Posts Tagged ‘The Sked’
 

 

THE SKED Season Finale Review: “Almost Human”

  The final scene of ALMOST HUMAN‘s season typified what a behind-the-scenes mess the entire run had been.  The occasion was a sequence where human police detective circa 2048 John Kennex (Karl Urban) and his cyborg...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY MONDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 8.28.2017

  It was a strong night for network TV, rebounding from last Monday (which was interrupted by a Presidential speech). DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “The Affair”

  THE AFFAIR:  Sunday 10PM on Showtime THE AFFAIR was one of last year’s most confounding shows.  It was at once carefully observed and gimmicky, precise and willfully vague, compulsively watchable and annoying. Th...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “Public Morals”

  PUBLIC MORALS:  Tuesday 10PM on TNT – Change the Channel Unless its pilot turns out to be misleading, PUBLIC MORALS looks to be fairly woeful stuff.  The show’s auteur–its star as well as the series c...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Tuesday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 3.23.2021

        NETWORK FINALS:  There were significant increases (to the next tenth) for THIS IS US, SUPERMAN & LOIS, SOUL OF A NATION and the reruns of FBI and MIXED-ISH.          Broadcast O...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

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
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY WEDNESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 12.17.2014

  It was SURVIVOR’s turn for a cycle finale win. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary key advertiser demographics (adult 18-34, 18-49 and 25-54 ratin...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Monday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 8.12.2019

        NETWORK FINALS:  BACHELOR IN PARADISE gained 0.1 in final numbers, while GRAND HOTEL and the reruns of BULLETPROOF and the 9:30PM WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY lost the same.         &nbs...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Saturday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 12.2.2017

        NETWORK FINALS:  ABC’s COLLEGE FOOTBALL game stayed at 1.6, and FOX’s adjusted up to 3.6.  Elsewhere, the rerun of KEVIN CAN WAIT fell 0.2, and DATELINE as well as the reruns of WILL &a...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Monday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 11.6.2017

        NETWORK FINALS:  As expected, football adjustments pushed ABC’s line-up down, with both DANCING WITH THE STARS and LIVING EVERY DAY: LUKE BRYAN down 0.2 in finals.  In addition, THE GIFTED fe...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

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

  WAYWARD PINES:  Midseason TBD on FOX THE FACTS:  M. Night Shyamalan is the marquee producer of this neo-Twin Peaks-ian limited series.  (He also directed the pilot.)  It concerns Secret Service agent Ethan Burke, who...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “Togetherness”

  TOGETHERNESS:  Sunday 10:30PM on HBO HBO pairs Jay and Mark Duplass’s TOGETHERNESS with Girls on Sunday nights, and in a way they make sense as companion pieces, since Togetherness concerns a screwed-up foursome a...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED Season Finale Review: “Revenge”

  REVENGE made a concerted effort this season to earn back its… well, let’s call it “credibility,” although that word doesn’t have much to do with this series.  Creator and original showrunne...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY’S Top 25 Monday Cable Originals – 8/18/14

NETWORK UPDATE:  AMERICA’S NEXT TOP MODEL’s season premiere lost an additional 0.1 in adjusted ratings that it couldn’t afford to shed, ending up at an anemic 0.4.  RUNNING WILD and AMERICAN NINJA WARRIOR al...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “Vice Principals”

  VICE PRINCIPALS:  Sunday 10:30PM on HBO – In the Queue Your feelings about HBO’s new VICE PRINCIPALS are likely to be determined by your instinctive reaction to the name Danny McBride.  For a decade now, si...
by Mitch Salem