Posts Tagged ‘spotlight’
 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY FRIDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 11.27.2020

  A deluge of holiday specials. 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), audi...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Monday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 3.8.2021

        NETWORK FINALS:  There were significant adjustments (to the next tenth) for BOB HEARTS ABISHOLA and 9-1-1.  It’s also worth noting that DEBRIS is teetering on the edge of rounding down to 0.3 bef...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Necessary Roughness”

  NECESSARY ROUGHNESS:  Wednesday 10PM on USA Sometimes even a moderately successful sports team will decide to shake things up and change the line-up (just ask the Clippers, Nets and Grizzlies at the moment), and that ti...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

EARLY WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: “Transformers” and the $100M Weekend Question

  The odds are strong that on Sunday morning, TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION (Paramount) will claim a $100M weekend, the first of 2014–but we won’t really know until Monday whether the movie has hit that mark....
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Bros” & “Butcher’s Crossing”

  BROS (Universal – Sept. 30):  Notwithstanding its occasional meta self-deprecation, it’s clear that Nicholas Stoller and Billy Eichner (both writer/producers and respectively director and star) want Bros to ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 11/16/14

  OPENINGS:  The race between DUMB AND DUMBER TO (Red Granite/Universal) and Big Hero 6 may get a bit closer tomorrow, since Universal has aggressively estimated a 28% Sunday drop even though Dumb fell 2% on Saturday.  (...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Review: “Saturday Night Live” with Martin Freeman

  Martin Freeman, of The Hobbit franchise and the miniseries version of Fargo, brought a drier energy to tonight’s SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE than the typical host, and that paid off for the show in a few of the night’...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

The Sked: Saturday Network Scorecard 1.9.2021

Note: The NBC numbers below (NFL Wildcard Game coverage in the Eastern/Central time zones and mostly local programs in the primetime hours in the West) will go up around 15% to 20% in the official nationals on Tuesday morning. ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY MONDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 12.15.2014

  Afternoon adjustments will tell more of last night’s tale. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary key advertiser demographics (adult 18-34, 18-49 and ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

THE SKED: A Note About Cable Ratings

  There was some byplay on Twitter today about the way we and other TV ratings sites report cable ratings, and it seems worthwhile to share a few guidelines. Part of the confusion may have been caused by the way that the e...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

SKEDBALL: Winter Olympic Ratings Update

The wheels have pretty much come off the Olympic cart in Russia.  Saturday night was even worse than Friday’s disaster, a preliminary 4.3 adult 18-49 rating from 8:30-11:00 pm Saturday night (assuming the first half hour...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Tuesday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 1.10.2017

    NETWORK FINALS:  Adjustments pushed THIS IS US up 0.4 to a new series high 3.0, but that’s a bit misleading, because the episode aired twice on the West Coast, at 9PM and again at 10PM, and the final rating...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY FILM REVIEW: “Pacific Rim”

  PACIFIC RIM:  Watch It At Home – Even Michael Bay Might Say “Too Much” Why isn’t PACIFIC RIM a better movie?  It’s a passion project for the tremendously talented co-writer (with Travis Be...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Friday 12.10.2021 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  SHARK TANK aired a new episode for the first time since November 19, and fell 0.18 to 0.50, and 20/20 was down 0.02 from 2 weeks ago to 0.34. CBS:  SWAT was steady at 0.54, MAGNUM PI gained 0.07 ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY THURSDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 12.26.2019

  One new show. 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 skews (wome...
by Mitch Metcalf