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ShowbuzzDaily’s Sundance 2022 Reviews: “Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul,” “Cha Cha Real Smooth” & “Alice”

  HONK FOR JESUS.  SAVE YOUR SOUL (no distrib):  Scandal-ridden mega-churches aren’t exactly fresh territory for screens big (The Tears of Tammy Faye) or small (The Righteous Gemstones), with tones that range from ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Thursday 2.16.2023 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  THE PARENT TEST was at 0.32/0.27 compared to last week’s 0.32/0.29.  THE CHASE gained 0.02 to 0.24. CBS:  YOUNG SHELDON dropped 0.07 to 0.61, and GHOSTS was down 0.05 to 0.58.  After a re...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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THE SKED Season Finale Review: “Elementary”

  Luckily for ELEMENTARY, appearances by the BBC’s celebrated Sherlock are so sporadic and brief (this season’s 3 episodes were the first in 2 years), that the two series only infrequently need to be judged aga...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SKEDBALL: World Series Ratings through Game 7 (Updated with Official Nationals)

Game 7 of the World Series Wednesday night averaged a 5.6 adult 18-49 fast national rating, which we are estimating will go up to around a 6.6 6.64 adult 18-49 rating in the official nationals (after time zone adjustment for t...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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FRIDAY NOVEMBER 16 BOX OFFICE RESULTS

Weekend #46 is on pace to exceed the multi-year average for this weekend by 17% — not as high as we forecast earlier this week but still very good.  The final Twilight film in the series is on pace to open with $135 mill...
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THE SKED: CBS Renewals

  There wasn’t much tumult expected in the CBS 2013-14 schedule, especially since The Eye will be this season’s #1 network, and today the most of its line-up was renewed (and a couple of others were omitted jus...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED Pilot + 1 Review: “Low Winter Sun”

  LOW WINTER SUN:  Sunday 10PM on AMC Previously… on LOW WINTER SUN:  Detroit Detective Frank Agnew (Mark Strong), along with fellow Detective Joe Geddes (Lennie James), have murdered Geddes’s partner, a thir...
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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...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Sundance 2023 Reviews: “Magazine Dreams,” “Polite Society” & “Drift”

  MAGAZINE DREAMS:  The hype was accurate:  Jonathan Majors gives a titanic performance in Elijah Bynum’s Magazine Dreams.  Playing Killian, a roided-up amateur bodybuilder obsessed with achieving glory in that pr...
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SHOWBUZZDAILY FRIDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 11.23.2018

  The turkey was barely cold before Christmas season arrived on the networks. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary live+same day key advertiser demographic...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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Pilot Reports

THE SKED Series Premiere Review: “Super Fun Night”

  SUPER FUN NIGHT:  Wednesday 9:30PM on ABC – Change the Channel ABC’s decision to bury the original pilot for its Rebel Wilson vehicle SUPER FUN NIGHT isn’t unheard-of, but it’s certainly no mark ...
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THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Treme”

  TREME:  Sunday 10PM on HBO   WHERE WE WERE:  New Orleans, of course, and hip-deep in the lives of a dozen struggling, striving, stubborn, idiosyncratic natives and recent arrivals.  These include the feckless tro...
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SHOWBUZZDAILY FRIDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 8.21.2015

  On another night riddled with football preemptions and likely to be adjusted by Monday numbers, there was little to say.  ABC’s WE DAY special went largely unseen at 0.4, and the night’s original 20/20, down...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Tuesday 2.7.2023 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED

  BROADCAST FINALS:  ABC earned bragging rights on the STATE OF THE UNION broadcast ratings with 0.61/4.4M. ABC:  Prior to the speech, the network aired a rerun at 0.26. CBS:  A rerun at 0.33 NBC:  NIGHT COURT was stea...
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WEEKEND STUDIO ESTIMATES April 5-7

Based on Friday’s grosses, Weekend #14 of 2013 is looking a little weaker than it appeared yesterday but still ahead of prior years.  The top 12 films are looking like $127 million this weekend, now 10% above the same we...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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