Posts Tagged ‘summer’
 

 

The Sked: TUESDAY RATINGS May 29

America’s Got Talent powered NBC to another nightly victory last night.  A repeat AGT scored a 2.0 preliminary rating with Adults 18-49 at 8 pm, and an original hour at 9 pm averaged a 3.7 rating (up from the showR...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Rock of Ages”

ROCK OF AGES:  Watch It At Home – Stop Believin’   No one expects finesse from a movie musical constructed out of songs by Journey, Twisted Sister and Def Leppard.  And, to be certain, the hair-band era of th...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

The Sked: Olympics Ratings — Averages through Eight Nights

And so it begins.  As the competition turns away from the pool and the gymnastics arena to the track & field stadium, the nightly ratings begin to drift down.  Last night looks like an 8.1 rating with Adults 18-49 in the ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

ShowBuzzDaily SUMMER MOVIE DRAFT July 15 Update

>Through Thursday (and including the midnight showings of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2), Team Metcalf is clinging to a $109 million lead over Team Salem.  Of course, that lead will turn into a tie sometime S...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

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
 

 
 

FAST FIVE: Boxoffice Express

> Worth a Ticket:  Diesel and The Rock keep their pedals to the metal. If you want to feel truly American, try reflecting on the new FAST FIVE while wall-to-wall coverage of the British royal wedding is airing on the telev...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED REVIEW: BBCA’s “The Hour”

> THE HOUR:  Wednesday 10PM on BBCAmerica:  Potential DVR Alert Here’s what’s wrong with BBCAmerica. Don’t get me wrong:  it’s marvelous that BBCA exists to bring us shows like Luther, the...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Men In Black 3”

MEN IN BLACK 3:  Watch It At Home – $250M Worth of “OK”   After years of development, a famously troubled production, untold rewrites and a budget that even Sony admits is around $250M (meaning $400M+ wi...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 
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The Sked: Olympic Ratings through Closing Ceremony

Even the Closing Ceremony did extraordinarily well this Olympics.  In the preliminary fast nationals, NBC averaged an 8.8 Adult 18-49 rating from 8-11 pm last night.  NBC usually runs the lower-rated 7 pm hour on the final ni...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

ShowBuzzDaily SUMMER MOVIE DRAFT Update

The second annual ShowBuzzDaily Summer Movie Draft still looks like a runaway for Team Metcalf ($518.9 million total through Sunday versus about $25 million each for Teams Salem and Weil), but the early lead is really a functio...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

THE SKED’S TUESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 7/24/12

Don’t trust ABC with your life. ABC:  The network’s semi-improvised comedy TRUST US WITH YOUR LIFE plummeted even from its awful premiere numbers, scoring 0.6 in both of its half-hours–that was below the sitc...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED: TNT Summer

> Although cable networks have become much more aggressive with their in-season scripted programming in recent years (Sunday nights this season are at least as much about cable shows as they are broadcast), summer is still when...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Falling Skies”

  FALLING SKIES – Sunday 9PM on TNT   WHERE WE WERE:  On our way into a spaceship.  The aliens have arrived, and contrary to what Executive Producer Steven Spielberg used to tell us, they’re not nice at ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

The Sked: MONDAY RATINGS May 28

NBC dominated the broadcast networks on the first Monday of the summer season with a 1.9 rating from 8-11 pm, although NBC will come in behind ESPN which aired Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Finals between the Boston Celtics ...
by Mitch Metcalf