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THE SKED Season Finale Review: “Bates Motel”

  The second season of BATES MOTEL has been two largely separate series, and one of them is well worth watching.  That’s the one about teenaged Norman Bates (Freddie Highmore), the sensitive and high-strung taxiderm...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED Season Finale Review: “2 Broke Girls”

  2 BROKE GIRLS is a serviceable sitcom for CBS, and in its 3rd season, it knows fairly well how to do what it does.  The show hangs on the comic charisma of Kat Dennings as wise-ass, tough-but-vulnerable waitress and asp...
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NIELSENWAR: Pre-Upfront – What Will the Networks Do?

  The network averages for last week are significant because they represent a full week of sweeps programming, which means reruns were at a minimum and some stunting (although not a tremendous amount of it: a Chicago Fire/...
by Mitch Salem
 
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UPDATED: THE SKED CABLE/NETWORK SCORECARD – 5/2/14

  NETWORK UPDATE:  SHARK TANK went even higher in final Friday numbers, up 0.1 to a new season high 2.3.  However, the entire NBC line-up (which had been preempted in Portland for an NBA playoff game) went down, DATELINE...
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THE SKED Season Finale Review: “Resurrection”

  As bad as it is for a network when it launches a new series and no one shows up, in a way it has to be worse when the series premiere has a huge start–and then viewers drop away in droves once they’ve given i...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Behind the Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 5/4/14

  OPENINGS:  As summer kick-off weekends go, the $92M for THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (Sony)–which may go down by $1M or so in final numbers tomorrow, given an aggressively high Sunday estimate–was pretty mild.  I...
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EARLY WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: “Spider-Man” Slips But Still Dominates

  THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 (Sony) didn’t succeed in outperforming other recent superhero movies in its Saturday matinees, and probably won’t supplant Captain America 2 as the year’s #1 opening to date, bu...
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THE SKED Review: “Saturday Night Live” with Andrew Garfield

  When inspiration hit this week’s SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, it came from an unexpected direction.  African-American staff writer Leslie Jones, who isn’t an official cast member, pretty much blew the doors off Week...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Behind the Friday Box Office – 5/2/14

  OPENINGS:  The opening day of THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 (Sony) was actually a touch behind the opening day of the first Amazing ($35.2M to $35.9M).  However the earlier movie had a different trajectory, opening on the T...
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EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “Spider-Man” Is Big–But How Big?

  Friday night numbers for THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 (Sony) should be considered more preliminary than usual, because the $34-35M figures for the day at Deadline and elsewhere are based on the idea that while Amazing 2 had ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED Pilot + 1 Review: “Black Box”

  BLACK BOX:  Thursday 10PM on ABC Previously… on BLACK BOX:  Dr. Catherine Black (Kelly Reilly) is a brilliant neurologist who happens also to be hiding her bipolar condition from almost everyone in her life, even...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Studio Summer Movie Guide: Paramount

  The summer movie season is officially underway, just in time for us to finish our look at the line-ups and prospects for each of the big studios.  That brings us to Paramount Pictures, the least busy but hardly the quie...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THURSDAY NIGHT BOX OFFICE: Not So “Amazing” $8.7M Start for Spidey

  THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (Sony) launched with 7PM screenings last night and earned $8.7M, which was considerably below expectations.  Although Amazing 2 topped the opening night for the first Amazing, that one started on ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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UPDATED: THE SKED CABLE/NETWORK SCORECARD – 5/1/14

  AFTERNOON UPDATE:  BAD TEACHER is already on life support, down another 0.1 in adjusted numbers to 1.4.  As often happens, THE BIG BANG THEORY gained 0.1 at the expense of THE MILLERS.  THE VAMPIRE DIARIES avoided tying i...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED Season Finale Review: “Sirens”

  A return visit to SIRENS after having seen its initial episodes revealed that the series, produced and co-created (with Bob Fisher) for US television by Denis Leary, had become even more like Rescue Me without fires, now...
by Mitch Salem
 
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