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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Finding Carter”

  FINDING CARTER was the surprise of the summer TV season,.  Hailing from the wilds of MTV, a network rarely known for its dramatic chops, the series, created by Emily Silver and show-run by Terri Minsky, has told a compe...
by Mitch Salem
 
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EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: More Duds Than Sparklers As “Transformers” Dominates July 4th

  As holidays go, the 4th of July isn’t a bright one for moviegoing, and when it falls on a Friday, the result is a weekend no better than usual (the days before and after compensate for the holiday itself).  That h...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED: Judgment Day For Fall Series

  If you’re a fall series that hasn’t heard any news of your fate by Thanksgiving, the omens aren’t good–at that point, production of the initial 13 episodes is all but done, and for reasons of cost...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Current Release

SHOWBUZZDAILY FILM REVIEW: “Winter’s Tale”

  WINTER’S TALE:  Not Even For Free – 2 Hours of Thin Tinsel The new movie WINTER’S TALE makes one ponder the phrase “labor of love.”  It marks the feature directing debut of the enormously ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED’S THURSDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 1/12/12

> Lots of news, but it’s only good for one network. CBS:  Keeping in mind that the Thursday 8-9PM landscape will change drastically next week with the return of American Idol, CBS got everything it could have wished ...
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Midseason Pilots

THE SKED Pilot Review: “Killer Women”

  KILLER WOMEN:  Tuesday 10PM on ABC – Worth A Look KILLER WOMEN can’t keep up the pace of its Kill Bill-inflected opening, but it’s a fun ride nonetheless.  The premise, adapted from an Argentine forma...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Fall Pilots

THE SKED Series Premiere Review: “Dracula”

  DRACULA:  Friday 10PM on NBC – If Nothing Else Is On… A century of vampire movies and TV shows has taught us that undead is by no means the same as lifeless, but NBC’s new excavation of DRACULA doesn&#...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED: Fri-Mon Cable Ratings Scorecard – 7/26-7/29

  FRIDAY STARZ:  The pay-TV network had plenty of announcements at its TCA press tour session, including a renewal for its pirate series Black Sails before the show has even aired, but there wasn’t a word of comfort...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED: One More Dimension For “Fringe”

> FRINGE has discovered one last universe where it can air for a 5th and final season on FOX, and it’s widely rumored that the name of that universe is:  Low License Fee.  As it did with Chuck this season, Warne...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED WEDNESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 5/23/12

    Say goodnight, broadcast season.   FOX:  AMERICAN IDOL‘s season finale did what the show’s done all season:  win the night convincingly, but at a significantly lower level than it’s ever b...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Archive

THE BIJOU @ TIFF: “Drive”

> DRIVE is a self-conscious genre movie, and those are tricky propositions.  On the one hand, you need to make your existential or other textual statement with all the artistry at your command; on the other, you still have...
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WEDNESDAY BOX OFFICE: “Mortal Instruments” Very Mortal Indeed

  Be sure to read Mitch Metcalf’s Weekend Box Office Predictions. Momentum was lacking for THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS: CITY OF BONES (Screen Gems/Sony), as the studio kept the movie from critics until the last possible i...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Midseason Premiere

SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “Shades of Blue”

  SHADES OF BLUE:  Thursday 10PM on NBC – If Nothing Else Is On… SHADES OF BLUE is the weak tea brewed by broadcast network executives who dream of airing something like The Shield.  Both shows center on corr...
by Mitch Salem
 
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UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Monday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 3.27.2017

          NETWORK FINALS:  There were quite a few 0.1 adjustments in final numbers:  up for THE GREAT INDOORS, THE VOICE and the BIG BANG THEORY rerun, down for QUANTICO, TAKEN, JANE THE VIRGIN and th...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED NETWORK SCORECARD – 12/19/13

  The X Factor ended its season with no miraculous ratings recovery. FOX:  Although THE X FACTOR‘s season finale was up 0.5 from last week to 1.7, that number was down a horrific 1.4 from last year’s finale, barel...
by Mitch Salem
 
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