The 10PM hour was taken up by news shows concerning some of the saddest of recent events. FOX: Lacking a news division of its own (let’s pretend its affiliated cable network doesn’t exist), FOX aired its regular line-up. FRINGE was up 0.2 at 1.1, tying the rerun KITCHEN NIGHTMARES at 8PM. ABC: The LAST MAN […]
Based on Friday’s grosses, Weekend #50 is on pace to exceed the multi-year average for this weekend by a very solid 27%, and the $142 million total for the top 12 films is the best since December 14-16, 2007 ($152 million). This weekend is all about Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit, which is on track to […]
It’s impossible to know at this point how the unspeakable events in Newtown on Friday will affect family behavior over the weekend, and even though this tragedy, unlike the Aurora massacre in July, has no direct connection to movies or theaters, the crowds that might have attended matinees of a four-quadrant event like THE […]
The cash has started pouring in for THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY (Warners/MGM). In 3100 theatres, the film earned $13M in midnight screenings last night. That was considerably higher than the $8M earned by the midnights for Return of the King, but King was in2003, before the phenomenon of midnight releases had really taken hold […]
Another Thursday where football simulcasts could affect ratings on 2 networks. For now, at least, Scandal is having a moment. ABC: The midseason finale of SCANDAL, pre-football adjustment in Philadelphia, is at what would be a new series high 2.7, its third high-scoring week in a row. (Even after any revision, the show will easily […]
Another day, another set of nominees. The Golden Globes, of course, whose nominees in full can be found here, have become their own thing, even though as an organization the Hollywood Foreign Press Association has no more credibility than the National Board of Review. That’s what a celebrity-packed, network-aired primetime telecast will get you. […]
…and this is why NBC won’t be running Revolution without a Voice lead-in anytime soon. NBC: TAKE IT ALL, airing for the first time without the comfort of that Voice audience, collapsed by more than a ratings point in a single night, down 50% to a terrible 1.1–just a tenth of a point above its […]
The busy Christmas film season gets going this weekend with the opening of The Hobbit. Not much else is happening at the box office as the movies from the last two weeks are pretty much dead and the Thanksgiving movies are getting a tad stale. But the prequel to the uber-nerd extravaganza that is J.R.R. […]