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UPDATED: THE SKED NETWORK/CABLE SCORECARD – 11/26/13

  AFTERNOON UPDATE:  No huge changes in final numbers, but a couple that are worth noting:  AGENTS OF SHIELD went up a further 0.1 to 2.6, which may ease some ABC and Disney minds over the holiday, and PERSON OF INTEREST gai...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Current Release

SHOWBUZZDAILY Film Review: “Oldboy”

  OLDBOY:  Watch It At Home – Spike Lee’s Graphic Remake Falls Flat In the course of his career, Spike Lee has made some violent movies, but he’s never gotten off on the bloodshed; he’s not a raptu...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED SUNDAY CABLE SCORECARD – 11/24/13

  AMC:  Although still massive, THE WALKING DEAD has been consistently falling, down another 0.3 this week to 5.7 (plus another 1.0 from the 11PM re-airing).  It’ll be interesting to see how the fall finale scores ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED NETWORK SCORECARD – 11/25/13

FOX has a Monday problem. FOX:  ALMOST HUMAN hit its lowest rating yet, down 0.4 from last week to 1.9 (now lower than Bones had been in that slot), but the bigger issue is that it seems to be hurting SLEEPY HOLLOW, which fell...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Midseason Finale

THE SKED Midseason Finale Review: “Beauty & the Beast”

  New showrunner Brad Kern (working with series creators Sherri Cooper and Jennifer Levin) has made plenty of changes to BEAUTY & THE BEAST, but mostly they haven’t been improvements.  The gothic romanticism of ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Midseason Finale

THE SKED Midseason Finale Review: “Hart of Dixie”

  The crises on HART OF DIXIE, perhaps the most amiable hour on network television, tend to be fairly low-intensity, and tonight’s midseason finale–a Hanukkah episode, of all things, not something you often see...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Midseason Premiere

THE SKED Midseason Premiere Review: “Major Crimes”

  MAJOR CRIMES:  Monday 9PM on TNT MAJOR CRIMES isn’t the kind of series to go for “game-changing” alterations, so the back half (actually 8 episodes) of its second season, which resumed tonight after a ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Nielsenwar

NIELSENWAR: Welcome To The Break

  NOTE: Season To Date and Weekly Network Ratings Charts Are Below Tonight is the last Monday of November sweeps, and with some variation (most notably because of baseball on FOX), most network series have been airing new...
by Mitch Salem
 
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WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Not So Fast, “Catching Fire”

  Yesterday’s studio estimate for THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE (Lionsgate) seemed high, with a Sunday drop predicted to be by far the lowest in the Top 10, so it’s not much of a surprise to see the weekend n...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED NETWORK SCORECARD – 11/24/13

  Live events remain one of the last bastions of network TV. ABC:  Despite facing a monster football game, the AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS were up a full 1.1 over last year’s edition to 4.5, towering over the numbers ABC has ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Reviews

THE SKED Season Finale Review: “Boardwalk Empire”

  It’s a continuing paradox that a show could have as many colorful characters, so terrific a cast, as much plot and incident and history (not to mention sex and violence) and visual style as BOARDWALK EMPIRE does an...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Reviews

THE SKED Series Premiere Review: “Getting On”

  GETTING ON:  Sunday 10PM on HBO – Worth A Look It’s probably safe to assume that when a network launches a short run of a new series to air only during the holiday season, and that show isn’t at all ho...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Reviews

THE SKED Series Premiere Review: “Ja’mie: Private School Girl”

  JA’MIE: PRIVATE SCHOOL GIRL:  Sunday 10:30PM on HBO – Change the Channel JA’MIE: PRIVATE SCHOOL GIRL belongs to that particular British Empire school of comedy in which the central joke is that a femal...
by Mitch Salem
 
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BEHIND THE WEEKEND BOX OFFICE – 11/24/13

  OPENINGS:  We noted here yesterday that if THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE (Lionsgate) could just hold on as well on its first Saturday as The Hunger Games had, a $160M weekend was within its grasp.  That’s exact...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Other

THE SKED REVIEW: SNL with Josh Hutcherson

  It’s too easy to play the Hunger Games/”from hunger” card, so let’s just say that with one endearingly goofy exception, host Josh Hutcherson was barely even a presence on one of the weaker SATURDA...
by Mitch Salem
 
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