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PREMIERING TONIGHT – THE SKED’S FALL PILOT REPORT: FOX’s “The Mindy Project”

    THE MINDY PROJECT: Tuesday 9:30PM on FOX – DVR Alert Companion shows don’t come more perfectly designed than FOX’s THE MINDY PROJECT.  When FOX launched New Girl last fall, it became an instant ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Pilot Reports

PREMIERING TONIGHT–THE SKED’S FALL PILOT REPORT: FOX’s “Ben & Kate”

  BEN & KATE:  Tuesday 8:30PM on FOX – Worth A Look   However it may fare in the ratings, this fall’s FOX Tuesday schedule is a model lesson in what a smoothly engineered line-up looks like.  At 9:30...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Reviews

THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “2 Broke Girls”

  2 BROKE GIRLS:  Monday 9PM on CBS WHERE WE WERE:  At a Brooklyn diner, where Max (Kat Dennings) is a loudmouth waitress from the streets, and Caroline (Beth Behrs) is a former Manhattan socialite, down on her luck sinc...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Pilot + 1

THE SKED’S PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “The Mob Doctor”

A lot can happen between the creation of a TV pilot in the spring and the production of episodes for the regular season: a writing/producing team is hired, audience focus groups weigh in, networks and studios (which may have ha...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Articles

THE SKED’S NIELSENWAR CHRONICLES: Mondays

  As The Joker would say:  Here… We… Go. After weeks of semi-starts and special “previews” of new shows racking up big numbers against minimal competition, the real 2012-13 TV season gets underway ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Articles

THE SKED’S SUNDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 9/23/12

Because primetime football affected 3 of the networks, last night’s numbers are still something of a mess, but this much is clear–the Emmys were down. ABC:  The EMMY AWARDS fell 10% from last year to 3.8, and specu...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Pilot Reports

PREMIERING TONIGHT: THE SKED’S FALL PILOT REPORT: CBS’s “Partners”

  PARTNERS: Monday 8:30PM on CBS – Worth A Look It’s impossible not to compare the new fall comedies PARTNERS on CBS and The New Normal on NBC.  Even though the CBS show is multi-camera and NBC’s is in s...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Reviews

THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Treme”

  TREME:  Sunday 10PM on HBO   WHERE WE WERE:  New Orleans, of course, and hip-deep in the lives of a dozen struggling, striving, stubborn, idiosyncratic natives and recent arrivals.  These include the feckless tro...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Articles

THE SKED’S EMMY AWARDS LIVE-BLOG

  Welcome to THE SKED’s live Emmy Awards blog (all times Pacific)… 5:03:  The Jimmy Kimmel getting punched sketch won’t displace anyone’s memories of Jimmy Fallon’s triumphant open a couple o...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY’S BEHIND THE WEEKEND BOXOFFICE – 9/23/12

  This weekend’s boxoffice wasn’t so much a case of multiple winners as none at all. OPENINGS:  The closest thing to a victor was END OF WATCH (Open Road), which did about what one might have expected with a p...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Articles

SHOWBUZZDAILY EARLY WEEKEND BOXOFFICE REPORT – 9/22/12

  This weekend’s boxoffice is something like a dead heat in a $5000 claiming race at a second-rate track.  According to preliminary numbers at Deadline, TROUBLE WITH THE CURVE (Warners), END OF WATCH (Open Road) and...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED REVIEW: SNL With Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  For an election season SNL, tonight’s episode was oddly lightweight–possibly because the show had exhausted its political material for the week in Thursday’s Update special.  Aside from Weekend Updat...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Current Release

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Perks of Being A Wallflower”

  THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER:  Worth A Ticket – The Serious Side of Being a Teen We certainly don’t lack for stories about high school in our popular culture.  The CW and ABCFamily networks are almost en...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Articles

SHOWBUZZDAILY’S BEHIND THE FRIDAY BOXOFFICE – 9/21/12

  Nearly identical opening numbers for 3 new movies mean different things. OPENINGS:  Thanks to its older audience, TROUBLE WITH THE CURVE (Warners) may end up winning the weekend, and certainly having the highest overall...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Reviews

THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Wilfred”

  After two seasons on the air, WILFRED remains the most confounding show on television–which presumably is just as its makers want it.  The season finale, written by the developer of the US version of the series, D...
by Mitch Salem
 
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