Posts Tagged ‘spotlight’
 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Marriage Story” & “Bad Education”

  MARRIAGE STORY (Netflix – November 6 in theatres/December 6 streaming):  A film doesn’t have to be revolutionary to be great.  There may be no subjects more intensively depicted in movies and on television ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “Captain America” Smashes Records

  CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER (Disney) is as big as expected, and maybe even a little bigger.  Preliminary numbers at Deadline have it at up to $38M on Friday (that includes $10.2M from Thursday night), putting it...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Monday Cable Originals & Network Update: 12.14.2015

  NETWORK UPDATE:  After adjustment for MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL preemptions, both THE GREAT CHRISTMAS LIGHT FIGHT and THE GREAT HOLIDAY BAKING SHOW were 0.2 less great, respectively to 1.1 and 0.9.  On CBS, only SCORPION d...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

SKEDBALL: Weekly Sports TV Ratings 3.1-3.7.2021

Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday March 1 through Sunday March 7, 2021.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 200K Persons 2+ live+same day).  Program...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY FRIDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 3.17.2017

  Basketball led a slow night. 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 (wom...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

THE SKED Season Finale Review: “Glee”

  To use an analogy that’s unfortunately apt, GLEE is heading out the door like a Broadway diva who won’t admit that her voice is shot and she can’t remember her lines anymore.  The show probably would h...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Dead Man Down”

  DEAD MAN DOWN:  Watch It At Home – Effectively Moody Tale of Revenge Until its final reel, when it arrives pretty much where you thought it was going to go from the very start, and in a way even dumber than you ex...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

The Sked: Saturday Network Scorecard 9.14.2019

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

 

 

SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings 9.8-9.2018

Here are the weekend sports ratings for Saturday and Sunday September 8-9, 2018.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 300K P2+).  Programs are grouped by sport an...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Tuesday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 10.22.2019

        NETWORK FINALS:  Game 1 of THE WORLD SERIES adjusted to 3.1, down 0.6 from 2018’s Game 1.  In addition, IT’S THE GREAT PUMPKIN, CHARLIE BROWN gained 0.1 in final numbers.     ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Monday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 12.18.2017

        NETWORK FINALS:  As expected, ABC’s numbers dropped after NFL adjustment, THE GREAT CHRISTMAS LIGHT FIGHT by 0.1 and 2017 IN MEMORIAM by 0.2.  Elsewhere, POPSTAR’S BEST OF 2017 lost 0.1...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “Ballers”

  BALLERS:  Sunday 9PM on HBO – Change the Channel BALLERS is alarmingly ramshackle by HBO standards.  Of course, it’s got enough A-list lineage to justify it getting on the air several times over, with genui...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “Blood Drive”

  BLOOD DRIVE:  Wednesday 10PM on Syfy – If Nothing Else Is On… Syfy is in the midst of a rebranding, the focal point of which seems to be a new font for its logo.  Creatively, if the premiere of BLOOD DRIVE ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Monday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 5.18.2020

        NETWORK FINALS:  There were no changes from the preliminary Monday ratings.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  USA’s WWE t...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Finale Review: “Banshee”

  The fourth and final season of Cinemax’s BANSHEE felt more like an epilogue, or even a spin-off, than a climax.  It wasn’t the time jump between Seasons 3 and 4, or the shortened 8-episode order, or even the...
by Mitch Salem