Posts Tagged ‘spotlight’
 

 

The Sked: SATURDAY Ratings 3.14.2015

DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary key advertiser demographics (adult 18-34, 18-49 and 25-54 ratings), audience skews (women 18-49, men 18-49 and adults 50+ s...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

BEHIND THE WEEKEND BOXOFFICE – 6/23/13

  OPENINGS:  Allowing for the usual studio practice of predicting lower-than-typical Sunday drops to boost the numbers a bit, MONSTERS UNIVERSITY (Disney/Pixar) opened in line with expectations at what may be slightly les...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Supergirl”

  SUPERGIRL undertook a journey this season more unusual than its own heroine’s passage from Krypton to Earth, transferring from CBS to CW.  It suffered little if any damage in the process–other than in the ra...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings 3.21-22.2015

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday March 21 and Sunday March 22, 2015. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

FRIDAY JUNE 28 Box Office Report

Based on Friday’s grosses, Weekend #26 of 2013 looks like an okay $181 million for the top 12 films, even with or slightly down from the same weekend in recent years.  Not a bad weekend at all, just not the blistering pa...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

The Sked: Saturday Network Scorecard 6.3.2017

DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary key advertiser demographics (adult 18-34, 18-49 and 25-54 ratings), audience skews (women 18-49, men 18-49 and adults 50+ s...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

FRIDAY JULY 5 Box Office Report

Based on Friday’s grosses, Weekend #27 of 2013 looks like a terrific $223 million for the top 12 films, up sharply from the comparable weekend in recent years. Not even The Lone Ranger could derail a hot summer box office...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

Behind the US/Worldwide Studio Scorecard – 6.11.2017

  OPENINGS:  In the US, the launch of THE MUMMY (Perfect World/Universal) could hardly have gone worse with a $32.2M weekend.  Although it’s higher than the openings for Tom Cruise’s recent Jack Reacher title...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Review: “Saturday Night Live” with Michael Keaton

  It wasn’t until the last few minutes of tonight’s SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE that the show seemed to figure out what to do with this week’s host–which was weird, because Michael Keaton, making his return...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

BEHIND THE FRIDAY BOX OFFICE – 7/12/13

  What kind of summer movie season has it been, really?  For the past several weeks, business has been consistently up, erasing the losses from a soft spring, and even with 3D, Imax and inflation taken into account, more ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED’S THURSDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 7/18/13

  Here’s something you don’t see every day:  the highest rated broadcast network among 18-49s last night was… Univision.  All the English-language networks (every one of which featured at least some ori...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 2.23.2020

  OPENINGS:  THE CALL OF THE WILD (20th/Disney) did a bit better than expected at $24.8M, but in the long run that’s not likely to make much difference.  Similarly to Dolittle (although much more quietly), Call of ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED’S THURSDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 7/25/13

  A very steady if unexciting night on the networks. FOX:  The closest thing to an event in primetime last night was the season finale of HELL’S KITCHEN, which was up a tick from last week to 2.2 (but off 0.2 from last ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 3.8.2020

  OPENINGS:  In the US, ONWARD (Pixar/Disney) was merely a disappointment by Pixar standards, with an OK 37% Saturday bump that allowed it to claim a $40M weekend, pending actuals on Monday.  That isn’t much better...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

OPENING NIGHT BOX OFFICE: The Age of Ultron Begins

  AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON (Marvel/Disney) blasted off with $27.6M from Thursday night screenings, handily beating the $18.7M for the first Avengers, although that blockbuster began its showings at midnight, while Ultron st...
by Mitch Salem