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Midseason Premiere

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “Glee”

  GLEE:  Friday 9PM on FOX Among the many wrongheaded decisions made by FOX over the last several years, one was giving GLEE a two-year renewal–just as the bottom was starting to fall out of its ratings.  Last year...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Midseason Premiere

SHOWBUZZDAILIY Series Premiere Review: “Empire”

  EMPIRE:  Wednesday 9PM on FOX – Potential DVR Alert The producer/writer/director Lee Daniels creates films that are compellingly moving (Precious), insane (The Paperboy) or both (The Butler), so it’s a wonde...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Midseason Premiere

SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “Agent Carter”

  AGENT CARTER:  Tuesday 9PM on ABC – Potential DVR Alert Marvel’s AGENT CARTER was more sure-footed in its start than the fantasy factory’s Agents of SHIELD was–maybe more than the improved SHIE...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Reviews

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “Downton Abbey”

  DOWNTON ABBEY – Sunday 9PM on PBS When it started airing 5 years ago, DOWNTON ABBEY was an artifact of nostalgia for a vanished era of British society, one Americans for all our proud egalitarianism have always eat...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Midseason Premiere

SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “Galavant”

  GALAVANT:  Sunday 8PM on ABC – If Nothing Else Is On… GALAVANT is one of the goofier network enterprises in recent memory.  It’s a fairy tale comedy-musical created by Dan Fogelman (whose resume cover...
by Mitch Salem
 
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2014-15 TV Season

NIELSENWAR Network Midterm Grades: FOX

  The midseason part of the broadcast network schedule kicks off in a few hours, and we’ve spent the past few days taking a look at ABC, CBS and NBC.  Today it’s the turn of the most critical patient in the qu...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Articles

Behind the US/Worldwide Holiday Weekend Box Office – 1/4/15

  OPENING:  THE WOMAN IN BLACK 2:  ANGEL OF DEATH (Relativity) fell to 4th place for the weekend, as expected, after a strong opening day.  Still, a $15.1M haul for the cheap thriller isn’t at all bad, and it woul...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Articles

NIELSENWAR Network Midterm Grades: NBC

  We’re continuing with our examination of the broadcast networks as they near the launch of the midseason part of their schedules.  We’ve already assigned grades to ABC and CBS, and today it’s Peacock s...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Articles

Behind the Friday Box Office – 1/2/15

  Hollywood’s very successful holiday season rolled into the first Friday of 2015, and the fun should continue today, until end-of-break factors kick in on Sunday, when for the first day in nearly 2 weeks numbers wil...
by Mitch Salem
 
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2014-15 TV Season

NIELSENWAR Network Midterm Grades: CBS

  We’re taking these last days before the broadcast networks’ midseason begins to scrutinize how those still-powerful dinosaurs fared during the fall.  Yesterday we looked at ABC, and today it’s the turn...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Articles

New Year’s Box Office: The Usual Suspects Hold Their Lead In 2015

  A touch of new blood (so to speak) hit multiplexes with the Thursday night arrival of THE WOMAN IN BLACK 2: ANGEL OF DEATH (Relativity).  Its $1.5M result was fairly high for such a low-budget horror item, but then agai...
by Mitch Salem
 
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2014-15 TV Season

NIELSENWAR Network Midterm Grades: ABC

  The broadcast networks aren’t what they used to be, and likely will never be again.  They’re collectively on a train that’s moving in the wrong direction, because the lion’s share of their revenu...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Other

THE 10 BEST TV SHOWS OF 2014 and Other Small-Screen Thoughts

  How long can television (or “television,” since programming is now viewed on a multitude of screens and platforms) stay as good as it is right now?  It used to be tough to find 10 TV shows in a year worthy o...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Articles

UPDATED: HOLIDAY WEEKEND US/WORLDWIDE BOX OFFICE: Deck the Multiplex Halls

  UPDATE:  The release of THE INTERVIEW continues to be improvisational, and contrary to regular practice–as well as Sony’s previously expressed plans–the studio announced on Sunday that in addition to i...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Articles

HOLIDAY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE SCORECARD: Hobbit, Unbroken, Into the Woods Stay Strong

  Hollywood continued to have box office gifts to unwrap on the day after Christmas. WIDE RELEASE:  THE HOBBIT:  THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES (New Line/MGM/Warners) gained 19% from Christmas Day on Friday to $15.7M, put...
by Mitch Salem
 
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