ratings you all really want to see (t...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday June 21 and Sunday June 22, 2014. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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THE SKED Season Premiere Review: “True Blood”

  TRUE BLOOD:  Sunday 9PM on HBO You don’t typically associate HBO with “guilty pleasure”–even its genre shows, from The Sopranos to Boardwalk Empire to Game of Thrones, have the weight of dram...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED Series Premiere Review: “The Last Ship”

  THE LAST SHIP:  Sunday 9PM on TNT – If Nothing Else Is On… Post-apocalypses are a dime a dozen on television these days, so a new one had better be something special.  The one in TNT’s new THE LAST ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED Season Premiere Review: “Falling Skies”

  FALLING SKIES:  Sunday 10PM on TNT After a falsely cheerful minute or two, the Season 4 premiere of TNT’s sturdy post-apocalyptic alien war saga FALLING SKIES set to work establishing its lines of battle for thi...
by Mitch Salem
 
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