THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Raven”
THE RAVEN: Watch It At Home – Not Much Tell-Tale Heart (Or Brain) Sometimes less-than-great minds think alike, too. The idea of Edgar Allen Poe as a detective investigating strange phenomen...
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...
The Sked: PROMO WATCH
>The most recent Promo Watch numbers are based on prime time broadcast network programming between April 18 and April 24, with about 8 hours of programming sampled for each network over that period. (Click “read mor...
THE SKED’S WEDNESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 4/25/12
> The last dull night of network TV for 4 weeks. ABC: With MODERN FAMILY airing a repeat (as well as THE MIDDLE and SUBURGATORY), DON’T TRUST THE B– IN APT 23 crashed to a 2.0 rating. That was a bit high...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Five-Year Engagement”
THE FIVE-YEAR ENGAGEMENT: Watch It At Home – If Only The Engagement Were A Little Shorter… Judd Apatow, as both director (The 40=Year Old Virgin, Knocked Up) and producer (Bridesmaids, Superbad, Pine...
SHOWBUZZDAILY BROADWAY REVIEW: “Nice Work If You Can Get It”
> The Producers may have been both the best and worst thing ever to happen to Matthew Broderick. He started his career in the mid-1980s as a fairly smooth, smart-aleck teen mouthpiece for Neil Simon in Brighton Beach Memo...
THE SKED’S TUESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 4/24/12
> The final arrival of the season is a flop. CW: THE LA COMPLEX has some promise, but as a low-budget, no-star version of the network’s usual fodder, it didn’t give the Marketing department much to work with.&...
The Sked: American Idol vs The Voice — The Gap Widens
>As the (relatively) highly-rated singing competition shows head toward their season finales, it is time to take a broader view of the full season ratings tracks for FOX’s American Idol and NBC’s The Voice. Th...
THE SKED PILOT REVIEW: “The LA Complex”
> THE LA COMPLEX: Tuesdays 9PM on CW – If Nothing Else Is On… By CW standards, THE LA COMPLEX is close to gritty realism, which is to say it’s a shade less glossy than 90210 and Gossip Girl. Set in...
THE SKED’S SUNDAY SCRIPTED CABLE SCORECARD – 4/22/12
> VEEP, properly enough, was #2 on HBO’s Sunday ticket. HBO: VEEP premiered with a fairly strong 0.6 in 18-49s on its initial Sunday airing, plus another .14 for its repeat later that night (remember, HBO ratings re...
THE SKED’S MONDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 4/23/12
> SMASHWatch likes it when Castle and Hawaii 5-0 take the night off. NBC: Last night’s episode of SMASH, written by (soon to be ex-) showrunner Theresa Rebeck, featured a Bollywood fantasy number, a plot to undermin...
The Sked: Spring Broadcast Ratings–Yes, There Is a Problem
>The New York Times recently ran a story about slumping ratings for the broadcast networks, drawing an immediate response by Bill Gorman of tvbythenumbers.com: “You can always count on Bill Carter of the New York Ti...
THE SKED’S SUNDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 4/22/12
> Clip shows aren’t what they used to be. FOX: The network tipped off that it knew its 25TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL wouldn’t be much of an event by airing it on the last pre-Sweeps Sunday of the season. The ...