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THE SKED: CBS Fall Schedule and Instant Analysis

Posted May 16, 2012 by Mitch Salem

  When you’re CBS, you don’t have to do much.   J   Let’s take a look, night by night: MONDAY:  CBS confounded expectations by not expanding its comedy presence on Thursdays.  So it was less important that the sitcom moving over there have a long potential lifespan, which allowed the network to instead shift […]

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THE SKED: The Fall Schedule So Far

Posted May 15, 2012 by Mitch Salem

With CBS still in the wings, here’s the Fall Network TV Schedule as we know it for now:     Later this week, SHOWBUZZDAILY will have something you won’t find anywhere else:  projected ratings for the entire Fall Schedule, across all networks–so stay tuned!  

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THE SKED: ABC Fall Schedule and Instant Analysis

Posted May 15, 2012 by Mitch Salem

Lots of moves from ABC, some–but not all–of which we anticipated.   Let’s take a look night-by-night: MONDAY:  The aging DANCING WITH THE STARS isn’t ideal, but as we anticipated, it’s the best ABC is likely to do on the night for now, paired with the returning CASTLE.  

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THE SKED: FOX Fall Schedule and Instant Analysis

Posted May 14, 2012 by Mitch Salem

FOX announced a very reasonable schedule–which is to say their choices were mostly in agreement with our recommendations.     A quick look at each night:

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THE SKED’S SCHEDULE: CBS

Posted May 13, 2012 by Mitch Salem

  Mitch Metcalf and I, along with veteran network executive Ted Frank, have put together our own versions of the schedules (the real ones will be announced at the nework Upfronts in New York next week). We’ve already posted our recommended NBC, FOX and ABC schedules.  CBS will be the last of the major networks […]

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THE SKED’S SCHEDULE: ABC

Posted May 13, 2012 by Mitch Salem

  Mitch Metcalf and I, along with veteran network executive Ted Frank, have put together our own versions of the schedules (the real ones will be announced at the nework Upfronts in New York next week). We’ve posted our recommended schedules for NBC, FOX and CBS.  ABC will announce its schedule on Tuesday, but before […]

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THE SKED: NBC Fall Schedule and Instant Analysis

Posted May 13, 2012 by Mitch Salem

  There’s an old saying that you can’t plan for crazy.  And that brings us to some of NBC’s official Fall TV schedule:     Let’s take a look, night by night. MONDAY:  Things begin logically enough, with the return of THE VOICE leading into one of the network’s new dramas.  We had Infamous in […]

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THE SKED’S SCHEDULE: FOX

Posted May 11, 2012 by Mitch Salem

  The broadcast networks will officially announce their schedules next week at the Upfronts in New York, but before that happens, Mitch Metcalf and I, along with veteran network executive Ted Frank, have put together our own versions–reflecting the needs and possibilities of each network, as we’d previously detailed.     We’ve posted our recommended […]

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