Posts Tagged ‘spotlight’
 

 

THE SKED’S Friday-Monday Cable Scorecard – 5/3-6/13

  FRIDAY STARZ:  DA VINCI’S DEMONS stayed at an 0.2 rating in the 18-49 demo, and had a very slight increase among older viewers to give it 420K.  With such a serialized storyline, it seems unlikely to move much hi...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SKEDBALL: Special Preview Edition through Thursday 11/24

Special edition of SKEDBALL, a preview of the 11/21-27 weekly report with data for Monday 11/21 (including the USMNT first game in the World Cup) updated through Tuesday 11/22 and with Telemundo added. Data for Wednesday 11/23 ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

THE SKED SERIES FINALE REVIEW: “90210”

  To say that in its fifth and final season 90210 was running on fumes would be to disparage fumes.  The show, after a very bumpy start in which it ran through several developers and showrunners and tried far too hard to ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED’S THURSDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 9/13/12

FOX won the night, but has to be a little nervous. FOX:  The competition on Thursdays hasn’t even begun, with regular season programming still 2 weeks away, but at 3.2, THE X FACTOR couldn’t even hold onto its Wedn...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE PREDICTIONS August 3-5

Weekend #31 of 2012 looks more like a late August weekend: two films opening with very little excitement.  The top 12 films this weekend should total $116 million, down significantly from last year’s comparable weekend, ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

AUDIENCE MAP: Situation Comedies

The AUDIENCE MAP series continues with a look at the detailed demographics for broadcast network situation comedies.  As a reminder, the audience shares for 30 distinct gender-age groups are displayed for each program below. �...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Wednesday 11.2.2022 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  THE CONNERS dropped 0.06 to 0.50, THE GOLDBERGS slipped 0.02 to 0.39, ABBOTT ELEMENTARY lost 0.05 to 0.50, and HOME ECONOMICS was up 0.02 to 0.41.  BIG SKY was down 0.04 to 0.27. CBS:  SURVIVOR ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto 2014 Review: “St. Vincent”

  ST. VINCENT (Weinstein) – Opens October 24 – Worth A Ticket Bill Murray has perfected the persona of the grouchy, reluctant hero.  The image has even attached itself to him professionally:  although he̵...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

Behind the Friday Box Office – 3/21/14

  What was supposed to be an exciting pre-summer weekend at the box office is instead looking rather blah. OPENINGS:  Compared to recent YA disasters like The Mortal Instruments and Beautiful Creatures, DIVERGENT (Summit/...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

The Sked: Saturday Network Scorecard 4.21.2018

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
 

 

 

THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Revenge”

  Heroes probably still sets the bar for disastrous second seasons of initially enjoyable TV shows, but this year’s REVENGE came uncomfortably close.  ABC more or less acknowledged that fact when it (in a genteel, c...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED’S MONDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 2/25/13

CBS takes a hit. CBS:  The only good news of the night was that HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER held steady at 3.4 (although the episode itself was another “running in place” half-hour, as the show continues to put off reach...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Wednesday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 10.30.2019

        NETWORK FINALS:  Game 7 of the WORLD SERIES adjusted to 6.1, up 2 points from Game 6.  In addition, SURVIVOR and CHICAGO FIRE gained 0.1 in final numbers, while SEAL TEAM and SINGLE PARENTS lost th...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 10.22.2017

  OPENINGS:  BOO 2! A MADEA HALLOWEEN (Lionsgate) took the weekend with $21.7M, down 24% from last year’s first Boo.  That puts it behind all the previous Madea openings except A Madea Christmas, which had the enti...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

Behind the US/Worldwide Box Office – 4.23.2023

  OPENINGS:  EVIL DEAD RISE (Warners) modestly exceeded expectations with $23.5M, although that was still below the franchise’s last reboot in 2013 at $25.8M (which only reached a $54.2M total in the US and didnR...
by Mitch Salem