Posts Tagged ‘spotlight’
 

 

This Year’s Box Office Softness — Not At All Unprecedented

Nine weeks into 2013, the North American box office is down significantly from last year (-19%).  But it’s more interesting when we look back at the a longer period — in this case, the last six years.  Half of tho...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

THE SKED’S MONDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 3/11/13

The Bachelor dominates the night.  (Also, a housekeeping note:  as you’ll see below, we’ve now including not just nightly and year-ago charts in these daily reports, but also the 6-week track of all the night̵...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED @ PALEYFEST2013: “New Girl”

The PaleyFest panel for FOX’s NEW GIRL was as goofy and likable as the show itself, as Jake Johnson (Nick) was talked into not just performing the show’s theme song–after Zoey Deschanel (Jess) demurred–b...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports Ratings

The PGA and the weekend’s broadcaster (in this case NBC) usually have reason to be overjoyed when Tiger Woods is in contention at a tournament.  This weekend at Doral, Florida (the WGC Cadillac event), Woods won the even...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

THE SKED: CBS Season Finales

  CBS is the latest network to announce its schedule of season finales, joining CW and FOX.  Here’s the line-up: SUNDAY APRIL 26 9PM:  THE GOOD WIFE SUNDAY MAY 5 8PM:  THE AMAZING RACE 10PM:  THE MENTALIST THURSD...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED’S SUNDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 3/10/13

Daylight Savings Time arrives. ABC:  The 8PM shows on CBS and FOX were both down with the arrival of Daylight Savings Time, so viewed in that light, ONCE UPON A TIME‘s 2.2, although matching a low and down a heavy 0.7 fr...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

Weekly Network Ratings: NBC Hits a Weekly Low and FOX Pulls Into a Virtual Tie for Second Place

For the second week in a row, FOX is the only network above a 2.0 rating in the prime time weekly average.  NBC is headed for a record low week: the estimated 1.13 falls comfortably below the previous low (week 19 of the seaso...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE NON-REVIEW: “Army Wives”

  ARMY WIVES:  Sunday 9PM on Lifetime Lifetime’s venerable ARMY WIVES returned for its seventh season tonight, but really this will be the 2.0 version of the show.  Most of the original cast is gone this season or ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “The Client List”

  THE CLIENT LIST:  Sunday 10PM on Lifetime No one would include Lifetime’s THE CLIENT LIST on a short (or for that matter, lengthy) list of the highlights of our current remarkable era of cable television drama.  ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED: Justin Timberlake is King of SNL Ratings, Too

  In case Justin Timberlake’s qualifications for the 5-Timers Club were in any question, last night’s ratings for SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE confirm that he’s the show’s MVP of this era.  SNL had a 5.9 ra...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

BEHIND THE WEEKEND BOXOFFICE – 3/10/13

  OPENINGS:  OZ THE GREAT AND POWERFUL (Disney) is having an oddly topsy-turvy weekend.  On the one hand, in the US it got the Saturday bump it needed from family audiences, rising 37% (better than Alice in Wonderland, a...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

INTERNATIONAL BOX OFFICE through March 10

Oz the Great and Powerful joins the worldwide chart just outside the top 10.  With $70 million overseas to date, the foreign total should approach $300 million, making $500 million worldwide an achievable goal (behind Life o...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

WEEKEND STUDIO ESTIMATES March 8-10

Based on Saturday’s grosses, Weekend #10 of 2013 is looking even stronger than it did yesterday: now $129 million for the top 12 films Friday-Sunday, up from the $122 million estimate yesterday and now up 5% from last yea...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

THE SKED REVIEW: SNL with Justin Timberlake

  If The Avengers were an episode of SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, it might be something like the first hour of tonight’s show, a veritable all-star brigade of special guests and beloved characters presented for the celebrato...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED’S PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “Vikings”

  THE VIKINGS:  Sunday 10PM on History Channel Previously… on VIKINGS:  Back around the 8th Century AD, Ragnar Lothbrok (Travis Fimmel) is the one Viking visionary enough to believe that there are lands to the west...
by Mitch Salem