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THE SKED NETWORK SCORECARD – 4/16/14

  A deadly night of reruns for the most part. CBS:  The highest rated show of the night was SURVIVOR, and even it was down 0.2 from last week to 2.2.  It was followed by reruns of CRIMINAL MINDS (1.4) and CSI (1.2). FOX:  T...
by Mitch Salem
 
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WEDNESDAY BOX OFFICE: “Heaven Is For Real’ Is For Real

  The hunger for religious-themed movies hasn’t been dissipated at all by the recent Son of God, God’s Not Dead and Noah, as HEAVEN IS FOR REAL (TriStar/Sony) had a very healthy $3.7M start on Wednesday at 2417...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED Season Finale Review: “Community”

  You couldn’t tell it from the ratings, which were if anything more dismal than ever, or from tonight’s somewhat disappointing season finale, but the return of Founding Genius Dan Harmon rejuvenated COMMUNITY&...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED Season Finale Review: “The Crazy Ones”

  THE CRAZY ONES was conspicuously missing from CBS’s long list of early 2014-15 series renewals, and of course it’s faint praise to say that the show isn’t as bad as that sounds.  It’s the case, t...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED Season Finale Review: “Parenthood”

  PARENTHOOD doesn’t have the luxury that higher-rated long-running shows do of deciding its own fate, so tonight’s season finale, written by series creator Jason Katims and directed by Lawrence Trilling, could...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED Season Finale Review: “Scandal”

  There was a scene in tonight’s Season 3 finale of SCANDAL where Olivia Pope (Kerry Washington) and Cyrus Beene (Jeff Perry) sat together after a shocking death and, in a manner that was remarkably low-key for this ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED NETWORK SCORECARD – 4/17/14

  Some shows said farewell to their seasons more effectively than others. ABC:  SCANDAL had its biggest season finale to date, up 0.4 from last week to 3.4 and (with Big Bang Theory in reruns) easily the highest-rated sho...
by Mitch Salem
 
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EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “Heaven Is For Real” Transcends “Transcendence”

  In an appropriately biblical development for this Easter weekend, it appears from preliminary numbers at Deadline that David will defeat Goliath, and the $12M-budgeted HEAVEN IS FOR REAL (TriStar/Sony) will handily outgr...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Behind the Friday Box Office: 4/18/14

  Seasonal Note:  Good Friday is traditionally a strong day for moviegoing, which explains the generally solid Friday-to-Friday holds below.  Easter Sunday, though, is less of a movie day, potentially bringing down weeke...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED Season Premiere Review: “Orphan Black”

  ORPHAN BLACK:  Saturday 9PM on BBCAmerica In an era of non-stop TV drama overhype, last season’s arrival of ORPHAN BLACK was that extreme rarity:  the real thing.  Even its network didn’t seem to know init...
by Mitch Salem
 
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EARLY WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: “Captain America” Still On Top

  Despite the arrivals of a quartet of newcomers, CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER (Disney/Marvel) appears in the preliminary numbers at Deadline to be having no trouble keeping its lead for a third consecutive weekend....
by Mitch Salem
 
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Behind the Weekend Box Office – 4/20/14

  OPENINGS:  THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 (Sony) won’t arrive in the US for almost 2 weeks, and so far it’s in only 14 international markets–and it was still the biggest story of the weekend, pulling in $47M...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED Series Premiere Review: “Salem”

  SALEM:  Sunday 10PM on WGN America – If Nothing Else Is On… There’s more than vanity to the desire of just about every cable network to have at least one original scripted series (although that’s...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED Season Premiere Review: “Devious Maids”

  DEVIOUS MAIDS:  Sunday 10PM on Lifetime The comic soap DEVIOUS MAIDS, based on a Mexican telenovela, overcame a slow start to become a solid performer for Lifetime last season, rising 50% in total viewers between its pr...
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NIELSENWAR: Weekly/Season Charts Plus Early Weekend Cable News

  CBS had been riding high on the back of some special events like the NCAA Tournament and the How I Met Your Mother finale, but last week it crashed to earth, falling three-quarters of a ratings point from the previous we...
by Mitch Salem
 
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