Posts Tagged ‘spotlight’
 

 

UPDATED: THE SKED CABLE/NETWORK SCORECARD – 5/1/14

  AFTERNOON UPDATE:  BAD TEACHER is already on life support, down another 0.1 in adjusted numbers to 1.4.  As often happens, THE BIG BANG THEORY gained 0.1 at the expense of THE MILLERS.  THE VAMPIRE DIARIES avoided tying i...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Friday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 6.11.2021

      Analysis to follow.       Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   Top 50 Original Cable Telecasts with Demographic Detail Top 150 Original Cable Telecasts To search for a show:...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

The Sked: Wednesday Ratings September 5 — Updated with Cable Ratings

NBC of course won last night handily with the first NFL game of the season.  Usually scheduled on the Thursday after Labor Day, the NFL moved the game to Wednesday out of deference to President Obama who gives his acceptance s...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “The Catch”

  THE CATCH:  Thursday 10PM on ABC – If Nothing Else Is On… Not much remains of the original pilot for ABC and ShondaLand’s THE CATCH, beyond its basic premise and some of the cast.  Original series c...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

NIELSENWAR 2014-15: More NBC Pick-Ups

  NBC picked up a handful of shows yesterday, but that was just the first installment, as an additional trio of new shows have been announced so far today.  2 are dramas and the other a comedy, and interestingly, all hail...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Tuesday 9.14.2021 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED

  BROADCAST FINALS: ABC:  BACHELOR IN PARADISE climbed 0.13 to 0.96, and ULTIMATE SURFER was up 0.09 to 0.31. CBS:  Reruns at 0.25-0.32. NBC:  AMERICA’S GOT TALENT gained 0.03 to 0.90, and a special FAMILY GAME FI...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Master”

  THE MASTER:  Worth A Ticket – The Title Describes the Filmmaker Our shorthand for describing movie directors, even great ones, is to compare them to other filmmakers.  So Quentin Tarantino is Sergio Leone plus ha...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

NIELSENWAR 2014-15: The Fox Schedule – Grid and Instant Analysis

  Just a day after NBC announced the end of its Thursday Must-See-TV block of comedies, FOX is breaking up its Animation Domination Sundays with a pair of live-action sitcoms.  There are plenty of changes to the FOX line-...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Thursday 9.30.2021 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED

  BROADCAST FINALS: ABC:  The season premiere of STATION 19 dropped from last season’s 1.1 to 0.76, while the season premiere of GREY’S ANATOMY fell from 1.3 (for a 2-hour episode) to 0.77.  BIG SKY relocated...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

THE SKED’S TUESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 9/18/12

NBC’s preseason continues to play out well. NBC:  GO ON has yet to face any real competition, but it held well with a 3.3 last night, and the episode was better structured than last week’s, with one central Matthew...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Peterloo” & “Viper Club”

  PETERLOO (Amazon – November 9):  Not so much a movie as an illustrated historical recitation.  Mike Leigh’s film concerns the brutal 1819 government militia attack on civilians listening to a public address...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

Weekend Box Office Predictions MAY 16-18

Weekend #20 of 2014 is looking like a solid $156 million for the top 12 films, 7% above the norm for this mid-May weekend. Opening at over 3,800 theaters Friday (well above the 2,886 average theater count for opening weekends...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

SKEDBALL: Weekly Sports TV Ratings 10.18-10.24.2021

Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday October 18 through Sunday October 24, 2021. Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 200K Persons 2+ live+same day). Progr...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

THE SKED PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “Revolution”

  A lot can happen between the creation of a TV pilot in the spring and the production of episodes for the regular season: a writing/producing team is hired, audience focus groups weigh in, networks and studios (which may ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

Year to Date Box Office & Worldwide Studio Scorecard

WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD.  The release of Godzilla has pushed Warner Brothers into second place, just behind Sony (each with around $1.3 billion worldwide to date in 2014).  20th Century Fox ($1.1 billion to date worldwid...
by Mitch Metcalf