Posts Tagged ‘spotlight’
 

 

THE SKED’S WEDNESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 7/24/13

  People really don’t care for the America’s Got Talent results show.  Discuss amongst yourselves. NBC:  AMERICA’S GOT TALENT plunged 0.6 from last week to 2.3.  However, that was roughly even with the...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY FILM REVIEW: “Blue Jasmine”

  BLUE JASMINE:  Worth A Ticket – Cate Blanchett Is Dazzling in Woody Allen’s Latest Woody Allen has made so many movies at such regular intervals, and they’re so thematically linked, that it’s tem...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

Weekend Box Office Predictions JULY 26-28

The 30th weekend of the year is looking like $174 million for the top 12 films, a bit lower than last weekend ($181 million) but much better than the average for this weekend the past few years ($137 million) when summer normal...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

THE SKED: Sun/Mon Cable Ratings Scorecard – 7/21-22

  SUNDAY HBO:  It’s still TRUE BLOOD season, and even though the show slipped 0.1 to 2.4 among 18-49s, holding more or less even in total viewers at 4.5M, that was by far the biggest cable rating of the night.  In ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED’S TUESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 7/23/13

  America’s Got Talent continued to dominate Tuesdays, doubling the next highest rating on the night. NBC:  AMERICA’S GOT TALENT climbed an impressive 0.3 from last week to 2.8, and in the 10PM hour it more th...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY’s State of the Indies

  Now that we’ve looked through all the major and mini-major Hollywood studios (Disney, Warner Bros, Paramount, Sony, 20th Century Fox, Universal and Lionsgate/Summit) and examined their summers, today we’ll wr...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED’S MONDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 7/22/13

  Despite a bit of last-minute disruption from the new Royal Baby, the night still belonged to Under the Dome. CBS:  UNDER THE DOME ticked up slightly.  Dome‘s adult 18-49 rating episode track so far: 3.3…2.9...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

Top Cable and Broadcast Programs of the Week

Updated cable and broadcast telecast chart for last two weeks:
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

THE SKED: The “Bunheads” Dance Is Done

  It took ABCFamily long enough to pull the trigger–BUNHEADS aired its last episode in February–but the bullet has finally been fired into its airy, repartee-fueled head, as the network officially announced tha...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY’s State of the Studio: Lionsgate/Summit

  Last week we ran through all the major Hollywood studios–Disney, Warner Bros, Paramount, Sony, 20th Century Fox and Universal–to see how their summers have been going.  Today we’ll take a look at Lions...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday July 20 and Sunday July 21, 2013. (The 56 markets out of 210 total cover about 70% of the US television population.) ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

Weekly Network Ratings & Summer to Date Rankings

Projected weekly network ratings in prime time (based on four days of official nationals and three days of fast nationals). FOX wins the week with the MLB All-Star Game, while ABC falls back to a weak fourth place, way off last...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

THE SKED’S SUNDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 7/21/19

Sadly, if not surprisingly, the most notable development on TV last night was the quick dissipation of any promise from last week’s premiere that The Newsroom had learned from its Season 1 mistakes, as its insufferable s...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED PREMIERE REVIEWS: “Axe Cop” & “High School USA!”

  Among the many, many places where cable has been eating the lunch of the broadcast networks is in the anarchic, shoestring-budgeted world of adult late-night comedy, much of it animated, where Adult Swim has been routine...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

POST #4000

  This here site started a little over 2 years ago, in March 2011, a time that already seems distantly back in the era before Netflix was being nominated for Emmys and studios weren’t yet dueling over the sheer numbe...
by Mitch Salem