Posts Tagged ‘spotlight’
 

 

THE SKED Season Premiere Review: “Unforgettable”

  UNFORGETTABLE:  Sunday 9PM on CBS – If Nothing Else Is On… You may already have forgotten UNFORGETTABLE.  It debuted in fall 2011 as one of CBS’s seemingly inexhaustible supply of procedurals, its par...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY MONDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 7.17.2017

  A good night for ABC. 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 18-4...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Falling Skies”

  FALLING SKIES told a somewhat different story this season under showrunner Remi Aubuchon than it had in its first two years, and the changes worked fairly well for the most part.  Tom Mason (Noah Wyle) and his plucky ba...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “The Good Wife”

  In its 6th season, THE GOOD WIFE continued to delightfully flout every depressing lesson the rest of network television tells us.  Under the remarkable stewardship of Robert and Michelle King, the series turns out seaso...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL REVIEW: “Tracks”

  There’s no cutesiness to be found in John Curran’s film TRACKS, a bracingly non-Disneyfied true-life nature tale.  In the mid-1970s, a young Australian woman named Robyn Davidson decided to walk across almo...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

Weekend Studio Estimates 5.15-17.2015

Based on Friday’s and Saturday’s grosses, weekend #20 of 2015 now looks like $178 million for the top 12 films Friday-Sunday, a little better than yesterday’s estimate ($172 million) and now solidly above th...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

The Sked: Saturday Network Scorecard 8.19.2017

NOTE: Ratings below for all networks inflated by local pre-emptions for eight NFL Preseason games in 16 television markets. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY SUNDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 5.24.2015

  Hardly anyone was interested in network TV on the Sunday of holiday weekend. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary key advertiser demographics (adult 18-3...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

THE SKED’S SUNDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 8/25/13

  The regular season hasn’t started yet, but the NFL is already in charge. NBC:  Per Mitch Metcalf, although preliminary numbers have the Sunday night NFL PRESEASON FOOTBALL game at a 2.1, we anticipate that final n...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Game of Thrones”

  The seventh season of HBO’s blockbuster GAME OF THRONES, its most watched and in some ways most confounding, was shaped by two outside factors, and possibly a third.  Series creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED’S MONDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 9/2/13

  For the most part, Labor Day brought the networks some modest increases. ABC:  MISTRESSES may be gaining some momentum at the right time, as its 2d try at 9PM (and penultimate episode of the summer) increased a healthy ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 100 Tuesday Cable Originals (& Network Update): 6.9.2015

  NETWORK UPDATE:  Game 3 of the NBA FINALS adjusted up to 7.3 in final numbers, and JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE adjusted to 1.1.  In addition, HELL’S KITCHEN received a 0.1 boost. CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  PRETTY LITTLE LIARS (A...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

The Sked: WEDNESDAY Ratings Chart

Wednesday ratings for last night, last year and last week.  Night 3 of Million Second Quiz slumped to a 1.2 adult 18-49 rating (three night track: 1.7…1.5…1.2), as its competition got significantly stiffer (the ear...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

Weekend Box Office Predictions 6.19-21.2015

Weekend #25 of 2015 is looking like $202 million for the top 12 films this weekend, significantly above the norm for the same weekend the past few years and way above last year’s misfire on this weekend (see comparison...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

International Box Office through September 22

Updated international box office chart:
by Mitch Metcalf