WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD.  Here is an updated look at the 2018 film slates by studio. The studio totals also include 2018 dollars for films released in late 2017. YEAR TO DATE BOX OFFICE. Looking at North American box office, 2018 to date is now +10% above last year and still +11% above the average for this point […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  A run of the movie BRAVE at 0.33 was followed by a rerun of THE CHASE at 0.20. CBS:  Reruns at 0.38/0.29/0.25/0.23. NBC:  The season premiere of AMERICAN NINJA WARRIOR was at 0.47, up a tick from the 2021 premiere.  The season premiere of WEAKEST LINK was at 0.35. FOX:  DON’T […]

  Even though no one who isn’t in the awards game could name a member of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (or would care about their opinion if they did), that group has seen its Golden Globes become the 2d most prominent award for both movies and TV.  In the last few years, the Globes […]

  The hills were not alive last night. NBC:  The night before Thanksgiving is traditionally an extremely slow one for TV viewing, and networks don’t typically air hour-long infomercials for their own upcoming programming, so it’s certainly premature for NBC to panic about the 1.0 for last night’s THE MAKING OF “THE SOUND OF MUSIC […]

  A few notable items from today’s cable news: On the heels of a season-best rating last Sunday, HBO has renewed VEEP for a third season of 10 episodes.  Veep‘s been a very sturdy success for the network, considerably outrating its splashier sister show Girls this year (although, to be sure, Girls didn’t have a […]

  OPENINGS:  RIDE ALONG 2 (Universal) is projecting a $39.5M 4-day weekend, 19% below the $48.6M opening of the first Ride Along exactly 2 years ago.  That would put its US trajectory at $100-110M, enough to make it a fine piece of business for all concerned, but any growth would have to come from overseas, […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  There were 0.1 bumps for THE BRIEFCASE and the rerun of AMERICAN NINJA WARRIOR in final numbers. CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  HGTV’s BROTHER VS BROTHER rode a 0.15 increase into the top slot on Wednesday cable, with lead-out HOUSE HUNTERS up 0.06 to 0.47, and HOUSE HUNTERS INTERNATIONAL up 0.06 to 0.42.  THE GAME (BET) dropped 0.05 to 0.63, […]

  Broadcast TV’s biggest hits continued heading downward. 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 ratings), audience skews (women 18-49, men 18-49 and adults 50+ shares) and total viewership (thousands of people over the age of 2). Ratings analysis and comparisons […]