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EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “X-Men” Mutates Holiday Weekend, “Blended” Doesn’t Mix

  X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST (20th) was fated to walk away with Memorial Day Weekend, and it’s starting off its run in high style, with a preliminary $36M (including $8.1M from Thursday night) reported at Deadline an...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Current Release

SHOWBUZZDAILY Film Review: “Blended”

  BLENDED:  Not Even For Free – A Bad Sitcom Episode, 4 Times As Long On the Adam Sandler Movie Pain-o-Meter (patent pending), the new BLENDED ranks about midway between the not-so-bad Just Go With It and the soul-c...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Current Release

SHOWBUZZDAILY Film Review: “X-Men: Days of Future Past”

  X-MEN:  DAYS OF FUTURE PAST:  Buy A Ticket – For Once, The Script Is As Mighty As the CG After the money-making meatball that was Godzilla, X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST serves welcome notice that a movie can cost ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Articles

THURSDAY NIGHT BOX OFFICE: “X-Men” Marks Weekend Spot With $8.1M

  X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST (20th) began with a bang last night, earning $8.1M from Thursday night shows.  Although that’s less than Captain America: The Winter Soldier ($10.2M), Godzilla ($9.3M), and The Amazing S...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Articles

UPDATED: THE SKED CABLE/NETWORK THURSDAY SCORECARD – 5/22/14

  NETWORK UPDATE:  Only HELL’S KITCHEN and the night’s rerun of MODERN FAMILY found an extra 0.1 in the couch cushions.  THURSDAY CABLE:  With no NBA Playoff games scheduled, it was a quiet night.  The NHL ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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2014-15 TV Season

NIELSENWAR 2014-15: SHOWBUZZDAILY’S Fearless Fall Ratings Predictions – Full Network Week

  Here are our night-by-night ratings predictions for the Fall network television season:  Monday,  Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,  Friday, and Sunday Now that we’ve gone through each night’s Fall ratings, l...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Midseason Pilots

PREMIERING TONIGHT: THE SKED Pilot Review: “Gang-Related”

  GANG-RELATED:  Thursday 9PM on FOX – Change the Channel I think my favorite cliche in the pilot for FOX’s burn-off drama GANG-RELATED–out of, believe me, plenty of choices–comes at the end of an ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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2014-15 TV Season

NIELSENWAR 2014-15: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Fearless Fall Ratings Predictions – Sunday

  The rest of the week:  Monday,  Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. The Saturday primetime network schedule, such as it is, isn’t worth much attention, being a patchwork of reruns and sports (although we wil...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Articles

UPDATED: THE SKED CABLE/NETWORK WEDNESDAY SCORECARD – 5/21/14

NETWORK UPDATE:  The season finale of SURVIVOR edged up 0.1 in final numbers, moving it into a tie with AMERICAN IDOL.  (The SURVIVOR post-finale special lost 0.1.)  The season finales of THE MIDDLE and MODERN FAMILY both ga...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Reviews

THE SKED Season Finale Review: “The Americans”

  In its second season, THE AMERICANS continued to be a expertly crafted saga of betrayals, both political and personal.  Tonight’s chilling season finale, written by series creator Joe Weisberg and his co-showrunne...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Reviews

THE SKED Season Premiere Review: “Motive”

  MOTIVE:  Wednesday 10PM on ABC Welcome to summer network TV. The broadcast networks talk a good game about the new 12-months-a-year world of television–and to its credit, CBS has been relatively ambitious with Und...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Reviews

THE SKED Season Finale Review: “Law & Order: Special VIctims Unit”

  A return visit to LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT on the occasion of its 15th season finale revealed a procedural that had gone positively soapy–possibly a result of creator Dick Wolf’s recent success w...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Reviews

THE SKED Series Finale Review: “Revolution”

  REVOLUTION was sort of a sad story.  The lights-are-out sci-fi adventure was NBC’s top priority in Fall 2012, promoted like crazy and given the network’s prized post-The Voice timeslot.  At first the show l...
by Mitch Salem
 
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2014-15 TV Season

NIELSENWAR 2014-15: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Fearless Fall Ratings Predictions – Friday

  Fridays aren’t the most exciting night on the broadcast network schedule, but there are some interesting changes coming next fall.  We’re following our predictions for Monday,  Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thurs...
by Mitch Salem
 
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2014-15 TV Season

NIELSENWAR 2014-15: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Fearless Fall Ratings Predictions – Thursday

  Thursdays are going to look very different next season, so let’s jump right into our very early fall ratings predictions.  We’ve already taken a look at Monday,  Tuesday, and Wednesday, and as before, our p...
by Mitch Salem
 
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