Posts Tagged ‘spotlight’
 

 

THE SKED Season Finale Review: “Tyrant”

  TYRANT wasn’t the summer’s worst show, but it’s been the most piercing disappointment of the mini-season,  wasting a potentially thrilling premise–behind the scenes at a Middle Eastern military d...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Friday 8.19.2022 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  Reruns at 0.33/0.35. CBS:  SECRET CELEBRITY RENOVATION gained 0.06 to 0.24, followed by reruns at 0.18/0.21. NBC:  Reruns at 0.22/0.19. FOX:  WWE SMACKDOWN was up 0.03 to 0.47. CW:  KILLER CAM...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED NEW YEAR’S NETWORK SCORECARD – 1/1/13

The networks oh-so-slowly began to climb out of their holiday cave. NBC:  What did PARENTHOOD ever do to justify its treatment by NBC?  The show has been subject to every kind of indignity throughout its run, and last night t...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “A Million Little Things”

  This season, ABC’s A MILLION LITTLE THINGS provided proof that even as viewers accustom themselves to DVRs and video on demand, old-fashioned network scheduling can still be key.  A Million Little Things was langu...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 25 Wednesday Cable Originals: 9.3.2014

  Below are the ratings in key demos for Wednesday’s Top 25 original cable telecasts, along with a few lower-rated shows of interest.  If you’d like us to add any series to the latter list, please let us know.  S...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Sunday 9.11.2022 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  After a rerun AMERICA’S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS at 0.37, the line-up returned from an off-week with CELEBRITY FAMILY FEUD up 0.07 to 0.58, THE $100,000 PYRAMID up 0.02 to 0.44, and THE FINAL ST...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED: “Jimmy Kimmel Live” Moves to 11:35PM

  Jimmy Kimmel’s set got a bit of an upgrade, but other than that there was little visible evidence that the 11:35PM version of JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE will be very different from its midnight incarnation.  Kimmel has nev...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY WEDNESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 3.13.2019

  EMPIRE’s place in the public eye thanks to recent news didn’t help its ratings. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary live+same day key advert...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Sunday 9.25.2022 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  After a GLOBAL CITIZEN FESTIVAL special at 0.12, it was a night of premieres.  CELEBRITY JEOPARDY launched at 0.42.  The season premiere of CELEBRITY WHEEL OF FORTUNE was at 0.47, up 0.07 from t...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED’S MONDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 1/14/13

Not a good night for newcomers. NBC:  Even though THE BIGGEST LOSER was steady from last week at 2.4, DECEPTION fell a heavy 0.4 to a third-place 1.6 in its hour.  Worse yet, it slid during the course of the broadcast, with a...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

Behind the Friday Box Office – 9/19/14

  OPENINGS:  As YA franchises go, the $11.3M opening day for THE MAZE RUNNER (20th) was ahead of the $9.6M for the first Percy Jackson, which ended up with a $31.2M weekend.  Maze is being pitched more to teens than to f...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Wednesday 10.19.2022 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  THE CONNERS gained 0.03 to 0.51, THE GOLDBERGS rose 0.05 to 0.39, ABBOTT ELEMENTARY ticked down to 0.48, and HOME ECONOMICS was up 0.03 to 0.36.  BIG SKY slipped 0.02 to 0.23. CBS:  SURVIVOR dip...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

The Sked: Tuesday Ratings — A 2.2 Rating Is As Good As It Gets?

With CBS in re-reruns last night, it was one grim night on network TV Tuesday.  ABC won the night with a 2.0 adult 18-49 rating from 8-11 pm, slightly above the 1.7 season-to-date rating for ABC Tuesday.    The network premi...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Finale Review: “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend”

  This week marked the end of the road for two of TV’s most distinctive, original takes on the romantic-comedy genre.  FXX’s You’re the Worst and CW’s CRAZY EX-GIRLFRIEND were both “cult hits...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

The Sked: Saturday Ratings 10.1.2016

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+ s...
by Mitch Metcalf