Even if Die Hard takes the weekend, it’s running on fumes. OPENINGS: A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD (20th) cost at least triple the budget of SAFE HAVEN (Relativity), and had a more expensive marketing campaign as well. Yet on Friday, only $75K separated the two–and that was after Safe Haven won Valentine’s Day to […]
No one found a Week 2 bounce. FOX: The season’s second episode of TOUCH fared even worse than last week’s season premiere, dropping 0.2 to a 0.7 that makes Fringe seem high-rated in comparison. Touch couldn’t blame its lead-in, as KITCHEN NIGHTMARES edged up to 1.1 at 8PM. Viewers had better hope Kiefer Sutherland and […]
Based on Friday’s grosses, Weekend #7 of 2013 is not as bad as the last few weeks: $123 million for the top 12 films during the traditional Friday-Sunday period of this holiday weekend (only 4% behind the pace for the same weekend the last few years). Opening at 3,552 theaters Thursday […]
As expected, the end of Valentine’s Day meant some slippage for SAFE HAVEN (Relativity), and allowed A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD (20th) to take a narrow Friday lead, which it will probably hold for the rest of the holiday weekend. But according to preliminary numbers at Deadline, the race is surprisingly close. Die […]
Valentine’s Day didn’t heart network television, especially early in the evening. ABC: About the best that can be said about the 1.3 debut of ZERO HOUR is that it edged out NBC and CW for 3rd place in the hour. It’s a terrible start for a densely-plotted, serialized show that’s unlikely to lure many viewers […]
Preliminary numbers at Deadline give the Valentine’s Day boxoffice edge to, appropriately enough, the Nicholas Sparks sudsfest SAFE HAVEN (Relativity), probably at the expense of many unwilling spouses and significant others. The soap is reported to have taken in around $10M for the day. It will probably fall as the weekend shifts from Valentine’s […]
Through February 4 (20 weeks into this broadcast season), CBS leads with a 2.70 rating with adults 18-49, followed by NBC (2.40), FOX (2.19) and ABC (1.83). But very soon, FOX will move past NBC in the season averages and is not likely to let go of second place. Looking at the rest of the […]
A bad night for most. CBS: SURVIVOR returned from its hiatus with its lowest cycle premiere ever, a 2.4 that was down 0.7 from last Spring’s start. The show ran 90 minutes, and CBS filled in the gap with a 1.6 BIG BANG THEORY rerun before CSI had a 2.1, just barely ahead of the […]