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THE SKED: “3” Reaches Zero

  After just 2 episodes and less than a single week, CBS has yanked the disastrous dating show 3 from its schedule.  No one can blame it:  the show launched with a “special” airing on Thursday after Big Broth...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “Vice Principals”

  VICE PRINCIPALS:  Sunday 10:30PM on HBO – In the Queue Your feelings about HBO’s new VICE PRINCIPALS are likely to be determined by your instinctive reaction to the name Danny McBride.  For a decade now, si...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED Season Premiere Review: “Mad Men”

  MAD MEN:  Sunday 10PM on AMC Fresh episodes of MAD MEN will likely still be airing more than a year from now, so all the obituaries for the series that have been appearing lately run the risk of sounding like “Gen...
by Mitch Salem
 
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UPDATED: THE SKED CABLE/NETWORK THURSDAY SCORECARD 6/5/14

  NETWORK UPDATE:  Time-zone adjusted numbers for Game 1 of THE NBA FINALS increased to 6.0, 0.3 above last year’s Game 1.  However, those same adjustments reduced the primetime JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE by a full point to 1.1...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED PILOT REPORTS: The CW’s “Ringer”

> Disclaimer:  Network pilots now in circulation are not necessarily in the form that will air in the Fall.  Pilots are often reedited and rescored, and in some cases even recast or reshot.  So these critiques sh...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY TUESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 12.13.2016

  THE VOICE finale won the night, but ABC had a (mostly) good evening. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary key advertiser demographics (adult 18-34, 18-49...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 2.13.2022

  OPENINGS:  Note that the entire market in the US will be hit by Super Bowl Sunday, which will be down from Saturday by roughly double the percentage of the usual Saturday-Sunday drop.  (However, Hollywood will hope for...
by Mitch Salem
 
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UPDATED: THE SKED CABLE & NETWORK SCORECARD – 10/9/13

  AFTERNOON UPDATE:  For the third consecutive night, all the broadcast networks were beaten by cable in the 10PM hour.  On Monday it was ESPN’s MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL, on Tuesday FX won with SONS OF ANARCHY, and la...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED SERIES FINALE REVIEW: “The Office”

  Has any great television series ever had the protracted, agonizing death of THE OFFICE?  We’re used to shows that stay on the air past their prime, and to those with disappointing or even disastrous finale episode...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED Series Finale Review: “Star-Crossed”

  Well, at least human heroine Emery (Aimee Teegarden) and alien hero Roman (Matt Lanter) got to have sex before STAR-CROSSED came to its abbreviated end.  The series was among those to discover in the last few days that ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED’S NIELSENWAR: The First Back Orders

  NBC understandably wants to shout its early-season good tidings as loudly as possible, and to that end it’s given very quick back orders (9 additional episodes on top of the 13-episode initial order) to REVOLUTION,...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Pilot + 1

THE SKED Pilot (+1) Review: “Undateable”

  UNDATEABLE:  Thursday 9PM on NBC – Change the Channel UNDATEABLE, whose episodes NBC is burning off two at a time on summer Thursday nights, may not be quite bad enough to earn the obvious “unwatchable”...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED’S SUNDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 11/25/12

We don’t know yet how Lindsay & Dick did on Lifetime. ABC:  ONCE UPON A TIME rebounded to 3.0, up 0.3 from its last episode, which aired against an NFL overtime game (ABC’s primetime line-up was preempted last ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED: ABC Season Finales

  The gang’s all here, now that ABC has joined NBC, CBS, FOX and CW and announced the dates of its season finales.  Here’s the rundown: WEDNESDAY MARCH 27 8:30PM:  The Neighbors WEDNESDAY APRIL 17 8PM:  Sub...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE BIJOU: Early Friday Boxoffice – 10.28/11

> The Hollywood Reporter has preliminary boxoffice numbers for Friday, and as expected, PUSS IN BOOTS will be the easy weekend winner.  Its $9-9.5M on Friday, if it holds, would probably mean $36-38M for the weekend, which...
by Mitch Salem
 
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