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THE SKED Sunday Cable Scorecard – 10/13/13

  One guess what’s on top.  The surprise, though, is how little the walkers fed off their competition. AMC:  We already know that THE WALKING DEAD literally topped almost everything else in primetime television all...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

UPDATED: THE SKED NETWORK SCORECARD – 10/15/13

  AFTERNOON UPDATE:  All the 8PM shows except THE ORIGINALS were adjusted up 0.1 in final numbers, so their position relative to each other stayed the same–but ABC must be relieved that AGENTS OF SHIELD declined just 0....
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

OSCARLAND: We Are Here

  Like presidential politics, the Oscar race doesn’t really stop anymore; one campaign gets underway before the last has even ended.  Argo had yet to collect its statuettes in February before we were already hearing...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

PREMIERING TONIGHT – THE SKED SERIES PREMIERE REVIEW: CW’s “Reign”

  Read All Our Fall Pilot Reports here. REIGN:  Thursday 9PM on CW – Potential DVR Alert The CW is often–and rightly–considered a network of very limited ambitions, with just two modes of operation:  ro...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED Pilot + 1 Review: “The Tomorrow People”

  THE TOMORROW PEOPLE:  Wednesday 9PM on CW Previously… on THE TOMORROW PEOPLE:  Stephen Jameson (Robbie Amell) is a teenager who also happens to be “homo superior,” aka one of The Tomorrow People.  Th...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED NETWORK SCORECARD – 10/16/13

  The night’s new shows still aren’t catching on. ABC:  BACK TO THE GAME was given a particularly strong lead-in with a TOY STORY OF TERROR special that had a 3.0, up 0.8 from last week’s The Middle.  Still...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED Pilot + 1 Review: “Once Upon A Time In Wonderland”

  ONCE UPON A TIME IN WONDERLAND:  Thursday 8PM on ABC Previously… on ONCE UPON A TIME IN WONDERLAND:  In this revisionist spin on the classic tale, a Victorian-era young adult Alice (Sophie Lowe) has escaped from ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED NETWORK SCORECARD – 10/17/13

  CW’s experiment with historical romance didn’t get off to a great start. CW:  An 0.8 isn’t a terrible number for CW, so if REIGN can manage to hold there, it has a chance.  But its debut was 0.2 below...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED: Decision Day at CBS, FOX and NBC

  With most of another week’s ratings in the books, CBS, FOX and NBC took care of business today–although the first two networks handed out promotions while the Peacock issued pink slips. CBS gave back orders t...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED Season Premiere Review: “White Collar”

  WHITE COLLAR:  Thursday 9PM on USA Season 5 of WHITE COLLAR couldn’t be in more of a rush to get the hell away from its Season 4 cliffhanger.  When we left intrepid FBI agent Peter Burke (Tim DeKay), he was in pr...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Film Review: “Carrie”

  CARRIE:  Watch It At Home – Respectable But Uninspired Rebo The talented director Kimberley Peirce plays a losing game with her remake of Brian DePalma’s iconic 1976 CARRIE.  (In fairness to Peirce, it̵...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE – 10/18/13

  It’s not much of a surprise at this point that GRAVITY (Warners) continues to run rings around its competition.  Based on preliminary numbers at Deadline, the blockbuster will easily win its third consecutive week...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED NETWORK SCORECARD – 10/18/13

  Whatever Undercover Boss did last night, it should do that again. CBS:  On a mostly quiet network night, UNDERCOVER BOSS zoomed by half a ratings point to 1.8–not quite the biggest show of the evening, but close.�...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

BEHIND THE FRIDAY BOX OFFICE – 10/18/13

  OPENINGS:  When Paramount pushed the next Paranormal Activity to 2014, it seemed to give CARRIE (Screen Gems/Sony/MGM) an open field to own the Halloween movie season.  But audiences weren’t interested, and Carri...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED Series Finale Review: “The White Queen”

  Although Starz was a co-financier of THE WHITE QUEEN, the show was produced by the BBC predominantly for a British audience, so it helped to have a working (or at least a Wikipedia) knowledge of 15th-century English hist...
by Mitch Salem