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THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Hart of Dixie”

  Sometimes shows overthink their season finales, and that may have been the case with tonight’s HART OF DIXIE.  The show has gotten along quite well all season in its native Bluebell, Alabama, but for the finale se...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED’S Friday-Monday Cable Scorecard – 5/3-6/13

  FRIDAY STARZ:  DA VINCI’S DEMONS stayed at an 0.2 rating in the 18-49 demo, and had a very slight increase among older viewers to give it 420K.  With such a serialized storyline, it seems unlikely to move much hi...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED’S Pre-Upfront Projected CBS Fall Schedule

  See Also:  THE SKED’s Pre-Upfront Projected NBC Fall 2013 Schedule                  THE SKED’s Pre-Upfront Projected FOX Fall 2013 Schedule                  THE SKED’s Pr...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED’S MONDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 5/6/13

  A bit of a bump for Revolution, but not much more good news for the networks last night. CBS:  The upcoming season finale for HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER seems to be exciting no one, as the show hit a season low 2.6, while RU...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED’S Pre-Upfront Projected ABC Fall Schedule

  See Also:  THE SKED’s Pre-Upfront Projected NBC Fall 2013 Schedule                  THE SKED’s Pre-Upfront Projected FOX Fall 2013 Schedule We’re continuing with SHOWBUZZDAILY‘s v...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED’S SUNDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 5/5/13

  A NASCAR overrun may have been the highest-rated show of the night. ABC:  ONCE UPON A TIME rose 0.2 from last week to 2.2, but it’s still hovering half a point below its season average.  REVENGE edged up 0.1 to 1...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Red Widow”

  RED WIDOW spent its season about two inches away from being a really enjoyable dark farce.  All the ingredients were there:  plotting that had a vague, circular logic but was basically nonsensical, and a cast of moroni...
by Mitch Salem
 
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BEHIND THE WEEKEND BOXOFFICE – 5/5/13

  OPENINGS:  Here’s the really remarkable thing about this weekend’s haul for IRON MAN 3 (Disney).  It’s not the $175.3M opening in the US, even though that’s the 2d highest start in US history...
by Mitch Salem
 
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EARLY “IRON MAN 3” WEEKEND BOXOFFICE – 5/4/13

  Preliminary numbers at Deadline have IRON MAN 3 (Disney) dropping just 6% on Saturday to $64M.  If that number holds, it’s quite a good hold for a blockbuster of this magnitude–in comparison, The Avengers f...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED REVIEW: SNL With Zach Galifianakis

  There was an inspired, unexpected piece of comedy toward the end of tonight’s SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, although it was pretty lonely in the mostly bland context of the rest of the episode.  Early in the post-Update ha...
by Mitch Salem
 
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BEHIND THE FRIDAY BOXOFFICE – 5/3/13

  OPENINGS:  IRON MAN 3 (Disney) was exactly where it was expected to be, its $68.3M US opening day (the 8th largest ever) considerably higher than Iron Man 2‘s $51.2M, but not quite in a league with The Avengers...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED’S FRIDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 5/3/13

  The absence of Grimm didn’t help its competition. ABC:  The network swan song of HAPPY ENDINGS was technically up, but when you’re comparing 0.8/0.7 to 0.6/0.6, it doesn’t matter much.  SHARK TANK wa...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED SERIES PREMIERE REVIEW: “Maron”

  MARON:  Friday 10PM on IFC – If Nothing Else Is On… Everyone wants their Louie.  TV comedies built around fictional versions of real-life comics are nothing new–they go back to the days of Jack Benny ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Happy Endings”

  Here lies HAPPY ENDINGS, one of the funniest comedies on all of television–foully murdered by some of the worst scheduling moves in recent network memory.  ABC began the season by sending the show (along with Don&...
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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