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THE SKED: “Justified” Finale Runs Low On Ratings Bullets

The critical consensus on this season of JUSTIFIED–including here–was that it was excellent, perhaps the best of the series so far. Viewers, though, seemed less enthused, as last night’s season finale...

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THE SKED: Fri-Mon Cable Ratings Scorecard – 7/26-7/29

FRIDAY STARZ: The pay-TV network had plenty of announcements at its TCA press tour session, including a renewal for its pirate series Black Sails before the show has even aired, but there wasn’t a word of comfort...

by Mitch Salem

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THE SKED Sunday Cable Ratings Scorecard

HBO: 18-49 numbers for Sunday’s debuts were in line with the preliminary ratings yesterday, as TRUE DETECTIVE launched with 1.0, and the two episodes of GIRLS were at 0.6/0.5. SHOWTIME: The Season 3 premiere of...

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THE SKED: A Good Night For Showtime as “Dexter” & “Ray Donovan” Rise

It’s encouraging when the ratings for a new series rise off a much-hyped premiere, and RAY DONOVAN managed that last night (in total viewers, at least–we don’t yet have any demo information), up from 1....

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THE SKED CABLE RATINGS SCORECARD: 8/24-27

SATURDAY AMC: HELL ON WHEELS held well in total viewers at 2M, but they got a lot older, as the show’s 18-49 rating fell from 0.5 to 0.3. That makes almost 80% of its viewers over 50, not exactly the most adver...

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THE SKED: “Perception” Perceived Mostly By Older Viewers

TNT’s much-ballyhooed launch of PERCEPTION scored very well in total audience, with a viewership of 5.6M people, holding on to 90% of its lead-in, the final season premiere of THE CLOSER. But like The Closer, Pe...

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EARLY SUNDAY CABLE RATINGS: Strong Start For “Last Week Tonight”

You know all those people who were so angry about That Thing That Happened on last week’s GAME OF THRONES that they swore up and down the internet they were done with the show forever? Apparently they didn’...

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THE SKED’S MONDAY SCRIPTED CABLE SCORECARD – 7/23/12

Monday cable was dominated, as usual, by the unscripted (well, let’s pretend they’re unscripted) WWE WRESTLING on USA and LOVE & HIP-HOP ATLANTA on VH1. (With VH1 back on DirecTV, Love & Hip-Hop had...

by Mitch Salem

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THE SKED’S THURSDAY SCRIPTED CABLE SCORECARD – 6/19/12

A new entry in the summer scripted brigade. TBS: SULLIVAN & SON had a mediocre debut. The first of its back-to-back episodes kicked off fairly well, just about even with the BIG BANG THEORY rerun that preceded it...

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THE SKED: “Breaking Bad” Breaks Big

AMC executives may have felt like they’d been doing some meth themselves this morning–in a good way. Five and a half seasons into its run, BREAKING BAD returned for its final 8 episodes with a vengeance, ex...

by Mitch Salem

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THE SKED MONDAY CABLE RATINGS SCORECARD – 4/15/13

SYFY: The multiplatform DEFIANCE is the biggest project Syfy has tried to launch in quite a while, and its debut was fair if not overwhelming with a 1.0 in the 18-49 demo (only about 45% of the 2.7M total viewers were ...

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THE SKED: Mild Finales for “Girls” and “Banshee”

HBO reports that the initial airing of last night’s GIRLS Season 2 finale was watched by 632,000 total viewers. That’s down about 37% from the Season 1 finale last year, and down about 27% from the Season 2...

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INTRODUCING: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 25 Sunday Cable Originals Report – 8/10/14

As we’ve been teasing for the past week, today we’re adding something new and exciting to SHOWBUZZDAILY’s cable ratings coverage. The chart below includes Sunday night’s top 25 originals, and itR...

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THE SKED: “Walking Dead” Keeps Chomping

Last night’s midseason premiere of THE WALKING DEAD was disappointingly sluggish, uncompelling, and in its ending, downright silly. None of that mattered at all to its hordes of fans, though. The show returned ...

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THE SKED’S SUNDAY/MONDAY CABLE RATINGS SCORECARD – 4/7-8/13

SUNDAY HBO: Westeros ruled the night, as GAME OF THRONES took the Sunday lead now that The Walking Dead and The Bible are done, down just a tick from last week’s premiere to 2.3, plus another 0.6 for the 10PM re-...

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THE SKED: “Justified” Finale Runs Low On Ratings Bullets

THE SKED: Fri-Mon Cable Ratings Scorecard – 7/26-7/29

THE SKED Sunday Cable Ratings Scorecard

THE SKED: A Good Night For Showtime as “Dexter” & “Ray Donovan” Rise

THE SKED CABLE RATINGS SCORECARD: 8/24-27

THE SKED: “Perception” Perceived Mostly By Older Viewers

EARLY SUNDAY CABLE RATINGS: Strong Start For “Last Week Tonight”

THE SKED’S MONDAY SCRIPTED CABLE SCORECARD – 7/23/12

THE SKED’S THURSDAY SCRIPTED CABLE SCORECARD – 6/19/12

THE SKED: “Breaking Bad” Breaks Big

THE SKED MONDAY CABLE RATINGS SCORECARD – 4/15/13

THE SKED: Mild Finales for “Girls” and “Banshee”

INTRODUCING: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 25 Sunday Cable Originals Report – 8/10/14

THE SKED: “Walking Dead” Keeps Chomping

THE SKED’S SUNDAY/MONDAY CABLE RATINGS SCORECARD – 4/7-8/13

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