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ShowbuzzDaily Sundance 2022 Reviews: “God’s Country” & “Phoenix Rising”

  GOD’S COUNTRY (no distrib):  A deliberative character study that’s also a thriller of sorts, anchored by one of the best performances of Thandiwe Newton’s career.  When two hunters (Joris Jarsky and Y...
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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Monday 1.24.2022 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  Returning from a week off, THE BACHELOR gained 0.04 to 0.77.  Despite that lead-in, the series premiere of PROMISED LAND could only manage 0.22. CBS:  The newly-renewed sitcoms were both up:  T...
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ShowbuzzDaily Sundance 2022 Reviews: “Sharp Stick” & “Babysitter”

  SHARP STICK (no distrib):  Lena Dunham is certainly no stranger to the concept of art as provocation, but it’s difficult to understand what Sharp Stick, her first feature film in a dozen years, and her first solo ...
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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Sunday 1.23.2022 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  Returning from a rerun week, AMERICA’S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS gained 0.02 to 0.51, CELEBRITY WHEEL OF FORTUNE fell 0.19 to 0.43, SUPERMARKET SWEEP was also down 0.19 to 0.36, and THE ROOKIE lo...
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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Saturday 1.22.2022 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED

  BROADCAST FINALS:  The day was of course dominated by the NFL PLAYOFFS, with FOX’s primetime game at 9.93 and CBS’s afternoon game at 7.90.  NBC’s SNL fell a tenth to 0.92.  CW’s WORLD’S ...
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Broadcast News & Late Night Series 1.17-1.23.2022

Broadcast news and late night series ratings available below for this week and the same week last year. You can also search for other available weeks with the link at the bottom of this post. Week 4: January 17-23, 2022 Broadca...
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SKEDBALL: Weekly Sports TV Ratings 1.17-1.23.2022

Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday January 17 through Sunday January 23, 2022. Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 200K Persons 2+ live+same day). Progr...
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ShowbuzzDaily Sundance 2022 Reviews: “892” & “After Yang”

  892 (no distrib):  John Boyega’s turbo-charged performance fuels this true story.  In 2017, when Brian Brown-Easley (Boyega) entered a Wells Fargo branch in a suburb of Atlanta and informed the teller that his ba...
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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Friday 1.21.2022 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  SHARK TANK gained 0.05 to 0.65, and 20/20 fell a tenth to 0.44. CBS:  UNDERCOVER BOSS dropped 0.12 to 0.42, MAGNUM PI ticked down to 0.49, and BLUE BLOODS was up 0.05 to 0.53. NBC:  After a reru...
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ShowbuzzDaily Sundance 2022 Review: “My Old School”

  MY OLD SCHOOL (no distrib):  Although the story is apparently well-known in the UK, here the twisty tale that Jono McLeod unfurls in his documentary would constitute a spoiler, so we’ll leave things vague here.  ...
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ShowbuzzDaily Sundance 2022 Reviews: “Palm Trees and Power Lines,” “Am I OK?” and “Lucy and Desi”

  PALM TREES AND POWER LINES (no distrib):  Jamie Dack’s first feature film (from a script written with Audrey Findlay) means to unsettle, and it does.  17-year old Lea (Lily McInerny) is stuck in a dead-end Southe...
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ShowbuzzDaily Sundance 2022 Reviews: “Nanny,” “Good Luck To You, Leo Grande” & “Resurrection”

  NANNY (no distrib):  Think Netflix’s Maid, but as a (sort of) horror movie.  Aisha (Anna Diop) is an undocumented Senegalese immigrant in New York who works as a nanny for the daughter of a well-off couple, Amy (...
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ShowbuzzDaily’s Sundance 2022 Reviews: “Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul,” “Cha Cha Real Smooth” & “Alice”

  HONK FOR JESUS.  SAVE YOUR SOUL (no distrib):  Scandal-ridden mega-churches aren’t exactly fresh territory for screens big (The Tears of Tammy Faye) or small (The Righteous Gemstones), with tones that range from ...
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ShowbuzzDaily’s Sundance 2022 Reviews: “Living,” “Call Jane” & “Watcher”

  LIVING (no distrib):  Over the years, there’s periodically been talk about remaking Akira Kurosawa’s 1952 masterpiece Ikiru, including a rumored updated US version that would have starred Tom Hanks in the le...
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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Thursday 1.20.2022 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATE #3

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  The finale of WOMEN OF THE MOVEMENT dropped 0.05 to 0.40, and the final LET THE WORLD SEE was down 0.07 to 0.31. CBS:  YOUNG SHELDON rose a tenth to 0.83, UNITED STATES OF AL held at 0.53, GHOSTS...
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