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THE SKED Season Finale Review: “The 100″”

  Season 1 of CW’s THE 100 worked better than logic suggested it should, considering that it was basically a thrift shop of plotlines and tropes from other, more ambitious fantasies, some aimed at teens (The Hunger G...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED: ABC (Finally) Hearts “Cougar Town”

> It’s taken far, far too long, but the news that COUGAR TOWN fans have been longing for has finally arrived:  the smart, quirky, hilarious ensemble comedy that isn’t about cougars of any kind has found a home ...
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UPDATED: THE SKED CABLE/NETWORK MONDAY SCORECARD – 6/9/14

  NETWORK UPDATE:  The HILLARY CLINTON: PUBLIC AND PRIVATE special went up 0.1 in final numbers, as did its BACHELORETTE clip show lead-in, and so did MASTERCHEF.  The new WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY, however, lost 0.1. MONDAY C...
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THE SKED PILOT REPORT: PREMIERING TONIGHT – “Bent”

> 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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Behind the Friday Box Office – 4/25/14

  This will be the last weekend without a mega-hit on top for a while. OPENINGS:  THE OTHER WOMAN (20th) will take the weekend with around $25M after a $9.3M Friday, and the potentially better news is that Diaz’s la...
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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 10.31.2021

  OPENINGS:  Taking the spotlight from higher-profile arrivals, the anime title MY HERO ACADEMIA: WORLD HEROES’ MISSION (Funimation) was the weekend’s highest-grossing newcomer with $6.4M, better than the $5.9...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED: More ABC Decisions

  ABC looks to be all but done with its pre-Upfront orders, adding several bubble show renewals and a few new series to its prior haul.  DON’T TRUST THE B___ IN APT 23, LAST MAN STANDING, BODY OF PROOF, and PRIVATE ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THANKSGIVING DAY BOX OFFICE: “Catching Fire” and “Frozen” Carve the Turkey

  As usual, Thanksgiving Day itself was down for many films.  However, that didn’t keep the holiday’s pair of blockbusters from rewriting the record books. THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE (Lionsgate) set a new...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Boss”

  Few television series have worked so hard to be unlikeable as BOSS.  There had been some thought, after its initial off-putting season, that when Starz replaced series creator Farhad Safinia with Dee Johnson as showrunn...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 12.31.2017

  OPENINGS:  ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD (Imperative/TriStar/Sony) opened on Monday to an indifferent public that didn’t care about Kevin Spacey being replaced with Christopher Plummer, and nothing has changed over t...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Current Release

SHOWBUZZDAILY FILM REVIEW: “2 Guns”

  2 GUNS:  Watch It At Home – Mindless Movie Action, The Old-Fashioned Way In this endless CG demo reel of a summer, the old-time, human-scaled mayhem of 2 GUNS is downright charming.  The idea of an action movie s...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Midseason Premiere

SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “The Messengers”

  THE MESSENGERS:  Friday 9PM on CW – Change the Channel CW wasn’t in any rush to get THE MESSENGERS on its air, holding it until the last month of the broadcast season, and then putting the show in the lowest...
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THE SKED NETWORK SCORECARD – 10/11/13

  A few Thursday footnotes before the dreary Friday numbers.  NBC, with a 1.1 primetime average, not only tied its all-time in-season low for a Thursday without reruns, it was in 7th place among all networks, behind not j...
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AFI FEST Film Review: “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”

  THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY:  Buy A Ticket – Ben Stiller’s Imaginative, Flawed Reboot Of The Classic Tale The movies Ben Stiller directs for himself (Reality Bites, Zoolander, Tropic Thunder) are nearly ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “Mistresses”

  MISTRESSES:  Thursday 9PM on ABC MISTRESSES lost its marquee star this season, when Alyssa Milano declined to move with the show to its new (cheaper) Vancouver shooting location.  We’ll see what effect, if any, t...
by Mitch Salem
 
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