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THE SKED: “Angels” Go To Heaven

> Last night’s slight ratings increase wasn’t enough to save CHARLIE’S ANGELS, which has just been cancelled by ABC.  That leaves Pan Am as the only remaining ABC show launched in September (Last Man Stan...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE BIJOU REVIEW: “Hugo”





Our Review / 5 - Terrible
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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “Secrets & Lies”

  SECRETS & LIES – Sunday 9PM on ABC – Change the Channel Everything about the return of ABC’s SECRETS & LIES feels a bit off.  Even the scheduling of the quasi-anthology series (different storie...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY SUNDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 3.18.2018

  Basketball scrambled INSTINCT’s premiere. 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), ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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UPDATED: THE SKED CABLE/NETWORK SUNDAY SCORECARD – 6/8/14

NETWORK UPDATE:  The time-zone adjusted rating for Game 2 of the NBA FINALS climbed to 6.0.  As expected, the primetime JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE and NBA COUNTDOWN dropped heavily, from 2.2/2.3 to 1.1/1.3. SATURDAY CABLE:  StarzR...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED PILOT REPORT: CBS’s “2 Broke Girls”

> 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 WEDNESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 3.14.2018

  SPEECHLESS didn’t demonstrate an ability to thrive on its own. 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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EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “Star Trek Beyond” Less Than Bold, “Lights Out” Bright, “Ice Age” Frozen Stiff

  STAR TREK BEYOND (Skydance/Alibaba/Huahua/Paramount) is showing a fair franchise hold by the standards of this summer.  Based on preliminary numbers at Deadline, it had a $23M opening day (including $5.5M from Thursda...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Friday 1.27.2023 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  SHARK TANK gained 0.07 to 0.59, and 20/20 was up 0.05 to 0.46. CBS:  Reruns at 0.21/0.22/0.21. NBC:  US FIGURE SKATING was at 0.20. FOX:  WWE SMACKDOWN jumped 0.12 to 0.67. CW:  PENN & TEL...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED SERIES PREMIERE REVIEW: “Crossing Lines”

  CROSSING LINES:  Sunday 10PM on NBC – If Nothing Else Is On… Television’s changing economics will probably lead to a lot more internationally financed co-productions as time goes on.  In terms of cont...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Three Musketeers”

    THE THREE MUSKETEERS:  Not At Any Price – All For None and None For All   If the last couple of Pirates of the Caribbean movies and the current Sherlock Holmes franchise had a really nasty, dirty weeke...
by Mitch Salem
 
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US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office Report – 12.13.2020

  OPENINGS:  There were no wide openings this weekend.  Limited releases included WILD MOUNTAIN THYME (Bleecker Street, also available digitally) at 450 theatres with a $223 per-theatre weekend average and a $100K total;...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “Silicon Valley”

  SILICON VALLEY:  Sunday 10PM on HBO – DVR Alert There’s no algorithm (yet) to predict compatibility between TV series, so we don’t know yet how SILICON VALLEY will fare in the ratings, or for that matt...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Shameless”

> The second-season finale of Showtime’s SHAMELESS was unusually low-key for the rambunctious series, the result of having to deal with the aftermath of last week’s Thanksgiving dinner, where bipolar mom Monica (Chl...
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SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “Trial & Error”

  TRIAL & ERROR:  Tuesday 9PM on NBC – If Nothing Else Is On… NBC’s TRIAL & ERROR is a cluttered joke-book of a sitcom that parodies true-crime docuseries like Making A Murderer and especially Th...
by Mitch Salem
 
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