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Year to Date Box Office & Worldwide Studio Scorecard

WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD.  Despite having the only movie to cross the $300 million worldwide line (The Lego Movie), Warner Brothers lags behind Sony which has no mega-hit but three of its four films in 2014 are at $100 milli...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Episodes”

  EPISODES:  Sunday 10:30PM on Showtime   WHERE WE WERE:  Sean and Beverly Lincoln (Stephen Mangan and Tamsin Greig) are a married pair of British television writers who’ve had a modest success with a low-key ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED Series Premiere Review: “Those Who Kill”

  THOSE WHO KILL:  Monday 10PM on A&E – Worth A Look It has the accoutrements of a basic cable crime drama–the heroes are seriously screwed-up, and occasionally say “shit”–but THOSE WHO K...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Broadcast Weekly & Season Averages: 4th of July Blues

The broadcast networks combined for a lowly 4.53 combined 18-49 rating in prime time from July 2-8, 18% below the 42nd week last year (which also included the 4th of July holiday — on Monday).  This is a significantly bi...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “The Shannara Chronicles”

  THE SHANNARA CHRONICLES:  Tuesday 10PM on MTV – If Nothing Else Is On… MTV is late to the YA fantasy-adventure party with THE SHANNARA CHRONICLES, so it doesn’t have the element of surprise going for i...
by Mitch Salem
 
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BEHIND THE WEEKEND BOX OFFICE – 3/9/14

  OPENINGS:  Despite frontloading that led to an 8% Saturday drop, 300: RISE OF AN EMPIRE (Warners/Legendary) is claiming a very low 30% decline on Sunday in order to report a $45.1M weekend.  We’ll see if that num...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Pilot Reports

THE SKED PILOT REVIEW: “Political Animals”

  POLITICAL ANIMALS:  Sunday 10PM on USA – Potential DVR Alert   POLITICAL ANIMALS is a lot more Brothers & Sisters than it is The West Wing, which makes sense because it’s the work of Greg Berlanti, ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED Pilot + 1 Review: “Resurrection”

  RESURRECTION:  Sunday 9PM on ABC Previously… on RESURRECTION:  8-year old Jacob Langston (Landon Giminez) wakes up one morning in a Chinese rice paddy–32 years after he died in Arcadia, Missouri.  ThatR...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY FRIDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 4.23.2021

  Shows will be hoping for adjustments. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary live+same day key advertiser demographics (adult 18-34, 18-49 and 25-54 rating...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY WEEKEND BOXOFFICE SCORECARD – 7/22/12

  All boxoffice figures are unofficial until tomorrow, when the studios will once again admit that they’re in a business designed to make money.  However, numbers have made their way to the outside world, and it see...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings 1.23-24.2016

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday January 23 and Sunday January 24, 2016. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television popul...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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Weekend Box Office Predictions MARCH 28-30

Weekend #13 of 2014 is looking like $122 million for the top 12 films, 14% below the typical volume for this weekend the past few years. Opening at around 3,400 theaters Friday (well above the 2,886 average theater count for op...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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THE SKED: Thursday Scripted Cable Scorecard – 7/26/12

  USA:  Another strong night for the BURN NOTICE/SUITS duo.  Burn, which uncharacteristically featured the killing of a major recurring character, was the highest-rated show on cable with 1.4 in 18-49s (slightly up from ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Year to Date Box Office & Worldwide Studio Scorecard 7.1.2018

WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD.  Here is an updated look at the 2018 film slates by studio. The studio totals also include 2018 dollars for films released in late 2017. YEAR TO DATE BOX OFFICE. Looking at North American box offic...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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THE SKED Series Finale Review: “Once Upon A Time In Wonderland”

  Would ONCE UPON A TIME IN WONDERLAND have fared better if scheduled as originally planned, in the role of Sunday 8PM filler between the two half-seasons of its parent Once Upon A Time, instead of being sent to fend for i...
by Mitch Salem
 
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