The Sked: THURSDAY Ratings
Thursday preliminary broadcast ratings:
SHOWBUZZDAILY Film Review: “Need For Speed”
NEED FOR SPEED: Watch It At Home – Not Enough Fuel If there was ever a movie that didn’t need to be over 2 hours long, the relatively unpretentious NEED FOR SPEED was it. Action movies these days too ofte...
THE SKED: CBS Renews Most Of Its Schedule; “The Good Wife” Survives Again
CBS is the most stable of the major broadcast networks, and honcho Les Moonves had stated last week that he expected to launch only around 2 dramas and 2 comedies in the fall, so unsurprisingly, the network has followed ...
UPDATED: THE SKED CABLE/NETWORK SCORECARD – 3/12/14
AFTERNOON UPDATE: There was no comfort for FOX in the final numbers, which left AMERICAN IDOL at 2.4, and even worse, left SURVIVOR at 2.5, giving the 14-year old reality show veteran its first win over IDOL. SUBURGATORY...
SHOWBUZZDAILY Film Review: “The Grand Budapest Hotel”
THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL: Worth A Ticket – Wes Anderson’s Latest Fancy Box Has Something Inside Where has the “Academy” 1.37:1 screen aspect ratio been all of Wes Anderson’s life? One of...
Weekend Box Office Predictions MARCH 14-16
Weekend #11 of 2014 is looking like $115 million for the top 12 films, down from last weekend but actually 10% above the average for the comparable weekend the past several years. Opening at around 3,000 theaters Friday (slight...
UPDATED: THE SKED CABLE/NETWORK SCORECARD – 3/11/14
AFTERNOON UPDATE: There was a lot of activity on the adjustment front, but all of it of the 0.1 variety: THE VOICE and AGENTS OF SHIELD up, and ABOUT A BOY, GROWING UP FISHER, MIND GAMES, CHICAGO FIRE and THE ORIGINALS d...
THE SKED: “Big Bang Theory” Isn’t Going Anywhere
CBS has reportedly closed a deal with Warner Bros Television to renew THE BIG BANG THEORY for 3 more seasons, which (pending renegotiation of expiring cast deals) would bring the show through Season 10. This was a no-b...
UPDATED: THE SKED CABLE/NETWORK SCORECARD – 3/9/14
UPDATE: RESURRECTION only got bigger in final numbers, rising 0.2 to a huge 3.8 (crushed by THE WALKING DEAD, but still). That tied the debut of THE BLACKLIST last fall–and of course BLACKLIST had a giant lead-in f...
UPDATED: THE SKED CABLE/NETWORK SCORECARD – 3/10/14
AFTERNOON UPDATE: THE BACHELOR climbed an additional 0.1 to 3.3. MONDAY CABLE: Not a particularly good night. BATES MOTEL (A&E) dived a steep 0.4 from last week’s season premiere to 0.9, and that sent THOSE W...
THE SKED Pilot + 1 Review: “Those Who Kill”
THOSE WHO KILL: Monday 10PM on A&E Previously… on THOSE WHO KILL: Catherine Jensen (Chloe Sevigny) is a Pittsburgh homicide detective on the serial killer beat. She has demons in her past, and so does Tho...
NIELSENWAR: Meanwhile, on Cable…
ABC had a very good hour on Sunday with its successful launch of Resurrection, but that still couldn’t compare to an entire night of Oscar coverage the previous week, so the network was down by more than 50% this t...
THE SKED: Preliminary Sunday Ratings for True Detective, Lindsay & Cosmos
Sunday’s numbers won’t be fully in until tomorrow, but bits of information are starting to arrive about some of last night’s event telecasts: In its simulcast airing on 9 cable networks owned by FOX, CO...
THE SKED: Farewell, “Raising Hope”
FOX issued some glad tidings on Friday with the group renewals of Brooklyn Nine-Nine, The Mindy Project, New Girl and The Following, and today it was time for another shoe to fall. The network announced that the one-ho...
SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings
The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday March 8 and Sunday March 9, 2014. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. ...