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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 8/23/15

  OPENINGS:  With a $10M production budget (and tens of millions in marketing on top), the $10.6M weekend for SINISTER 2 (Blumhouse/Gramercy/Focus/Universal) will test Blumhouse’s ability to make money out of just a...
by Mitch Salem
 
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WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Not So Fast, “Catching Fire”

  Yesterday’s studio estimate for THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE (Lionsgate) seemed high, with a Sunday drop predicted to be by far the lowest in the Top 10, so it’s not much of a surprise to see the weekend n...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Pilot Reports

SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “Grown-ish”

  GROWN-ISH:  Wednesday 8PM on Freeform – In Progress ABC’s Black-ish has been a bright spot on the broadcast landscape, the rare network family sitcom to earn both wide audiences and critical praise for its c...
by Mitch Salem
 
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OSCARLAND: Award Season Begins

  The last two days have launched what will be a nearly non-stop parade of movie (and some television) accolades that won’t end until early March, when the final “and the Oscar goes to” is announced at LA...
by Mitch Salem
 
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US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office Report – 10.25.2020

  OPENINGS:  The only wide launch this week (2027 theatres) was the horror movie THE EMPTY MAN (20th/Disney), which despite its big-studio credentials had a nearly invisible level of marketing behind it, and started with ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY THURSDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 9.17.2015

  THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL owned the night. 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), audienc...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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UPDATED: THE SKED NETWORK/CABLE SCORECARD – 12/10/13

  AFTERNOON UPDATE:  AGENTS OF SHIELD salvaged a shred of is dignity by rising 0.1 in final Tuesday numbers, although the resulting 2.1 is still a new low for the show.  SHIELD ran until 9:01PM, and after that THE GOLDBERGS ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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ShowbuzzDaily’s Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “Ophelia” & “Burden”

  OPHELIA (no distrib):  Claire McCarthy’s film, written by Semi Chellas from Lisa Klein’s novel, dampens the fun of its own concept.  The idea is to re-tell Hamlet through the eyes of Shakespeare’s ill...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED NETWORK SCORECARD – 12/15/13

  On a night dotted with football (adjusted up below to anticipated final numbers), it didn’t pay to be the odd network out. ABC:  The fall finale of ONCE UPON A TIME didn’t go the way ABC had hoped, dropping 0.2 ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Daily Ratings Reports

THE SKED NETWORK SCORECARD – 12/23/13

  “Silent Night” arrived early this week.  (And that’s before local NFL coverage has been adjusted from the network totals.) NBC:  The finale of THE SING-OFF, at 1.3, was down 0.3 from last year’s...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY Pilot + 1 Review: “Code Black”

  CODE BLACK:  Wednesday 10PM on CBS Previously… on CODE BLACK:  At a famously busy Los Angeles hospital, the emergency room reaches the level of Code Black–where there are more patients needing treatment tha...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED Series Premiere Review: “The Assets”

  THE ASSETS:  Thursday 10PM on ABC – Change the Channel It’s easy enough to see why ABC would like to be in the spy-TV business.  Homeland, whatever its flaws, is a major hit, and The Americans, while not as...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings 2.24-25.2018

Here are the weekend sports ratings for Saturday and Sunday February 24-25, 2018.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 300K P2+).  Programs are grouped by sport a...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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UPDATED: THE SKED CABLE/NETWORK SCORECARD – 1/9/14

  AFTERNOON UPDATE:  PARKS & RECREATION has been badly in need of a boost, and airing behind COMMUNITY may have supplied it, as an extra 0.1 in final numbers gave it a 1.5, which may not look like much but is up 50% from ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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UPDATED: THE SKED CABLE/NETWORK SCORECARD – 1/14/14

  AFTERNOON UPDATE:  The news only got worse for FOX, as THE MINDY PROJECT slipped another 0.1 to reach a new low 1.1. TUESDAY CABLE:  In its 2d outing, BEING MARY JANE (BET) fell 0.3 to 1.2, still enough to top last night&#...
by Mitch Salem
 
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