Posts Tagged ‘spotlight’
 

 

FRIDAY 5.8.2015 Box Office Report

Based on Friday’s grosses, weekend #19 of 2015 looks like a wobbly $117 million for the top 12 films Friday-Sunday, well below the norm for this weekend. Opening at 3,003 theaters Friday, Hot Pursuit from Warner Broth...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

PREMIERING TONIGHT – THE SKED Pilot Review: “Enlisted”

  ENLISTED:  Friday 9:30PM on FOX  – Change the Channel Not all goofy, barely-functional family sitcoms are alike, and although FOX has paired the new ENLISTED with Raising Hope on its Friday schedule, the two aren...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

NIELSENWAR: The CBS Fall Schedule

  CBS doesn’t typically cultivate daring in its fall schedules, but this year it’s making one exception.  Here’s a quick look (new shows are in ALL CAPS, new timeslots are in italics): MONDAY Sept-Oct ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED: “Duck Dynasty” Season Premiere Takes Flight

  Amazingly, the phenomenon that is DUCK DYNASTY may still not have peaked.  Last night’s Season 4 premiere on A&E hit a new high, with 11.8M viewers (more than 2M more than April’s Season 3 finale), and a...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “Annabelle: Creation” Solid, “Nut Job 2″” & “Glass Castle” Weak

  ANNABELLE: CREATION (New Line/Warners) will easily take the weekend.  According to preliminary numbers at Deadline, opening day was $15.1M, slightly below the $15.5M for 2014’s original Annabelle, but Creation is ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED MIDSEASON PILOT REPORT: FOX’s “Rake”

  Read All Our Fall Pilot Reports here and Midseason Pilot Reports here. RAKE:  Thursday 9PM on FOX starting Midseason TBD – Worth A Look FOX’s high-profile midseason dramedy RAKE wastes no time in establishin...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

Top Cable and Broadcast Programs of the Week (through Wednesday)

An early look at the partial-week program rankings for broadcast and cable.
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

The Sked: Saturday Ratings 6.6.2015

DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary key advertiser demographics (adult 18-34, 18-49 and 25-54 ratings), audience skews (women 18-49, men 18-49 and adults 50+ s...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

Top Cable and Broadcast Shows of the Week (through Thursday)

The weekly rankings so far (through Thursday) for cable and broadcast programs.  In the official nationals, Thursday’s NFL season kickoff game (Baltimore at Denver) came in at a 10.3 rating with adults 18-49, the #1 show...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Professor Marston & The Wonder Women” & “In the Fade”

  PROFESSOR MARSTON AND THE WONDER WOMEN (Annapurna – Oct. 13):  In the hothouse of a film festival, movies that are unrelated inevitably begin to collide with each other in the viewer’s mind.  So it’s...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED Season Finale Review: “The Newsroom”

It is, to be honest, somewhat difficult to focus on the clatter of THE NEWSROOM on the same night that Breaking Bad aired one of the most devastating episodes in its history–which made it one of the most devastating h...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

Broadcast News & Late Night Series: 6.1-6.7.2020

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 23: June 1-7, 2020 Broadcast N...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

Top Cable & Broadcast Shows of the Week

Better late than never — the weekly ranking of the top telecasts on television the last two weeks.
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

SKEDBALL: Weekly Sports TV Ratings 6.15-6.21.2020

Here are the full week sports ratings (slowly coming back) for Monday June 15 through Sunday June 21, 2020.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 300K P2+ live+same d...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

THE SKED Season Premiere Review: “Once Upon A Time”

  ONCE UPON A TIME:  Sunday 8PM on ABC The Season 3 premiere of ONCE UPON A TIME didn’t step foot in Storybrooke, nor did it feature any flashbacks to pre-curse incarnations of the protagonists.  Whether this was a...
by Mitch Salem