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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “American Crime”

  AMERICAN CRIME:  Wednesday 10PM on ABC AMERICAN CRIME‘s first season was, if not great network television, certainly ballsy.  John Ridley’s series took on race and class and religion to boot, and it was sho...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Pilot Reports

THE SKED SERIES PREMIERE REVIEW: “Camp”

  CAMP:  Wednesday 10PM on NBC – If Nothing Else Is On… If drive-in theaters hadn’t been superseded by multiplexes, NBC’s new CAMP would be the TV equivalent of a drive-in movie, a throwback to B-m...
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Articles

THE SKED’S THURSDAY SCRIPTED CABLE SCORECARD – 6/19/12

  A new entry in the summer scripted brigade. TBS:  SULLIVAN & SON had a mediocre debut.  The first of its back-to-back episodes kicked off fairly well, just about even with the BIG BANG THEORY rerun that preceded it...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Reviews

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “The Walking Dead”

  THE WALKING DEAD:  Sunday 9PM on AMC Based on everything we know about THE WALKING DEAD, it seemed a safe assumption after the Season 4 finale that we’d be spending a large chunk of Season 5 trapped with our heroe...
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The Sked

The Sked: PROMO WATCH — Through Wednesday October 19

>NBC is really turning on the heat to launch Grimm in its tough Friday night time period next week.  Over the last week, NBC has given 170 promo seconds to Grimm in our sampled shows, including a robust 55 seconds in ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Articles

UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Thursday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 4.22.2021

        NETWORK FINALS:  There were meaningful adjustments (to the next tenth) for GREY’S ANATOMY, YOUNG SHELDON, UNITED STATES OF AL, and SVU.         Broadcast Official Nationals Pro...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Articles

THE SKED: A Greendale Holiday – Dan Harmon Returns to “Community”

  It’s still not officially true– in fact, Deadline reports that the deal has hit “a snag”–but all signs are that the once and future king of Greendale Community College, Dan Harmon, is return...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Articles

THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “New Girl”

      It’s not all that unusual for a TV comedy to improve during the course of its first season, as it discovers its distinctive comic voice (that was the case with Happy Endings, and The Office as well).�...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Articles

UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Wednesday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 12.9.2020

        NETWORK FINALS:  THE MASKED SINGER gained 0.1 in final numbers.  Following up on a note from our morning post, during the course of its 2 hours THE GRINCH MUSICAL dropped in the 18-49 demo from 0.79 in...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Pilot + 1

THE SKED’S PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “Under the Dome”

  UNDER THE DOME:  Monday 10PM on CBS Previously… on UNDER THE DOME:  Well, there’s a giant freaking dome.  One peaceful Sunday afternoon, it suddenly came down over Chester’s Mill, Maine, enveloping t...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Pilot Reports

THE SKED Series Premiere Review: “Rush”

  RUSH:  Thursday 9PM on USA – Change the Channel USA Network is aiming for “edgy” with its new Thursday line-up, and so the pilot for RUSH begins with its antihero Will Rush (Tom Ellis) doing coke.  Th...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Midseason Premiere

SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “The Real O’Neals”

  THE REAL O’NEALS:  Tuesday 8:30PM on ABC – Change the Channel Whatever its other ailments, over the past few years ABC has had an extraordinary run of diverse, smart family sitcoms,–an area where other...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Articles

THE SKED’S MONDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 5/13/13

  Everyone wanted to see the Mother. CBS:  The hugely-hyped season finale of HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER, which included the show’s biggest reveal, flew up 0.8 from last week to a 3.4. That was still below last seasonR...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Pilot Reports

SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “Outcast”

  OUTCAST:  Friday 10PM on Cinemax – If Nothing Else Is On… The surprise is that it took Cinemax so long to enter the world of TV horror.  With the notable exception of The Knick (and somewhat less notably, t...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Articles

Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 11.27.2022

  OPENINGS:  STRANGE WORLD (Disney) couldn’t muster any significant family audience over the Thanksgiving holiday, with $18.6M for the full 5 days and $11.9M for the 3-day weekend.  Nor did it have appeal overseas,...
by Mitch Salem
 
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