Sentences with phrase «draw big audiences»

Who'd a thunk a few years back that programs about digital security would draw big audiences at Techshow?

While it's broad - based programming isn't exactly a swashbuckling fantasy epic, it knows how to draw big audiences.

The zombie TV show's spin - off, Fear the Walking Dead, drew the biggest audience ever for a cable series premiere, with more than...

American Hustle boasts an attractive cast and, as a caper, it should draw bigger audiences than his more serious recent efforts, tackling mental illness in Silver Linings Playbook and drug addiction in The Fighter.

Though flashy dog events, such as agility, fly ball and obedience competitions, draw a bigger audience, Keevil expressed his wish that Crufts retreat back to an emphasis on simple conformation competitions.

Other cards, meanwhile, can be added to the storehouse section of your board and be played during movie production to add extra benefits, such as a lighting technician who helps draw a bigger audience via the power of making you movies look better.

Not exact matches

The Super Bowl draws TV's biggest live audience of the year, and advertisers paid more than $ 5 million for 30 second commercials.

Eager to draw the millions of viewers that some uploaders were getting, Boivin put some of his short films up on the site, only to be disappointed when the big audiences didn't come.

Part of the hype and excitement, from a business standpoint, stems from the fact that the fight represents an overlap of two big sports audiences, with the potential to draw in fans of boxing and mixed martial arts alike.

Original content has proven a big draw for video - streaming platforms such as Netflix, Amazon, Hulu and HBO GO: HBO's Game of Thrones alone scored the network its largest audience ever, while Netflix's original series of Marvel's Daredevil grabbed nearly 4.4 million viewers in its first 11 days.

TAMPA — Standing in front of an audience of several thousand scientists, data wonks, geospatial intelligence analysts and other big thinkers, Army Gen. Tony Thomas drew some laughs when he talked about the time he felt the urge to toss Google CEO Eri...

But the NFL could make the argument (and they will) that because of this structural decline, football games are more valuable — it's still one of the few things that consistently draws in big audiences relative to everything else on TV.

Though early seasons of the show drew big ratings and critical praise, in 24's final two seasons on Fox, it struggled to maintain its audience.

«Every week you are broadcasted, and every week you are praised or despised» — depending on how big the audience the programme drew.

Unfortunately the Western simply isn't the big draw for audiences it once was 30 to 40 years ago.

And there are plenty of critically acclaimed movies made by men that nevertheless don't draw in big audiences.

and wants couples whose arguments sometimes lead to «plates flying» (which draws a big laugh from the audience though if you or I said this there would be stony silence), to make peace before bedtime.

Ryan Coogler's Marvel movie is drawing in audiences at a pace only a few films ever released can match, and within the next week it is likely to pass the domestic runs of some of last year's big superhero hits like «Thor: Ragnarok,» «Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.

Though not the biggest draw in the US, where its widest theater count was 213 and final gross was $ 6 million, the film fared better with international audiences (where its $ 11 M came chiefly from Central Europe and Japan).

The Academy Awards drew its biggest TV audience in more than a decade on Sunday night, as the Oscars were shared by a variety of hit films and performances.

Because Benson is not a big name in Hollywood yet, it will be difficult for him to draw a sizable enough audience to make a profit.

Film festivals have been enamored of music documentaries for years, well aware of the drawing power and audience appeal that comes from putting popular artists on the big screen.

Nowadays we take it as a given that half of the year's biggest moneymakers are going to be cartoons: Even inferior animated sequels draw the kind of audiences once reserved for Schwarzenegger and Spielberg.

As for the dramatic roles, McAvoy might have been a bigger draw for a female audience if only he had more screen time.

Even with an intriguing premise, interesting characters and a clear direction, FlashForward wasn't able to draw a big enough audience to continue on to an obviously bigger story than 22 episodes could allow.

While a scene in which Mark gets laxatives slipped into his drink draws out the sure guffaws for those who titter at bathroom humor, that scene is also the last laugh to be had for most of the viewing audience, who will likely grow impatient for the next 30 minutes wondering when the next big gag is going to come into play.

«Empire» — which co-stars Taraji P. Henson and focuses on a family fighting for control of their record label — was the biggest success story of this past season, growing its audience every week and drawing more than 23 million viewers for its finale with seven days of viewing factored in.

In its Veteran's Day 2011 debut, this comedy drew 4.9 million viewers, a little more than a quarter of the initial audience for High School Musical 2 and a little more than half of Camp Rock's number, but bigger than all but three football games and an episode of «The Walking Dead» among that mid-November week's cable broadcasts.

The big draw, given the audience, is likely to be «Arrow,» the CW take on DC Comics hero «Green Arrow,» although given that it's from the writers of the «Green Lantern» movie, perhaps fans will be staying away like Kryptonite.

Nonetheless, the chief reason why mainstream audiences will be drawn to this film is because of the big - name stars attached to the cast, including Michael Caine, Harvey Keitel, Rachel Weisz, Paul Dano and Jane Fonda in an unforgettable cameo performance.

Additionally, because traditionally published books tend to sell for a higher price, they tend to draw an older audience whereas indie and small press books draw younger audiences (and since teens and those in their early twenties are the biggest group of readers right now, this isn't a bad thing).

But if you don't cultivate a young readership, your audience will simply die off, like Weekly Comic Bunch, the 2001 - 2010 magazine whose biggest draws were sequels to»80s manga Fist of the North Star and City Hunter.

A big part of Encore's mission is to draw upon feedback from our customers and other information to identify great books that, for any number of reasons, didn't find the audience they deserved when they were first published.

After this, you will need to implement shrewd marketing tactics to draw in a big audience to read your book and then start putting a price on it.

@Lara Amber — I viewed the Stephen Colbert piece on punishing Amazon as 1) drawing attention to the issue and the parties for audiences that might not be aware / interested and 2) more intriguing for someone who isn't a «big time» author... the person who might be self publishing with Amazon (or elsewhere), or trying to get Hachette or another publisher to sign a deal with them.

Sony previously took full advantage of the row at the E3 video games expo happily announcing that the PlayStation 4 would have no such limitations would drew big cheers from the audience.