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THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Major Crimes”

  MAJOR CRIMES:  Monday 9PM on TNT MAJOR CRIMES, TNT’s spin-off of The Closer, will always have a weakness at its center, caused by the odd decision to build the show around the character of Sharon Raydor (Mary McDo...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED’S MONDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 6/10/13

  The Voice continued to shine as a lead-in. NBC:  Summer Mondays will belong to NBC as long as THE VOICE is holding down the night, with a 3.2 last night (subject to adjustment later today) that’s currently down 0....
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED’S PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “Mistresses”

  MISTRESSES:  Monday 10PM on ABC Previously… on MISTRESSES:  A group of friends are all enmeshed, one way or another, in wayward sex, including Savannah (Alyssa Milano), a lawyer who compensated for the woes of ha...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Pilot Reports

THE SKED SERIES PREMIERE REVIEW: “King & Maxwell”

  KING & MAXWELL:  Monday 10PM on TNT – Change the Channel Jon Tenney and Rebecca Romijn are an attractive, appealing pair of series leads, but they’re not enough to make the markedly sub-par new procedura...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED’S PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “The Fosters”

  THE FOSTERS:  Monday 9PM on ABCFamily Previously… on THE FOSTERS:  San Diego cop Stef (Teri Polo) and charter school assistant principal Lena (Sherri Saum) are a gay couple raising a blended family:  Stef’...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED: Preliminary Cable Ratings for “Game Of Thrones” and “Falling Skies”

  Remember all those people who said they’d never watch GAME OF THRONES or for that matter HBO again after the Red Wedding?  Well, they didn’t go anywhere.  Last night’s Season 3 finale had a viewership...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED’S SUNDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 6/9/13

  Basketball, as always, beat Broadway last night. ABC:  Per Mitch Metcalf:  we have adjusted the 4.6 fast national adult 18-49 rating for NBA FINALS GAME 2  to an estimated 5.4 rating.  However, the 5.4 would still b...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Game of Thrones”

  There are a multitude of serialized dramas on television these days, but none has fully embraced the form in the way that GAME OF THRONES does.  The other serials nearly always hedge their bets:  there’s a story...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Falling Skies”

  FALLING SKIES:  Sunday 10PM on TNT FALLING SKIES is, for TNT, the series Syfy needs and doesn’t seem to be able to pull off.  As futuristic adventure sagas go, there’s nothing innovative about it, or even s...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Army Wives”

  Even though nothing particularly thrilling happened on this seventh season of ARMY WIVES, it was a crucial season for Lifetime’s veteran drama.  The show completed the reboot it had begun in Season 6, and assuming...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED REVIEW: The 2013 Tony Awards

  Every year the Oscars flail around searching for a host, a theme, a tone–anything to make its annual 4 hours of primetime cohere instead of congeal–and every year THE TONY AWARDS make it look relatively easy....
by Mitch Salem
 
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BEHIND THE WEEKEND BOXOFFICE: 6/9/13

  OPENINGS:  Not to throw any cold water on the extremely impressive performance of THE PURGE (Universal), but it’s unlikely that the thriller will slip only 12% on Sunday, as Universal is forecasting, when the next...
by Mitch Salem
 
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BEHIND THE FRIDAY BOXOFFICE: 6/7/13

  OPENINGS:  THE PURGE (Universal) will be instantly profitable by the end of its high $30Ms weekend, and while a great deal of that is due to the $3M production budget, a US marketing spend of only $20M (less than half t...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Da Vinci’s Demons”

  Starz’s DA VINCI’S DEMONS was unsatisfactory in just about every respect, all the way through to tonight’s Season 1 finale, a cluster of cliffhangers that resolved almost nothing.  Watching the end of ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY FILM REVIEW: “The Purge”

  THE PURGE:  Watch It At Home – Dopey, Violent Allegory Nevertheless Packs a Punch THE PURGE is heavy-handed, borderline reprehensible nonsense–but that’s not to say it doesn’t work.  James DeMon...
by Mitch Salem
 
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