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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “New Year’s Eve”

  NEW YEAR’S EVE:  Not At Any Price – Calling it a “Sit-Com” Insults TV   NEW YEAR’S EVE is such a calculated piece of commercial manufacture that it deserves a Powerpoint presentation m...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Pilot Reports

PREMIERING TONIGHT – THE SKED PILOT REPORT: NBC’s “Chicago Fire”

  CHICAGO FIRE: Wednesday 10PM on NBC – Change the Channel Network television doesn’t come more dully generic than NBC’s “new” CHICAGO FIRE, a series that seems to be assembling itself out of ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: SNL with Ben Affleck

  In contrast to last week’s Kristin Wiig-fest, tonight’s season finale of SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE didn’t give victory laps to all the franchise characters Bill Hader and Fred Armisen have contributed to the ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY MONDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 6.12.2017

  The NBA ended its season in a big way. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary key advertiser demographics (adult 18-34, 18-49 and 25-54 ratings), audience ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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ShowbuzzDaily Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “Blindspotting” & “Monsters and Men”

  BLINDSPOTTING (no distrib):  At Sundance, often one doesn’t seek perfection so much as promise, and there’s plenty of the latter in Blindspotting, written by its stars Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal.  They h...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED: “Walking Dead” Devours More Ratings Records

> This morning we anticipated that the season finale of THE WALKING DEAD on AMC would outrate anything on network television last night, but that didn’t do justice to Dead‘s accomplishment.  In the finale’...
by Mitch Salem
 
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UPDATED: THE SKED CABLE/NETWORK SUNDAY SCORECARD – 5/25/14

  NETWORK UPDATE:  The only change from preliminary numbers was a 0.1 gain for the NASCAR race on FOX. SATURDAY CABLE:  On BBC America, ORPHAN BLACK was up very slightly to 0.25, with follow-up IN THE FLESH barely regist...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “The Client List”

  THE CLIENT LIST:  Sunday 10PM on Lifetime No one would include Lifetime’s THE CLIENT LIST on a short (or for that matter, lengthy) list of the highlights of our current remarkable era of cable television drama.  ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY TUESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 4.17.2018

  Even ROSEANNE couldn’t do much for ALEX INC. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary key advertiser demographics (adult 18-34, 18-49 and 25-54 ratings...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Monday 6.19.2023 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  Reruns at 0.37/0.19/0.13 were followed by a SOUL OF THE NATION special at 0.13. CBS:  Reruns at 0.21/0.21/0.22. NBC:  AMERICAN NINJA WARRIOR edged up 0.02 to 0.34, THE WALL was at 0.38, and WEAK...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED 2013 UPFRONTS: One More CBS Pick-Up

  The booze had been drunk, the party rooms cleaned up, everyone had gone home from last week’s network Upfront presentations–but CBS wasn’t quite done.  After what must have been marathon negotiations w...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED: FOX

> THOUGHTS ON THE FOX SCHEDULE (AND OUR PREDICTIONS) FOX COMEDIES FOX DRAMAS ABC ANALYSIS     CBS ANALYSIS     NBC ANALYSIS     FOX ANALYSIS     CW ANALYSIS
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED REVIEW: SNL With Louis C.K.

  Add to Louis C.K.’s remarkable list of recent achievements the ability to intermittently brighten up a routine episode of SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE. They weren’t all gems, but a couple of tonight’s sketches w...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY THURSDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 6.8.2017

  Only 2 networks aired original programming. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary key advertiser demographics (adult 18-34, 18-49 and 25-54 ratings), audi...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Three Musketeers”

    THE THREE MUSKETEERS:  Not At Any Price – All For None and None For All   If the last couple of Pirates of the Caribbean movies and the current Sherlock Holmes franchise had a really nasty, dirty weeke...
by Mitch Salem
 
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