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THE SKED @ PALEYFEST 2012: “New Girl”

> There’s something infectious about watching the people behind a brand-new TV hit enjoy their success, and at tonight’s PaleyFest salute to this year’s break-out comedy hit NEW GIRL, the pleasure of the cast ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Resurrection”

  Rarely has a TV series crashed as quickly and completely as ABC’s RESURRECTION.  It premiered just 10 months ago with a 3.8 rating in the 18-49 demo, yet last week it managed only an 0.8 (actually up a tenth from ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “The Good Wife”

  THE GOOD WIFE:  Sunday 9PM on CBS WHERE WE WERE: Waiting for Kalinda’s door to open.  She (Archie Panjabi) was calmly waiting inside with a gun, waiting for her former husband, a man who even Kalinda thinks is da...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 3/6/16

  OPENINGS:  The weekend belonged to ZOOTOPIA (Disney Animation/Disney), which broke its studio unit’s opening record and the March animation record with $73.7M, and also earned $63.4M internationally (including $24...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Major Crimes”

  TNT’s MAJOR CRIMES, like its predecessor The Closer, belongs to the “procedural-plus” subgenre, with a crime to be solved every week combined with a secondary amount of continuing serialized plot.  Ho...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Friday 8.5.2022 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  FATAL FLAW was at 0.28, followed by a rerun 20/20 at 0.31. CBS:  SECRET CELEBRITY RENOVATION  returned at 0.23, followed by reruns at 0.21/0.24. NBC:  A rerun AMERICAN NINJA WARRIOR was at 0.23...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED’S SUNDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 7/21/19

Sadly, if not surprisingly, the most notable development on TV last night was the quick dissipation of any promise from last week’s premiere that The Newsroom had learned from its Season 1 mistakes, as its insufferable s...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED’S PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “The Mindy Project”

A lot can happen between the creation of a TV pilot in the spring and the production of episodes for the regular season: a writing/producing team is hired, audience focus groups weigh in, networks and studios (which may have ha...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Review: “The Wiz Live”

  THE WIZ LIVE was the smoothest, best-cast and best-sung yet of NBC’s annual Broadway musical pageants, although it had its own issues.  The network, and producers Neil Meron and Craig Zadan, made a demographic cho...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 6.16.2019

  Note:  The Father’s Day tide is expected to lift virtually all movie boats on Sunday, and the studios have factored that into their weekend estimates.  However, next weekend’s declines may be steeper than u...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED REVIEW: “Game Change”

> On Saturday night, HBO’s GAME CHANGE scored the network’s highest premiere rating for an original TV-movie in 8 years.  (As it always the case with HBO, the movie will be rebroadcast many times, as well as be...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY WEDNESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 10.3.2018

  Declines and disappointments. 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 Salem
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Sunday 1.2.2022 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  The networks generally returned from their holiday breaks.  AMERICA’S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS had aired a December 26 episode, and it was down a tenth to 0.33.  The rest of the lineup hadn...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED Season Premiere Review: “Eastbound & Down”

  EASTBOUND & DOWN:  Sunday 10PM on HBO EASTBOUND & DOWN is an acquired taste that, to be honest, I’ve never quite acquired.  Not that the show hasn’t made me laugh, not that I fail to recognize the g...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

OSCARLAND: The National Society of Film Critics Dances To Its Own Beat

  The National Society of Film Critics is the only major group that withholds its honors until after year-end, and for the most part its choices today were as idiosyncratic as its scheduling.  With the exception of Best A...
by Mitch Salem