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UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Saturday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 7.1.2017

Posted July 5, 2017 by Mitch Metcalf

        NETWORK FINALS:  NBC’s NASCAR race gained 0.1 in final numbers, and 20/20: IN AN INSTANT lost the same.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Sports dominated Saturday cable, with ESPN’s TOP RANK BOXING at the top, scoring 1.14 for the main event hour […]

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THE SKED: TNT Summer

Posted March 15, 2012 by Mitch Salem

> 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 those networks really come out and play.  Today TNT announced the premiere dates for its very busy summer […]

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UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Thursday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 8.10.2017

Posted August 11, 2017 by Mitch Metcalf

    NETWORK FINALS:  As we noted this morning, the preliminary ratings were more or less useless because of NFL preemptions, so we’ll do a full network rundown here. NBC:  SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE’s summer Weekend Update series debuted at a solid 1.2, well above its 0.7 lead-in from THE WALL (down 0.3 from 2 weeks […]

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UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Thursday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 12.14.2017

Posted December 15, 2017 by Mitch Metcalf

        NETWORK FINALS:  THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL adjusted to 2.9, down 1.4 from last week’s game.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  The NBA beat the NFL on cable, as TNT’s basketball doubleheader was at 0.74/0.62, while NFL Network’s portion of THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL was […]

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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 100 Wednesday Cable Originals (& Network Update): 6.3.2015

Posted June 4, 2015 by Mitch Metcalf

NETWORK UPDATE:   The NHL FINALS rating adjusted up 0.1 to 1.9 in final numbers, tying last year’s Game 1.  In addition, MASTERCHEF rose 0.1, as did the rerun of SUPERNATURAL. CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  A busy but not particularly high-rated night was topped by BET’s season premiere of THE GAME at 0.67, with lead-out FRANKIE & NEFFE at […]

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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 25 Thursday Cable Originals (& Network Update): 1.1.2015

Posted January 7, 2015 by Mitch Metcalf

  NETWORK UPDATE:  There were no changes from the preliminary ratings for New Year’s night. Ratings in key demos for the Top 25 original cable telecasts (plus a few other lower-rated but noteworthy programs): ESPN got everything it could have wanted from the COLLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYOFFS, which were gigantic at 8.94/8.33, and had the highest […]

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UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Saturday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 4.23.2016

Posted April 26, 2016 by Mitch Metcalf

        NETWORK FINALS:  ABC’s run of MONSTERS UNIVERSITY and CBS’s rerun of NCIS: NEW ORLEANS each lost 0.1 in final numbers.       Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  It appears that HBO mistakenly listed the premiere of Beyonce’s LEMONADE as a rerun, which is why it […]

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UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Monday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 11.19.2018

Posted November 20, 2018 by Mitch Salem

        NETWORK FINALS:  After adjustment for football, DANCING WITH THE STARS dropped 0.2 to 1.1, and THE GOOD DOCTOR was down 0.1 to 1.1.           Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Prestige premieres continued to have a bad week, as AMC’s THE LITTLE DRUMMER GIRL […]

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