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Sundance 2013: The Announcements Begin

  Sundance, like most major film festivals, makes an extended process out of the unveiling of its yearly offerings, and today the festival announced its 2013 competition entries (fiction and documentary, US and foreign), a...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED’S SUNDAY CABLE SCORECARD – 11/25/12

  AMC:  With one week to go until its fall finale, THE WALKING DEAD was of course at the top of the night, with a combined 7.0 (up 0.3 from last week) for its two primetime airings.  As has become traditional, this was o...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED’S TUESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 11/27/12

A generally good week for network television rolls on. ABC:  The DANCING WITH THE STARS cycle finale was way up at 3.0 from where the show had been all fall (last week was a 2.0), but that was still more than a ratings point d...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED’S MONDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 11/26/12

On a generally up night, Revolution exited until March above its recent low. NBC:  REVOLUTION was up 0.3 to 2.9 from its series low number over the past 2 weeks, but there are a couple of asterisks.  First, the rating may be ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED FALL FINALE REVIEW: “Revolution”

  One of the many ways in which broadcast networks have started to resemble their cable counterparts is in the structure of a series season.  For years, cable has aired its shows, especially serialized series, in clearly-...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED: “Liz & Dick” Doesn’t Do…

  What’s worse than shamelessly airing a piece of calculated trash designed to exploit both past and present celebrities, all for the sake of ratings?  Not getting those ratings.  Last night’s LIZ & DICK ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED’S SUNDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 11/25/12

We don’t know yet how Lindsay & Dick did on Lifetime. ABC:  ONCE UPON A TIME rebounded to 3.0, up 0.3 from its last episode, which aired against an NFL overtime game (ABC’s primetime line-up was preempted last ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Treme”

  TREME thrives on its idiosyncracies–if “thrive” is the word for a show that hardly anyone watches–and one of those is its limited interest in engaging in a “season finale.”  Thus, ton...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED REVIEW: “Liz & Dick”

  Did anyone, anywhere, expect LIZ & DICK to be something other than junk?  Lifetime’s TV-movie, with its stunt casting of Lindsay Lohan as Elizabeth Taylor, was calibrated to get train-wreck eyeballs (it might ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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BEHIND THE WEEKEND BOXOFFICE – 11/25/12

  No great disconnects between Saturday’s estimates and Sunday’s, although one number needs some scrutiny. OPENINGS:  RISE OF THE GUARDIANS (DreamWorks Animation/Paramount) was at the top of the new arrivals, ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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BEHIND THE FRIDAY BOXOFFICE – 11/23/12

  Franchises and a former President may carry the weekend to record heights, but the newcomers stumbled. OPENINGS:  RISE OF THE GUARDIANS (DreamWorks Animation/Paramount) has the advantage of no new animated competition t...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED’S FRIDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 11/23/12

A low-rated night with little relevance to network regular schedules. ABC:  The only network to take a chance with regular scripted programming last night, airing new episodes of LAST MAN STANDING and MALIBU COUNTRY presumably...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED’S THANKSGIVING NETWORK SCORECARD – 11/22/12

Only one network aired its regular line-up on Thanksgiving night… and it probably should have thought twice. FOX:  The Washington/Dallas NFL game ran about 20 minutes into primetime, meaning that the network’s numb...
by Mitch Salem
 
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EARLY THANKSGIVING BOXOFFICE REPORT – 11/22/12

  According to preliminary numbers at Deadline, something unexpected happened on Thanksgiving Day:  two of the holiday weekend’s openings changed places in the boxoffice ranks. LIFE OF PI (20th), which had been cons...
by Mitch Salem
 
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UPDATED: PRE-THANKSGIVING BOXOFFICE REPORT – 11/21/12

  UPDATE:  More refined Wednesday numbers are in via The Hollywood Reporter, and the major difference from the numbers below was for SILVER LININGS NOTEBOOK, which made $656K rather than $550K. still off the pace of last ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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