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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Review: “Room”

  Despite its compact scale, Emma Donoghue’s bestselling novel ROOM was a daunting candidate for film adaptation, because so much of its impact depends on its very specific narrator’s voice, a 5-year old named ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED Season Finale Review: “House of Lies”

  In its third season, HOUSE OF LIES tried to have more substance than it did in previous years, and part of the time it worked.  The end of Season 2 had scattered the cast, with Marty Kaan (Don Cheadle) forming his own c...
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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Saturday 4.9.2022 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED

  BROADCAST FINALS:  ABC’s annual telecast of THE 10 COMMANDMENTS was at 0.33, down 0.14 from last year.  FOX’s MLS match was at 0.14.  CW premiered WOULD I LIE TO YOU at 0.09, and MASTERS OF ILLUSION at 0.0...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Billions”

  The lesson of the 2d season of Showtime’s BILLIONS is that a show doesn’t have to dramatically reboot itself in order to improve.  Billions Season 2 had the same premise and core characters as Season 1:  he...
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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Judy” & “Motherless Brooklyn”

  JUDY (Roadside – September 27):  Oscar bait in its fullest form, a showbiz celebrity biography built around the work of a performer making a comeback, requiring said performer to alter appearance and render servic...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED Pilot + 1 Review: “Outlander”

  OUTLANDER:  Saturday 9PM on Starz Previously… on OUTLANDER:  Claire Randall (Caltriona Balfe) is, shortly after the end of World War II, a former Army nurse vacationing in Scotland with her ex-Intelligence Office...
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The Sked: Sunday Ratings 4.3.2016

  Last Sunday’s excuse for low ratings was Easter; last night’s will preaumably be the WALKING DEAD season finale. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays pre...
by Mitch Salem
 
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EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: Hollywood Takes The Holiday Off

  Labor Day weekend is always the exhausted last gasp of the summer movie season, but this year the studios didn’t even try.  Partly it’s the effect of August having generally been a disaster in 2015 (last yea...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 8/3/14

  OPENINGS:  The world, if not the galaxy, belonged to GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (Marvel/Disney) this weekend.  In the US, its $94M start (as is typical, Disney estimated an aggressively strong Sunday, down just 19% from S...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED SERIES FINALE REVIEW: “In Plain Sight”

Although IN PLAIN SIGHT was never one of USA’s breakout hits or signature shows like Monk or Burn Notice, it gave the network 5 sturdy seasons, holding down slots on 3 different nights in the course of its run, and tonigh...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED’S STATE OF THE NETWORK: NBC

  NBC is having an abysmal season, and here’s the thing:  it’s actually worse than it looks.  How is that even possible? you ask.  Right now, Mitch Metcalf’s estimate is that by the end of the season, ...
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The Sked: PROMO WATCH — through Wednesday October 26

>Grimm is now up to 240 promo seconds over the last week, and the return of Chuck has worked its way up to 75 seconds.  Now, NBC has to hold its breath that Texas wins tonight and ends the World Series.  Otherwise, th...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED’S SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Louie”

  The limits of critical adoration are demonstrated by LOUIE.  Despite possibly terabytes of raves and features about Louis C.K.’s show in every corner of the media all season, the ratings, especially since Anger Ma...
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SHOWBUZZDAILY THURSDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 10.1.2015

  None of the returnees impressed in their season premieres. 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...
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SHOWBUZZDAILY SUNDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 4.15.2018

  Musical competition on CBS seemed to dent AMERICAN IDOL. 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 r...
by Mitch Salem
 
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