Posts Tagged ‘The Sked’
 

 

UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Saturday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 11.28.2020

        NETWORK FINALS:  ABC’s COLLEGE FOOTBALL game adjusted to 0.4, and FOX’s game to 0.3.  Elsewhere, THE STORY OF SANTA CLAUS and the primetime SNL rerun gained 0.1 in final numbers.   &nb...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

THE SKED Season Premiere Review: “Hannibal”

  HANNIBAL:  Friday 10PM on NBC With the exception of Twin Peaks, HANNIBAL may well be the strangest drama ever to air on a broadcast network.  Created for television by Bryan Fuller as a prequel in the Thomas Harris ca...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

UPDATED: THE SKED CABLE/NETWORK SCORECARD – 3/16/14

  UPDATE:  All the adjustments were upward, but they were also only by 0.1, giving a little extra to BELIEVE, RESURRECTION, COSMOS, ONCE UPON A TIME, AMERICAN DAD and AMERICA’S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS.  SUNDAY CABLE:�...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

The Sked: Saturday Network Scorecard 1.2.2021

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), audience skews (women 18-49, men 18-49 an...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “The Americans”

  Last year FX gave THE AMERICANS showrunners Joel Fields and Joe Weisberg a final 2-season order, and from the vantage point of Season 5’s finale, it seems clear that they’ve approached this stretch as a singl...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED Series Finale Review: “Raising Hope”

  Hail and farewell to RAISING HOPE, that gently surreal bundle of quirky comedy that may have been too downscale to ever quite hit the pop culture jackpot.  The writing was discernible on the wall when series creator Gre...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Saturday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 1.16.2021

        NETWORK FINALS:  NBC’s primetime NFL PLAYOFFS game adjusted to 7.32.  In addition, FOR LIFE adjusted to the next tenth.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Ch...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

THE SKED Season Premiere Review: “Devious Maids”

  DEVIOUS MAIDS:  Sunday 10PM on Lifetime The comic soap DEVIOUS MAIDS, based on a Mexican telenovela, overcame a slow start to become a solid performer for Lifetime last season, rising 50% in total viewers between its pr...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “Preacher”

  PREACHER:  Monday 9PM on AMC Think of PREACHER as American Gods without the aspirations to greatness.  Both shows detail the gory interactions between (more or less) ordinary humans and supernatural beings; both tackle...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

NIELSENWAR: Pre-Upfront – What Will the Networks Do?

  The network averages for last week are significant because they represent a full week of sweeps programming, which means reruns were at a minimum and some stunting (although not a tremendous amount of it: a Chicago Fire/...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Friday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 2.19.2021

        NETWORK FINALS:  There were significant adjustments (to the next tenth) for SHARK TANK, MACGYVER and WWE SMACKDOWN.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   &nbs...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

NIELSENWAR 2014-15 Trailer Review: FOX’s “Gracepoint”

  GRACEPOINT:  Thursday 9PM on FOX THE FACTS:  David Tennant repeats his role as the lead detective in a US adaptation of the hit British miniseries Broadchurch, about the murder of a child in a small seaside town and wh...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “Insecure”

  INSECURE:  Sunday 10:30PM on HBO Issa Rae’s INSECURE became progressively more assured during the course of its first season, and although it wasn’t more than a moderate success, its ratings trended upward t...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED Season Finale Review: “Arrow”

  Marvel may own the movie houses, but DC Comics has been demonstrating that it has the edge when it comes to the small screen.  ARROW has steadily improved since its debut, and in its second season it provided a model of...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED Pilot Review: “Halt and Catch Fire”

  HALT AND CATCH FIRE:  Sunday 10PM on AMC – Potential DVR Alert HALT AND CATCH FIRE won’t remind you much of The Social Network.  (Or for that matter of Silicon Valley.)  Set in 1983 Texas and written by fi...
by Mitch Salem