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SHOWBUZZDAILY FILM REVIEW: “The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones”

  THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS: CITY OF BONES –  Not Even For Free –  An Incoherent Compendium of YA Tropes THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS: CITY OF BONES isn’t so much a movie as it is a mash-up.  They’re all ...
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THE SKED Season Finale Review: “Faking It”

  MTV’s FAKING IT did a surprisingly deft job of sustaining its limited premise over 8 half-hour episodes–until, at least, the last 30 seconds of the season fell victim to a bad case of Season Finale-itis, reac...
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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Sunday 4.17.2022 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  AMERICA’S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS, aided by an NBA PLAYOFFS lead-in, jumped two-tenths to 0.72.  A 3-hour AMERICAN IDOL dipped 0.03 to 0.70. CBS:  60 MINUTES fell 0.36 from last week’s ...
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SHOWBUZZDAILY WEDNESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 10.31.2018

  A scary Halloween for quite a few shows. 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 rat...
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SHOWBUZZDAILY Film Review: “How To Train Your Dragon 2″”

  HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2:  Worth A Ticket – Bigger Isn’t Always Better, But Still Good Enough Like a lot of sequels animated and not, HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 has been conceived on a much more spectacula...
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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Wednesday 9.21.2022 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  The season premieres continued:  THE CONNORS down 0.12 from last season’s premiere to 0.53, THE GOLDBERGS down 0.26 to 0.44, ABBOTT ELEMENTARY down 0.07 to 0.57 from its January series prem...
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EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “A Quiet Place” Drowns Out “Rampage,” “True Or Dare” OK, “Beirut” Fizzles

  Even with a new horror movie in the market, A QUIET PLACE (Paramount) continued to over-perform, down just 46% from last Friday according to preliminary numbers at Deadline to $10.2M, putting it on track for a $35M 2nd w...
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UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Saturday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 6.9.2018

        NETWORK FINALS:  FOX’s MLB game lost 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  A&E’s LIVE PD ...
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THE SKED’S FRIDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 11/9/12

That didn’t take long. ABC:  At twin 1.6s, LAST MAN STANDING and MALIBU COUNTRY are still “hits” by Friday standards.  (Just ask NBC, which has been calling Grimm a hit for a year and a half with ratings at ...
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SHOWBUZZDAILY MONDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 10.26.2020

NOTE: ABC numbers below (especially EMERGENCY CALL) will decline somewhat in the official nationals because of local pre-emptions for NFL MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL in Chicago (WLS) and Los Angeles (KABC). DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For e...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Friday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 7.30.2021

        NOTE:  Over time, we’ll be publishing posts like this for the gap period in which ShowbuzzDaily wasn’t operational.  Those posts will not have analysis.         Broadcas...
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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Review: “Truth”

  The screenwriter James Vanderbilt has made his directing debut with TRUTH, which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival tonight, and at times it’s clear that this is a writer’s movie:  Vanderbilt gives no fe...
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UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Thursday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 8.24.2017

        NETWORK FINALS:  Because of the many sports preemptions on Thursday  night, our full broadcast network analysis is below. ABC:  The season finale of BOY BAND was up 0.1 to 0.6, but both BATTLE OF ...
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UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Tuesday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 2.21.2017

        NETWORK FINALS:  There were no changes from the preliminary Tuesday numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS: On USA, WWE SM...
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SKEDBALL: Weekly Sports TV Ratings 10.28-11.3.2019

Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday October 28 through Sunday November 3, 2019.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 300K P2+ live+same day).  Progra...
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