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THE SKED’S THURSDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 1/17/13

CBS does FOX a favor. FOX:  With CBS in reruns last night, AMERICAN IDOL didn’t have to face fresh episodes of Big Bang Theory or 2 1/2 Men.  That allowed Idol to tie last year’s 5.6 Thursday premiere (which had t...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Saturday 4.15.2023 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED

  BROADCAST FINALS:  ABC’s NBA PLAYOFFS game was at 1.83.  FOX’s USFL game was at 0.16.  On CW, MASTERS OF ILLUSION gained 0.02 to 0.06, and TOTALLY WEIRD & FUNNY was at 0.06 compared to last week’...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Current Release

SHOWBUZZDAILY FILM REVIEW: “The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones”

  THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS: CITY OF BONES –  Not Even For Free –  An Incoherent Compendium of YA Tropes THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS: CITY OF BONES isn’t so much a movie as it is a mash-up.  They’re all ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED: FOX Midseason/Postseason Debuts

  The Television Critics Association marathon goes on in Pasadena, and today is FOX’s turn.  Network President Kevin Reilly claimed–and he’s far from the first–that “pilot season is dead,R...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED’S WEDNESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 4/24/13

  The night before Sweeps was a dim one. FOX:  AMERICAN IDOL lost 0.2, for a 3.2 that was 0.1 above its series low and just half a point above Survivor. ABC:  HOW TO LIVE WITH YOUR PARENTS (FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE) sur...
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THE SKED’S SUNDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 4/8/12

> GCB can’t capitalize on a lack of competition. ABC: GCB was virtually the only original scripted show to air in network primetime last night, and ABC chose the evening as the show’s opportunity to show what it cou...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Reviews

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “The Originals”

  THE ORIGINALS:  Monday 8PM on CW THE ORIGINALS, that gloomier and more gothic cousin of The Vampire Diaries, essentially revolves around an endless turf war, the territory at issue being New Orleans.  (The show itself ...
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THE SKED Season Premiere Review: “Veep”

  VEEP:  Sunday 10:30PM on HBO VEEP, television’s most scintillatingly vicious comedy, returned with a relatively mild Season 3 premiere by its standards.  Largely that was because the script, written by Supervisin...
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Midseason Premiere

THE SKED Season Premiere Review: “Suburgatory”

  SUBURGATORY:  Wednesday 8:30PM on ABC For a comedy that seemed to have a strong sense of itself on its debut, SUBURGATORY suffered from a surprisingly rocky case of the Terrible Twos.  Creatively, the second season of ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Monte Carlo”

  MONTE CARLO:  Watch It At Home – The Usual Tourist Stops   Beware the credit “Screen Story by.”  It means that whatever the original source material for a movie may have been, it’s essentia...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Pilot + 1

SHOWBUZZDAILY Pilot + 1 Review: “Fear the Walking Dead”

  FEAR THE WALKING DEAD:  Sunday 6PM on AMC   Previously… on FEAR THE WALKING DEAD:  Something odd is happening in Los Angeles, years before and a continent away from Rick Grimes and his troupe of survivors. ...
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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 4.7.2019

  OPENINGS:  At $53.5M, SHAZAM (DC/New Line/Warners) had the lowest opening weekend of the current DC run of superhero movies (it was also below all the Marvel openings), but it was produced to be a lower-budget companio...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Pilot Reports

THE SKED SERIES PREMIERE REVIEW: “Camp”

  CAMP:  Wednesday 10PM on NBC – If Nothing Else Is On… If drive-in theaters hadn’t been superseded by multiplexes, NBC’s new CAMP would be the TV equivalent of a drive-in movie, a throwback to B-m...
by Mitch Salem
 
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UPDATED: THE SKED CABLE/NETWORK SCORECARD – 3/18/14

  AFTERNOON UPDATE:  An assortment of small adjustments.  On ABC, the MARVEL: ASSEMBLING THE UNIVERSE special and THE GOLDBERGS both gained 0.1, while on NBC, THE VOICE (which usually runs until 9:01PM) was up 0.1 while ABOU...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY TUESDAY “HUNGER GAMES” WATCH

> THE HUNGER GAMES held fairly well on its first Tuesday, dropping around 4% to $10.3M.  This isn’t quite as good as it sounds, because Tuesday is generally an up day (except where Monday is part of a holiday weekend...
by Mitch Salem
 
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