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SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Finale Review: “The Following”

  Hardly anyone who wasn’t earning a paycheck from Kevin Williamson’s THE FOLLOWING will miss it.  It was as close as any network series has ever come to torture porn, with at least one or two innocents being ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED Series Premiere Review: “Ground Floor”

  GROUND FLOOR:  Thursday 10PM on TBS – If Nothing Else Is On… As cable networks have stolen more and more of the glory from broadcasters, with TV movies, miniseries, and quality 1-hour dramas now largely in t...
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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 2.3.2019

  OPENINGS:  It’s possible to make money on Super Bowl weekend, as hits like Dear John ($30.5M), Taken ($24.7M) and Chronicle ($22M) have shown.  But MISS BALA (Columbia/Sony) didn’t have what it takes, with ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY FRIDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 2.5.2016

  SLEEPY HOLLOW was moderately awake for its move to Fridays. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary key advertiser demographics (adult 18-34, 18-49 and 25-5...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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THE SKED’S MONDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 9/3/12

No one watches TV on Labor Day. NBC:  The post-Olympics scheduling experiment reached its nadir, as STARS EARN STRIPES hit a new low 0.9 in its finale, and GRIMM‘s 1.4 was down 0.2 from last week and just even with its n...
by Mitch Salem
 
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EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “Spy” Infiltrates Multiplexes; “Entourage” Slumps

  With Melissa McCarthy as solo lead, SPY (20th) isn’t opening at quite the level as The Heat, which featured a McCarthy/Sandra Bullock combo, as preliminary numbers at Deadline show a $10.6M opening day (including $...
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WEEKEND STUDIO ESTIMATES June 7-9

Based on Friday’s and Saturday’s grosses, Weekend #23 of 2013 looks like an okay $152 million for the top 12 films (very similar to yesterday’s estimate), down 13% from last year but 4% above the average for t...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY FRIDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 11.2.2018

  LAST MAN STANDING returned worse for wear from its World Series break. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary live+same day key advertiser demographics (ad...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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WEEKEND BOX OFFICE PREDICTIONS May 10-12

As Dark Shadows followed The Avengers last year in the second weekend of May, The Great Gatsby will try to follow Iron Man 3’s huge opening last weekend.  Let’s face it, the TV spots for Gatsby make the film look l...
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THE SKED: Ratings That Mean Something… and Ratings That Don’t

  Every Sunday now, the networks issue press releases to celebrate the giant gains made by shows during the full week following their initial airing, ratings known as “L7.”  Armed with numbers from a couple of...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED Season Finale Review: “Cougar Town”

  After five seasons, COUGAR TOWN has run through multiple networks (TBS, after ABC) and showrunners (Blake McCormick, following series creators Bill Lawrence and Kevin Biegel, and then Ric Swartzlander), and it’s ac...
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SHOWBUZZDAILY THURSDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 11.22.2018

  Mostly there was football. 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 ratings), audienc...
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THE SKED NETWORK RATINGS SCORECARD – 9/25/13

  After the excitement of the past two days, with the arrivals of The Blacklist and Agents of SHIELD, last night’s numbers were on the dull side. ABC:  Even though ABC won the night, there was no good news in the line-u...
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SKEDBALL: Weekly Sports TV Ratings 3.4-3.10.2019

Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday March 4 through Sunday March 10, 2019.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 300K P2+ live+same day).  Programs ar...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings 2.7-8.2015

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday February 7 and Sunday February 8, 2015. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television popula...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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