Posts Tagged ‘spotlight’
 

 

SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings 12.3-4.2016

Here are the weekend sports ratings for Saturday and Sunday December 3-4, 2016.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 150K P2+).  Programs are grouped by sport and...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “Battle Creek”

  BATTLE CREEK:  Sunday 10PM on CBS – Change the Channel While not the worst show of the season, BATTLE CREEK may well be the most disappointing.  The light procedural combines the talents of two of TV’s prem...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

The Sked: Broadcast Season Averages

A quick update. SEASON TO DATE through five full weeks (32 nights of official ratings and 3 nights of adjusted fast nationals), NBC is averaging a 2.73 rating in prime time (up 19% from the same period last year). FOX is now s...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY THURSDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 11.6.2014

  The good news for ABC is that in the absence of football, it’s clear leader on Thursday; the bad is that its serialized shows are just a few weeks away from taking months-long breaks. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Pilot + 1 Review: “Better Call Saul”

  BETTER CALL SAUL:  Monday 10PM on AMC Previously… on BETTER CALL SAUL:  In 2002, the man who will become Saul Goodman (Bob Odenkirk) is still Jimmy McGill, a struggling New Mexico criminal attorney struggling to ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

Weekend Box Office Predictions NOVEMBER 22-24

The 47th weekend of the year is looking like $238 million for the top 12 films, just about where the weekend before Thanksgiving should be. Opening at over 4,100 theaters Friday (well above the 2,886 average theater count for o...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 25 Saturday Cable Originals: 4.18.2015

Ratings in key demos for the Top 25 original cable telecasts (plus a few other lower-rated but noteworthy programs): It didn’t hit the preliminary list, but ORPHAN BLACK premiered on Saturday everywhere AMC Networks has a...
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
 

 

 

THE SKED: “Sean” Leaves the World Unsaved

  NBC has pulled the plug on SEAN SAVES THE WORLD, its misbegotten Sean Hayes vehicle.  The series has aired 12 of its 14 completed episodes (a total of 18 had been ordered), and it’s not yet clear what will be repl...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED Midseason Premiere Review: “The Walking Dead”

  THE WALKING DEAD:  Sunday 9PM on AMC The back half of THE WALKING DEAD‘s fourth season began by bringing the series back to square one:  isolated figures wandering without a clear goal through an anonymous landsc...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Sunday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 2.28.2021

        NETWORK FINALS:  THE GOLDEN GLOBES adjusted to 1.52, down a calamitous 68% from 2020.  Elsewhere, NCIS:  NEW ORLEANS and BOB’S BURGERS adjusted up to the next tenth, while presumably as a result...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

Year to Date Box Office & Worldwide Studio Scorecard 1.28.2018

WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD.  Here is an updated look at the 2017 film slates by studio, including early 2018 dollars for films released later in 2017. We will start tracking the 2018 studio slates in a few weeks. YEAR TO DATE...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY SUNDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 12.23.2018

  A few stray originals among the reruns. 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 rati...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Friday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 4.14.2017

        NETWORK FINALS:  SHARK TANK gained 0.1 in final numbers, while THE ORIGINALS lost the same.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  W...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

OSCARLAND: The Battle Between Good and Evil Begins

  Over the weekend, this year’s Oscarland acquired its first helping of Conventional Wisdom, thanks to the initial release of 12 YEARS A SLAVE (Fox Searchlight) in theatres and the unveiling of SAVING MR. BANKS (Disn...
by Mitch Salem