Posts Tagged ‘spotlight’
 

 

THE SKED SERIES PREMIERE REVIEW: “Twisted”

  TWISTED:  Tuesday 9PM on ABCFamily – If Nothing Else Is On… ABCFamily’s TWISTED has an arresting premise.  11-year old Danny Desai was arrested and convicting for strangling his aunt to death while sh...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SKEDBALL: Weekly Sports TV Ratings 7.25-7.31.2022

Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday July 25 through Sunday July 31, 2022. Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 200K Persons 2+ live+same day). Programs ar...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Sunday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 3.25.2018

        NETWORK FINALS:  NCIS: LA and BOB’S BURGERS gained 0.1 in final numbers, while THE SIMPSONS, INSTINCT and DECEPTION each lost the same.           Broadcast Official Natio...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

THE SKED Fall Pilot Report: FOX’s “Sleepy Hollow”

  Read All Our Fall Pilot Reports here. SLEEPY HOLLOW:  Monday 9PM on FOX – If Nothing Else Is On… For what’s supposed to be an original series, SLEEPY HOLLOW feels awfully familiar.  Part of it, of cou...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Midseason Finale Review: “Outlander”

  For fans of his remarkable Battlestar Galactica reboot, it’s still strange to see series creator Ronald D. Moore switch to Starz’s much more old-fashioned OUTLANDER.  (Some of the abruptness of that switch w...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Game of Thrones”

  The seventh season of HBO’s blockbuster GAME OF THRONES, its most watched and in some ways most confounding, was shaped by two outside factors, and possibly a third.  Series creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY FRIDAY BOXOFFICE SCORECARD – 6/1/12

  Vulture picked the wrong weekend to predict Universal’s demise. OPENINGS:  SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN (Universal) had a very good $20.3M Friday, and will do better than $50M for the weekend, successfully selling (mal...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY TUESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 3.2.2021

  The returnees were somewhat soft. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary live+same day key advertiser demographics (adult 18-34, 18-49 and 25-54 ratings), ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Treme”

  TREME thrives on its idiosyncracies–if “thrive” is the word for a show that hardly anyone watches–and one of those is its limited interest in engaging in a “season finale.”  Thus, ton...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Saturday 7.16.2022 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED

  BROADCAST FINALS:  The season finale of NBC’s TRANSPLANT gained 0.02 to 0.13, followed by TRACK & FIELD at 0.23.  FOX’s MLB game was at 0.32.  CW’s MASTERS OF ILLUSION was at 0.05.  Univision...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY SUNDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 10.27.2019

  Sports on two networks. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary live+same day key advertiser demographics (adult 18-34, 18-49 and 25-54 ratings), audience s...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

THE SKED Season Finale Review: “Murder In the First”

  The season finale (if it’s lucky) of TNT’s mediocre MURDER IN THE FIRST was rather sad, pallid proof that the powerhouse writer/producer Steven Bochco has been outstripped by the genre he helped invent, the s...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

UPDATED: THE SKED CABLE/NETWORK TUESDAY SCORECARD – 7/29/14

  NETWORK UPDATE:  CELEBRITY WIFE SWAP gained 0.1 in final numbers. TUESDAY CABLE:  THE HAVES AND THE HAVE NOTS (OWN) and THE DEADLIEST CATCH (Discovery) were the highest-rated cable originals of the night at 1.0, steady...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Monday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 3.11.2019

        NETWORK FINALS:  THE BACHELOR gained 0.1 in final numbers, and THE GOOD DOCTOR lost the same.  Elsewhere, MAN WITH THE PLAN went up 0.1, and THE ENEMY WITHIN was down the same.       &n...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

The Sked: FALL RATINGS PREDICTIONS — SUNDAY Night

Thanks to football, Sunday nights in the fall can be very misleading.  NBC will walk away with the night between September and December with an astounding 6.5 rating each Sunday in prime time during the NFL season.  For 18 we...
by Mitch Metcalf