Posts Tagged ‘spotlight’
 

 

THE SKED’S WEDNESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 12/19/12

  Chicago Fire, not for the first time, responds well when it doesn’t face off directly with CSI. NBC:  After the MISS UNIVERSE PAGEANT‘s 1.8 (up slightly from last year), CHICAGO FIRE hit a 1.9, up half a ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Jack Reacher”

  JACK REACHER:  Watch It At Home – Next on TNT:  Tom Cruise If Tom Cruise’s career ever takes him to do a TV pilot, it would be a lot like JACK REACHER.  And not a classy, sophisticated pilot for AMC or H...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

Early Holiday Boxoffice: Wednesday Debuts – 12/19/12

  Kathryn Bigelow’s acclaimed ZERO DARK THIRTY (Sony) is off to a tremendous start in limited release, according to THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER.  The real-life drama about the CIA hunt for Osama bin-Laden, despite (or ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE PREDICTIONS December 21-23

The weekend before Christmas offers four wide releases and another fairly-wide release.  What a collection of underperformers.  The weekend should total a very uninspired $112 million for the top 12 films.  The 51st weekend ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

THE SKED’S TUESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 12/18/12

The Voice hasn’t run out of steam just yet. NBC:  The cycle finale of THE VOICE hit a 4.9, way up from last week and even more impressively, up half a point from last spring’s finale.  Even a rerun of the previous...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED’S MONDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 12/17/12

Viewers bid a fond XOXO to Gossip Girl. CW:  The final episode of GOSSIP GIRL earned the show its best rating of the season by a considerable margin, with a 0.8 (although it’s a sign of where the series ended up that thi...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED SERIES FINALE REVIEW: “Gossip Girl”

  After 6 years and a 55-minute clip show retrospective, and bearing enough promos for The Carrie Diaries for that show to establish a network of its own, GOSSIP GIRL came to a breezy, mostly satisfying end by concentratin...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

WEEKLY BOX OFFICE ACTUALS & YEAR TO DATE December 10-16

The Past Week: Total Box Office Volume All films in wide release playing between December 10 and December 16 grossed a solid $153 million, up 6% from the four-year average for the week and up 12% from the same week last year. ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

THE SKED’S SUNDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 12/16/12

  With live coverage of football and President Obama’s address to the families of Newtown, last night’s ratings won’t really be clear until final numbers are released tomorrow.  What follows is a very pr...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports Ratings Bowl

CBS’s second half of the Sunday NFL doubleheader did a terrific 17.0 HH rating in the metered markets (mostly Pittsburgh at Dallas between 4:30 and almost 8:00 pm). NBC’s Sunday Night Football at 8:30 pm averaged a ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

Broadcast Network Rankings through December 16

SEASON TO DATE through 12 weeks (through Sunday, December 16, 2012, including adjusted fast national ratings for the last three nights): NBC is averaging a 2.76 adult 18-49 rating in prime time (up 20% from the same period las...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

INTERNATIONAL BOX OFFICE through December 16

Latest International Box Office overview.
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Homeland”

  What kind of show, in the end, is HOMELAND?  Focus groups are often asked simply to describe whatever it is they’ve just seen, and Homeland has tried to be a romance, a thriller, an action adventure, a story about...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Dexter”

  Although there was plenty more going on–too much, in fact–it was fitting that Season 7 of DEXTER came down, in the end, to the women in Dexter Morgan’s life.  One could even say that this season might ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

BEHIND THE WEEKEND BOXOFFICE – 12/16/12

  OPENINGS:  THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY (Warners/MGM), with its currently estimated $84.8M opening, has broken the previous December record (2007’s I Am Legend) by about 10%.  However, it’s also on tra...
by Mitch Salem