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BEHIND THE WEEKEND BOXOFFICE – 3/10/13

  OPENINGS:  OZ THE GREAT AND POWERFUL (Disney) is having an oddly topsy-turvy weekend.  On the one hand, in the US it got the Saturday bump it needed from family audiences, rising 37% (better than Alice in Wonderland, a...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED REVIEW: SNL with Justin Timberlake

  If The Avengers were an episode of SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, it might be something like the first hour of tonight’s show, a veritable all-star brigade of special guests and beloved characters presented for the celebrato...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED’S PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “Vikings”

  THE VIKINGS:  Sunday 10PM on History Channel Previously… on VIKINGS:  Back around the 8th Century AD, Ragnar Lothbrok (Travis Fimmel) is the one Viking visionary enough to believe that there are lands to the west...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED @ PALEYFEST 2013: “Nashville”

  Whether because of deliberate stonewalling by NASHVILLE producers and cast, or because, as series creator Callie Khouri suggested, the scripts are so far behind that they don’t know themselves how the season will e...
by Mitch Salem
 
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BEHIND THE FRIDAY BOXOFFICE – 3/8/13

  OPENINGS:  There was more loose change behind the Friday cushions for OZ THE GREAT AND POWERFUL (Disney) than the early estimate had found, and at $24.1M, it seems likely to reach at least $70M for the weekend, sparing ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED’S FRIDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 3/8/13

Golden Boy may not even be brass. CBS:  It’s hard to tell at this point if the awful 1.0 for GOLDEN BOY was a true sign of disaster or merely viewer conclusion about the show airing once on Friday and then going back to ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED MIDSEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Grimm”

  GRIMM:  Fridays 9PM on NBC NBC took a risk in placing GRIMM, one of its few successful shows, onto its microscopic bench for months of midseason hiatus, but at least it broke off with a solid cliffhanger.  Without over...
by Mitch Salem
 
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EARLY FRIDAY BOXOFFICE: “Oz” Not So Great and Powerful

  Is OZ THE GREAT AND POWERFUL (Disney) more like Alice in Wonderland or like The Lorax?  We won’t know for another 24 hours or so, and that’s going to be the difference between Oz living up to its potential o...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED @ PALEYFEST 2013: “The Mindy Project”

  Creator/star Mindy Paling and the rest of the gang from THE MINDY PROJECT had cause to be of good cheer at tonight’s PaleyFest panel, having learned this week that their series, despite middling ratings, has been r...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THURSDAY NIGHT BOXOFFICE: “Oz” Gets Its First Yellow Bricks

  Reading fragmentary Thursday night tea leaves to predict weekend boxoffice is a dicey business, particularly because in our post-Aurora era, those numbers now include showings as early as 9PM in addition to the once-trad...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Dead Man Down”

  DEAD MAN DOWN:  Watch It At Home – Effectively Moody Tale of Revenge Until its final reel, when it arrives pretty much where you thought it was going to go from the very start, and in a way even dumber than you ex...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED: A CBS Shuffle

  CBS has reversed its previous strategy of launching GOLDEN BOY with two Tuesday airings and then moving it to the Friday 9PM slot.  Instead, the show will remain on Tuesdays, with that night’s VEGAS shifting to Fr...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Oz the Great and Powerful”

  OZ THE GREAT AND POWERFUL:  Watch It At Home – Not All Yellow Brick Roads Are Golden The digital landscapes in Sam Raimi’s prequel OZ THE GREAT AND POWERFUL are gorgeous:  eye-poppingly colorful, and cramme...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED’S TUESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 3/5/13

Just a dismal night, even for the winners. FOX:  A special 2-hour AMERICAN IDOL (live, except on the west coast) won the night with a 3.4, but according to CBS, during the 8PM hour it was actually at 3.3 (climbing in Hour 2), ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “White Collar”

  The curtain rang down on the 4th season of WHITE COLLAR tonight, an unusually labored one.  The show still has a fair amount of style and charm, but it’s starting to feel as shackled as Neal Caffrey’s ankle ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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