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THE SKED’S SUNDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 12/16/12

  With live coverage of football and President Obama’s address to the families of Newtown, last night’s ratings won’t really be clear until final numbers are released tomorrow.  What follows is a very pr...
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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SHOWBUZZDAILY SUNDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 6.17.2018

  SHADES OF BLUE returned low. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary key advertiser demographics (adult 18-34, 18-49 and 25-54 ratings), audience skews (wom...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “The Good Nurse” & “My Policeman”

  THE GOOD NURSE (Netflix – Oct. 26):  An unusually serious thriller about a serial killer.  Tobias Lindholm’s film, from a script by Krysty Wilson-Cairns (who wrote 1917 and  Last Night In Soho) and based o...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED: It’s Not HBO; It’s Showtime

> Showtime is having a very good season.  Subscriptions are up, HOMELAND has, for the first time, put the network in HBO’s orbit of prestige, and the reburbished Sunday night line-up of SHAMELESS, HOUSE OF LIES and C...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED Season Finale Review: “Episodes”

  Showtime’s EPISODES has improved markedly from its first season, which mostly invited viewers to join British television writers Sean and Beverly Lincoln (Stephen Mangan and Tamsin Greig) as they turned their noses...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Saturday 3.5.2022 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED

  BROADCAST FINALS:  ABC’s NBA game was at 0.79.  FOX’s MLS match was at 0.15.  CW’s originals were at 0.06/0.06.  In late night, NBC’s SNL dropped 0.05 to 0.81.   Broadcast Official Nation...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “No”

  In 1988, the Chilean military dictatorship headed by General Augusto Pinochet was forced by diplomatic pressure to finally permit a democratic election, in order to prove its claim that the country’s people support...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Breaking Bad”

  Visually, this season of BREAKING BAD has been typified by shots of Walter White’s looming, shaven, gleaming skull.  A bald pate may not have received this much loving camera attention since Brando’s in Apoc...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Pilot Reports

SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “The Good Doctor”

  THE GOOD DOCTOR:  Monday 10PM on ABC – Change the Channel ABC’s THE GOOD DOCTOR arrives with some pedigree, being a medical series from David Shore, the creator of House, and starring Freddie Highmore, fresh...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY Review: The Oscars

  There were no surprises of any scale at tonight’s ACADEMY AWARDS (a full list of winners is here) , and that went for the telecast, too.  Neil Patrick Harris was as personable a host as anticipated, and he/his wr...
by Mitch Salem
 
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BEHIND THE FRIDAY BOXOFFICE – 11/9/12

  Bond is Boxoffice.  Big boxoffice. OPENINGS:  SKYFALL (Sony/MGM) and its $30.8M opening day (that doesn’t include $2.2M from Thursday’s IMAX-only “previews”) was about 12% ahead of the first day...
by Mitch Salem
 
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BRIDESMAIDS: Bachelorette Party

> Watch It At Home: As Long and Uneven As a Real-Life Wedding. Few recent movies have arrived bearing such a bouquet of goodwill as the new comedy BRIDESMAIDS.  It marks the movie starring and screenwriting (with Annie Mum...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Pilot Reports

PREMIERING TONIGHT – THE SKED’S FALL PILOT REPORT: FOX’s “The Mindy Project”

    THE MINDY PROJECT: Tuesday 9:30PM on FOX – DVR Alert Companion shows don’t come more perfectly designed than FOX’s THE MINDY PROJECT.  When FOX launched New Girl last fall, it became an instant ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY MONDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 10.9.2017

  VALOR showed little grace under fire. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary key advertiser demographics (adult 18-34, 18-49 and 25-54 ratings), audience s...
by Mitch Salem
 
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