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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...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Pilot Reports

SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “City On A Hill”

  CITY ON A HILL – Sunday 9PM on Showtime Showtime’s new CITY ON A HILL wears so many influences on its sleeve that there’s hardly any garment to be seen.  The show hails from Executive Producers Matt Da...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED’S Pre-Upfront Projected FOX Fall Schedule

  See Also:  THE SKED’s Pre-Upfront Projected NBC Fall 2013 Schedule We’re continuing with SHOWBUZZDAILY‘s versions of the Fall 2013 network schedules, which may or may not reflect what the networks will...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED: “House of Lies” Off (Truthfully) To Good Start

> Showtime had a very solid premiere Sunday for its winter series.  The night was highlighted by a fine debut for HOUSE OF LIES, the Don Cheadle management consultant comedy, which had over 1.03 million viewers in its init...
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EARLY WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: “The Heat” Behind “Monsters U” But Way Ahead of “White House Down”

  Based on preliminary numbers at Deadline (which, it should be noted, were fairly overoptimistic last night), Saturday’s results were in line with Friday’s lead.  MONSTERS UNIVERSITY (Disney/Pixar) will easil...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED: Sunday’s Showtime, HBO Premiere Ratings

  Despite strong competition in every direction on Sunday night, Showtime had a very strong start for its winter line-up, setting new records for SHAMELESS, HOUSE OF LIES and CALIFORNICATION.  Demo numbers aren’t ye...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Current Release

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Odd Life of Timothy Green”

  THE ODD LIFE OF TIMOTHY GREEN:  Not At Any Price – Should Have Been Pruned   When Disney decided to make THE ODD LIFE OF TIMOTHY GREEN, it probably shouldn’t have put the word “odd” in the t...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Pilot Reports

THE SKED Series Premiere Review: “Chicago PD”

  CHICAGO PD:  Wednesday 10PM on NBC – If Nothing Else Is On… This season, NBC went retro in a big way with its new series, from its Don’t you still love Michael J. Fox and Sean Hayes? comedies to its Do...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Reviews

THE SKED MIDSEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Scandal”

  SCANDAL has been having a barn-burner of a Season 2, emerging as a pulpier, crazier Homeland (not that Homeland hasn’t been pretty crazy the last couple of weeks), a DC-set melodrama where everybody is lying to som...
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Film Festival

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “22 July” & “American Woman”

  22 JULY (Netflix – October 10):  So many terrible things have happened in the world since July 22, 2011 that at least in the US, few even remember the horrific events that occurred in Oslo, Norway that day, when a...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Boxoffice

Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 12.8.2024

  OPENINGS:  The first weekend of December brought the usual assortment of indies seeking a toehold before the holiday giants arrive, although this year was unusual in being dominated by Thanksgiving blockbusters, which g...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Articles

Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 7/26/15

  OPENINGS:  PIXELS (Columbia/Sony) isn’t the first Adam Sandler movie to approach a $90M production budget–incredibly, the first Grown Ups reportedly cost that much–but as his audience shrinks, it becom...
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Articles

THE SKED: FOX Midseason

> FOX has announced the specifics of its midseason schedule, with no surprises (you don’t need surprises when you’re cruising in 1st place, with your unstoppable biggest gun on the way).  Below are the shows an...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Articles

THE BIJOU BOXOFFICE: Hurricane Edition – UPDATED

> UPDATE:  The Reporter has some early Friday numbers, and the storm’s effect can already be seen at the boxoffice.  THE HELP seems likely to win the weekend as expected, but with a lower-than anticipated $12-13...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Reviews

THE SKED Season Premiere Review: “The Fosters”

  THE FOSTERS:  Monday 9PM on ABCFamily THE FOSTERS ended its first season on a near tidal wave of melodrama, and along the way it lost a great deal of the modest charm and believable emotions that had made it work in the...
by Mitch Salem
 
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