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THE SKED Season Premiere Review: “Hart of Dixie”

  HART OF DIXIE:  Monday 8PM on CW It’s a strange thing to say about an airy, cornpone rom-com, but HART OF DIXIE is the most grounded show on the CW schedule.  None of the characters have supernatural powers; ther...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED Season Premiere Review: “Beauty & the Beast”

  BEAUTY & THE BEAST:  Monday 9PM on CW Referring to any CW series as a “bubble show” is sort of a misnomer, because with the exceptions of The Vampire Diaries, Arrow and Supernatural, everything the netwo...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED NETWORK SCORECARD – 10/7/13

  As the new season settles, just about everything last night was down. CBS:  All of the 8-10PM sitcoms were down 0.2 from last week:  HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER to 2.9, WE ARE MEN to 1.8, 2 BROKE GIRLS to 2.2 and MOM to 2.0....
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED Pilot + 1 Review: “The Originals”

  THE ORIGINALS:  Tuesday 8PM on CW Previously… on THE ORIGINALS:  The Mikaelsons have come (back) to New Orleans.  The literally original vampire family (their witch mother cast the spell that created vampirism),...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED NETWORK SCORECARD – 10/8/13

  AFTERNOON UPDATE:  In adjusted numbers, all the 8PM shows (except DADS) went up 0.1, still leaving AGENTS OF SHIELD and NCIS down a respective 0.4 and 0.7 for the night.  THE GOLDBERGS went down 0.1, putting it 0.2 beh...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

PREMIERING TONIGHT: THE SKED Pilot Review – CW’s “The Tomorrow People”

  Read All Our Fall Pilot Reports here. THE TOMORROW PEOPLE:  Wednesday 9PM on CW – If Nothing Else Is On… THE TOMORROW PEOPLE is CW sticking with the CW playbook.  The word “rip-off” may be a st...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

“We Are” Done: CBS Remakes Monday Night

  The 1.8 rating WE ARE MEN had this week was higher than any of NBC’s sitcoms last Thursday.  But it was down a huge 1.2 from its HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER lead-in, and that just wasn’t acceptable.  Today CBS bi...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED Pilot + 1 Review: “Super Fun Night”

  SUPER FUN NIGHT:  Wednesday 9:30PM on ABC Previously… on SUPER FUN NIGHT:  Kimmie (series creator Rebel Wilson) and her BFFs Marika (Lauren Ash) and Helen-Alice (Liza Lapira) share a New York apartment and nonexi...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED Pilot + 1 Review: “Ironside”

  IRONSIDE:  Wednesday 10PM on NBC Previously… on IRONSIDE:  NYPD Sergeant Robert Ironside (Blair Underwood), shot in the back and now in a wheelchair, has won the right to a hand-picked squad (Pablo Schreiber, Spe...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED Season Premiere Review: “Arrow”

  ARROW:  Wednesday 8PM on CW ARROW didn’t lose a step in its second-season return, with little sign of the season-premiere-itis often afflicting serialized shows that have to dig themselves out of the plot twists ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED Season Premiere Review: “American Horror Story – Coven”

  AMERICAN HORROR STORY – COVEN:  Wednesday 10PM on FX Caged and tortured slaves, mid-coitus spontaneous brain aneurisms and gang rape aside, the COVEN season of AMERICAN HORROR STORY was relatively restrained in it...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

UPDATED: THE SKED CABLE & NETWORK SCORECARD – 10/9/13

  AFTERNOON UPDATE:  For the third consecutive night, all the broadcast networks were beaten by cable in the 10PM hour.  On Monday it was ESPN’s MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL, on Tuesday FX won with SONS OF ANARCHY, and la...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED: “Agents of SHIELD” Keeps Avenging

  ABC gave a back order to AGENTS OF SHIELD today, and of course that makes sense, since the show’s most recent 2.9 rating was considerably higher than the 2.2 the network was getting with the Dancing With the Stars ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Film Review: “Captain Phillips”

  CAPTAIN PHILLIPS:  Order Tickets Now – Exceptionally Taut, Intelligent Real-Life Thriller Paul Greenglass is a master of capturing pulse-pounding immediacy on film, and for most directors that would be enough.  H...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED Pilot + 1 Review: “Sean Saves the World”

  SEAN SAVES THE WORLD:  Thursday 9PM on NBC Previously… on SEAN SAVES THE WORLD:  When gay dad Sean’s (Sean Hayes) ex-wife moves out of town for a new job, Sean becomes single dad to 14-year old Ellie (Saman...
by Mitch Salem