>With four days of mid-season promo monitoring under our belts (Monday-Thursday), the top five (or so) priorities for each broadcast network are listed in the table below. ABC spent the bulk of its promotional time suppor...
> Both The Hollywood Reporter and Deadline have preliminary (and somewhat divergent) estimates for Friday and the weekend boxoffice, and it looks like this will be the second consecutive weekend with a down-to-the-wire finish.&...
SAFE HOUSE: Watch It At Home – You’ve Seen It SAFE HOUSE feels like a remake, even though technically it’s not. It’s a little bit Training Day, a little Bourne, a little Man On Fire (and ev...
> Unfortunately for NBC, there are other nights in the week besides Monday. NBC: The gradual season-long collapse of THE OFFICE continued last night, as the show’s 2.5 hit not just a season low, but its lowest ratin...
THE VOW: Not Even For Free – Forget About It This year has brought us a far-fetched, but ultimately moving and deeply romantic story about a couple who have finally gotten together and married after...
> This year’s Academy Awards have so far engendered the kind of enthusiasm and excitement usually associated with a suburban DMV office on a Tuesday afternoon. People seem to be sullenly resigned to the inevitabilit...
> Somewhere, Edward R. Murrow weeps. CBS: The attempt to resurrect Murrow’s 59-year old celebrity interview vehicle PERSON TO PERSON with Charlie Rose and Lara Logan flopped badly with a 1.1 (wait, people didn’...
>Courtesy of the London oddsmakers (averaging a variety of books at easyodds.com), there appears to be little suspense ahead for the Best Picture and Best Director races at this year’s Academy Awards and almost no races a...
> Today FOX and the producers of HOUSE jointly announced that this 8th season will be its last. There’s nothing particularly shocking about this–ratings were down significantly from last year, and the show is ...
> The homevideo divisions of movie studios are notoriously reticent about giving out specific sales information regarding their titles beyond Week 1 boasts, but today Universal made a point of disclosing to Deadline that BRIDES...
>The chart below displays the minute by minute Nielsen ratings for the series debut of Smash Monday at 10 pm on NBC. The news is awful for the first 20 minutes or so, but then the premiere episode stabilized in the rating...
> Not all shows premiere like Smash. ABC: In recent years, viewers have flocked to horror series from True Blood to The Walking Dead to The Vampire Diaries, and at the multiplex, “found footage” thrillers like...
> A lot can happen between the creation of a TV pilot in the spring and production of episodes for the regular season: a writing/producing team is hired, audience focus groups weigh in, networks and studios (which may hav...