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Weekend Box Office Predictions DECEMBER 13-15

The 50th weekend of the year is looking like $160 million for the top 12 films Friday-Sunday, a very good kick-off to the holiday movie season. Opening at around 3,900 theaters Friday (well above the 2,886 average theater coun...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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THE SKED: SAG Awards TV Nominations

  On the TV side of its fence, this morning’s Screen Actors Awards nominations (a complete list is here) were conservative to the point of being downright boring.  With the exception of House of Cards and the revive...
by Mitch Salem
 
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OSCARLAND: The SAG Nominations

  The Screen Actors Guild Awards are important, because the Actors branch is the largest single constituency of Oscar voters, but they’re also very different from the Oscars.  Their major award isn’t a “...
by Mitch Salem
 
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UPDATED: THE SKED NETWORK/CABLE SCORECARD – 12/10/13

  AFTERNOON UPDATE:  AGENTS OF SHIELD salvaged a shred of is dignity by rising 0.1 in final Tuesday numbers, although the resulting 2.1 is still a new low for the show.  SHIELD ran until 9:01PM, and after that THE GOLDBERGS ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED Fall Finale Review: “Agents of SHIELD”

  For its fall finale (the show is taking a relatively brief break, returning on January 7), AGENTS OF SHIELD turned to its continuing storylines, such as they are.  The script by Co-Producer Shalisha Francis, directed by...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY Film Review: “American Hustle”

  AMERICAN HUSTLE:  Buy A Ticket – David O. Russell’s Epic Romp Is a Party That Goes On Till Dawn Even though it’s concerned with con men, low-lifes and deluded losers, AMERICAN HUSTLE is the happiest mo...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED SUNDAY CABLE RATINGS SCORECARD – 12/8/13

  A&E/LIFETIME/HISTORY:  Part 1 of BONNIE & CLYDE performed moderately well, aggregating a 2.8 rating in 18-49s with 1.0 each on A&E and History and 0.8 on Lifetime.  It’s a fairly big number when you a...
by Mitch Salem
 
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UPDATED: THE SKED NETWORK/CABLE SCORECARD – 12/9/13

  AFTERNOON UPDATE:  As expected, THE GREAT CHRISTMAS LIGHT was hit hard after Chicago’s football coverage was removed, falling 0.4 to 1.4 in final numbers.  (The CASTLE rerun at 10PM fell too, to 1.0.)  SLEEPY HOLLOW...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED FINALE REVIEW: “Bonnie & Clyde” – Part 2

  BONNIE & CLYDE saved its most idiotic inspiration for the end.  Up until its last few minutes, the second half of the Lifetime/A&E/History miniseries was perhaps marginally better than its first (which we dealt ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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NIELSENWAR: “The Good Wife” and the Best Showrunner Emmy That Doesn’t Exist

  NOTE:  Weekly and Season To Date Ratings Charts Are Below The war is over:  victory is television’s (make that “television”), which after decades of being considered the Fredo Corleone of dramatic nar...
by Mitch Salem
 
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OSCARLAND: AFI Top 10s

  The American Film Institute issued its list of the year’s Top 10 movies (and television shows) today, and their selections have been quite close to the Oscar nominees over the past couple of years, so they’re...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday December 7 and Sunday December 8, 2013. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television popula...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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THE SKED NETWORK SCORECARD – 12/8/13

  Note:  NBC and FOX NFL ratings below are adjusted to reflect our estimated final numbers after time zone adjustment.  In addition, the CBS schedule ran about half an hour late in several markets, also due to football. Prel...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED PREMIERE REVIEW: “Bonnie & Clyde”

  BONNIE & CLYDE:  Concludes Monday 9PM on Lifetime/A&E/History It’s been 46 years since the classic movie, and besides, plenty of historical events and figures have been the subjects of multiple productions...
by Mitch Salem
 
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OSCARLAND: LA and Boston Don’t Clear Anything Up

  A messy awards season became even messier with the results of today’s critics group awards. The big prize of the day was the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, which… tied.  Full results are here, but Bes...
by Mitch Salem
 
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