Posts Tagged ‘spotlight’
 

 

The Sked: Olympics Ratings through Nine Nights

Fast national ratings indicate NBC is on track for an 8.3 rating with Adults 18-49 in prime time Saturday night, well below the same night in Beijing but on par with Athens and Sydney.  The 8.3 rating assumes NBC excluded the ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

THE SKED Review: “Saturday Night Live” with Seth Rogen

  It seemed that with experienced SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE host Seth Rogen returning to the show for his third visit tonight, SNL had a fair chance of continuing its mini-streak of worthwhile episodes after the Louis C.K. and A...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

Broadcast News & Late Night Series 5.17-5.23.2021

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 21: May 17-23, 2021 Broadcast ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Hell On Wheels”

  HELL ON WHEELS – Sunday 9PM on AMC WHERE WE WERE:  Building the transcontinental railroad.  Our antihero, former Confederate soldier Cullen Bohannon, joined the Union Pacific Railroad’s march to the west on...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

Behind the Weekend Box Office – 4/20/14

  OPENINGS:  THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 (Sony) won’t arrive in the US for almost 2 weeks, and so far it’s in only 14 international markets–and it was still the biggest story of the weekend, pulling in $47M...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

Broadcast News & Late Night Series 7.19-7.25.2021

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 30: July 19-25, 2021 Broadcast...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

WEEKLY BOX OFFICE ACTUALS & YEAR TO DATE August 13-19

The Past Week: Total Box Office Volume All films in wide release playing between August 13 and August 19 grossed a decent $196 million, up 7% from the four-year average for the comparable week and up 3% from the same week in 20...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Wednesday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 6.23.2021

      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
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY FRIDAY BOXOFFICE SCORECARD – 8/31/12

  OPENINGS:  THE POSSESSION (Lionsgate) will be a convincing winner over the holiday weekend, based on a Friday that more than doubled the gross of the #2 movie.  Its $6.1M was also 2/3 better than last year’s Labo...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “Allegiant” Falls Off the Wall, “Zootopia” Wins Again

  The failure of ALLEGIANT (Summit/Lionsgate) puts its studio in an unusually awkward position.  Even though Lionsgate may be able to put the 3rd Divergent movie on its books as a profit (most of the international rights ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED Pilot Review: “Penny Dreadful”

  PENNY DREADFUL:  Sunday 10PM on Showtime starting May 11 – Potential DVR Alert Showtime’s PENNY DREADFUL is an elegant addition to TV’s horror canon.  It’s been created and its initial 8-hour se...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Saturday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 7.24.2021

      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
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “The Company You Keep”

As soon as Robert Redford had enough clout to start generating his own movies, he began starring in and often producing some of the best politically-themed films of the 1970s, including The Candidate, Three Days of the Condor�...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

NIELSENWAR 2014-15: Housekeeping At NBC & CBS

  The pick-ups are mostly done, so today was a time for the networks to clean up after themselves with some decisions on existing shows: NBC canceled DRACULA and remains in negotiations on PARENTHOOD, with the big issue re...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Friday 9.17.2021 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED

  BROADCAST FINALS: ABC:  After a CORAZON DE AMERICA special at 0.22, 20/20 was at 0.28 compared to last week’s 0.48/0.43. CBS:  BIG BROTHER was at 0.63, followed by GREATEST #ATHOME VIDEOS at 0.19 and a BLUE BLOOD...
by Mitch Metcalf