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THE SKED: The Emmy Awards

  Television as a medium seems to become more exciting and surprising practically every week these days, but one thing remains the same:  The EMMY AWARDS is still the weak, erratic sibling of the other major awards shows,...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Nashville”

  NASHVILLE doesn’t make more than a gesture these days toward having very much to say about the music industry, or the place of country music in American culture.  It’s simply a soap, and often an effective o...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Film Festival

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE 2013: “Emanuel & The Truth About Fishes”

  EMANUEL AND THE TRUTH ABOUT FISHES is deeply, satisfyingly strange.  In a way, it’s a validation not just of Sundance, but the whole film festival system that is now our main way of finding out about distinctive ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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The Sked: PROMO WATCH — through Wednesday October 26

>Grimm is now up to 240 promo seconds over the last week, and the return of Chuck has worked its way up to 75 seconds.  Now, NBC has to hold its breath that Texas wins tonight and ends the World Series.  Otherwise, th...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Pilot + 1

SHOWBUZZDAILY Pilot + 1 Review: “Empire”

  EMPIRE:  Wednesday 9PM on FOX Previously… on EMPIRE:  As he prepares to launch his hip-hop entertainment conglomerate into an even higher financial sphere via an IPO, mogul Lucious Lyon (Terrence Howard) learns t...
by Mitch Salem
 
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HOLIDAY WEEKEND MOVIE REVIEW ROUNDUP

> For everyone journeying to the multiplex this long weekend, some reviews to click on: THE TREE OF LIFE:  An often stupendous achievement that courts ridicule–and sometimes earns it. THE HANGOVER PART II:  It w...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Midseason Premiere

THE SKED Series Premiere Review: “24: Live Another Day”

  24: LIVE ANOTHER DAY:  Monday 9PM on FOX – DVR Alert Jack Bauer didn’t speak until 40 minutes into the first hour of tonight’s 24: LIVE ANOTHER DAY premiere.  It’s not that he wasn’t aroun...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Pilot Reports

SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “The Kids are Alright”

  THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT:  Tuesday 8:30PM on ABC THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT is ABC’s 9th family sitcom currently on the air (10th if you count the quasi-family of Single Parents), which puts it in a meta position not unlike...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY MONDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 10.17.2016

  THE ODD COUPLE returned to be CBS’s Monday weak link. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary key advertiser demographics (adult 18-34, 18-49 and 25-5...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE BIJOU REVIEW: “The Twilight Saga – Breaking Dawn Part 1”





Our Review / 5 - Terrible
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EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “Hail, Caesar!” Mild, Jane Austen “Zombies” and “Choice” Crash On Un-Super Weekend

  The occasional piece of youth-oriented counterprogramming aside, the studios don’t bring out their big guns for Super Bowl Weekend, since Sunday is destined to be deflated.  Even by those standards, though, this i...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Wednesday 7.27.2022 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  Reruns at 0.27/0.20/0.16/0.12/0.24 CBS:  BIG BROTHER gained 0.05 to 0.75, and THE CHALLENGE was up 0.02 to 0.42.  A SWAT rerun followed at 0.17. NBC:  Reruns at 0.24/0.25/0.28. FOX:  MASTERCHE...
by Mitch Salem
 
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EMMY NOMINATIONS: Instant Analysis

  The EMMY AWARDS may never have the sheer glamor of the Oscars, but as the amount of excellent TV keeps rising as new viewing platforms and content providers constantly emerge, it’s now a lot harder to get a nominat...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED’S THURSDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 4/18/13

  Hannibal‘s appetite wasn’t as strong last night. FOX:  After a slight surge last week, AMERICAN IDOL was back down to 2.9, a 0.3 drop and just slightly above its series low.  (And to add insult to injury, i...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Reviews

THE SKED Series Finale Review: “Revolution”

  REVOLUTION was sort of a sad story.  The lights-are-out sci-fi adventure was NBC’s top priority in Fall 2012, promoted like crazy and given the network’s prized post-The Voice timeslot.  At first the show l...
by Mitch Salem
 
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