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Holiday Box Office Volume: through December 22

For the 7 days December 16-22, the top 10 films each day in North America have totaled $336 million, -19% below last year’s record pace, but still +68% above the average since 2002. The arrival of Star Wars into the hol...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Chicago Fire”

  NBC is all-in on CHICAGO FIRE.  Not only has it given the show a plum spot for the fall on Tuesdays with The Voice as its lead-in, it’s ordered a police-oriented spin-off for midseason.  All this enthusiasm is a ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Tuesday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 3.1.2016

      NETWORK FINALS:  ABC’s SUPER TUESDAY coverage gained 0.1 in final numbers, a bump the network probably would have preferred to receive on THE MUPPETS or AGENT CARTER (neither of which  budged from m...
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SHOWBUZZDAILY THURSDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 9.10.2020

  The NFL brought ratings to a dimension they haven’t seen in a while, but not quite where they’ve been. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary l...
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FRIDAY JANUARY 11 BOX OFFICE REPORT

Based on Friday’s grosses, Weekend #2 of 2013 is on pace for $124 million, identical to last weekend and up slightly from the same weekend the last few years.  The three wide-release films this weekend performed pretty m...
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UPDATED: THE SKED CABLE/NETWORK SUNDAY SCORECARD – 7/27/14

  NETWORK UPDATE:  BIG BROTHER gained 0.1 in final numbers. SUNDAY CA BLE:  Historical dramas usually skew old, and that was certainly the case with WGN America’s new MANHATTAN, which debuted with a mere 0.18 in 1...
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SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Finale Review: “Homeland”

  No season of Showtime’s HOMELAND ever came close to touching the wild highs of its first, an amazing concoction that managed to combine the tension of a great thriller with constant twists, impossible romance and p...
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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Billions”

  The lesson of the 2d season of Showtime’s BILLIONS is that a show doesn’t have to dramatically reboot itself in order to improve.  Billions Season 2 had the same premise and core characters as Season 1:  he...
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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “Agents of SHIELD”

  AGENTS OF SHIELD – Friday 9PM on ABC It’s hard to believe that only 5 seasons ago, when ABC’s AGENTS OF SHIELD arrived on the air, the idea of a superhero TV series still seemed somewhat new and cool. ...
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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Looper”

  LOOPER:  Worth A Ticket – Maybe Too Enthralling For Its Own Good   Rian Johnson’s most salient trait as a filmmaker may be a tendency to get carried away.  His first film, Brick, was a high school film...
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UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Sunday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 12.3.2017

        NETWORK FINALS:  SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL adjusted to 6.4, up 0.4 from last week’s game.  Elsewhere, the AMERICA’S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS rerun and the NCIS: LA rerun lost 0.1 in final numbe...
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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 1.20.2019

  OPENINGS:  Despite a holiday opening and a much higher (and more costly) level of hype, GLASS (Blinding Edge/Blumhouse/Buena Vista Intl/Universal) barely squeezed past Split over the 3-day weekend, $40.6M vs. $40M.  Ev...
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EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “Gone Girl” Isn’t Going Anywhere

  GONE GIRL (20th) should easily retain its title in its 2d weekend of release, based on preliminary numbers at Deadline.  Although the Friday race is tight between Gone Girl at $7.1M and the new DRACULA UNTOLD (Legendary...
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HOLIDAY WEDNESDAY BOX OFFICE: “Transformers” Overwhelms “Tammy” & the Rest

  The long holiday movie weekend began without much interest from audiences. OPENINGS:  TAMMY (Warners) got underway with a so-so $6.2M, which includes $1.3M from Tuesday night shows.  That suggests $32-35M for the 5-day...
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SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday November 9 and Sunday November 10, 2013. (The 56 markets out of 210 total cover about 70% of the US television popula...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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