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Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “American Fiction,” “The Critic” & “Mother, Couch”

  AMERICAN FICTION (Orion/MGM/Amazon – Nov. 17):  The Toronto People’s Choice Award has been something of a golden ticket to a Best Picture nomination over the years, and this year the prize went to Cord Jeff...
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Reviews

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Dark Matter”

  One of the reasons “locked room” mysteries appeal to producers is that they require limited production values, and for what amounted to half its initial season, DARK MATTER tried to make up for its inadequa...
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Articles

THE SKED: Friday Ratings – Network Scorecard – 11/4/11

> The absence of World Series Game 7 didn’t have the dramatic impact that might have been expected. NBC:  Hey, GRIMM won its timeslot, that’s something NBC doesn’t get to say very damn often this season.&...
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THE BIJOU: Boxoffice Footnotes – 9/23/11

> MONEYBALL‘s debut looks to be in line with the opening weekend of The Social Network ($22.4M) just about a year ago.  That movie rode the Oscar race to a $97M gross.  Moneyball is more likable but less incisiv...
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Reviews

THE SKED Season Finale Review: “Bates Motel”

  The second season of BATES MOTEL has been two largely separate series, and one of them is well worth watching.  That’s the one about teenaged Norman Bates (Freddie Highmore), the sensitive and high-strung taxiderm...
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THE BIJOU: Boxoffice Footnotes – 10/21/11

> PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3 continues Paramount’s license to print money–it’ll soon be in profit even with worldwide marketing costs calculated in.  Yesterday will probably prove to be by far the biggest day ...
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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Saturday 11.13.2021 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED

  BROADCAST FINALS:  ABC’s COLLEGE FOOTBALL game led primetime at 0.70, but afternoon games at 1.17 (ABC)/0.90 (FOX) were higher.  NBC’s SNL was up 0.09 to 0.97.  CW’s originals were at 0.10/0.09.   B...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED: ABC

> THOUGHTS ON ABC’S SCHEDULE (AND OUR PREDICTIONS) FALL COMEDIES FALL DRAMAS MIDSEASON COMEDIES MIDSEASON DRAMAS ABC ANALYSIS     CBS ANALYSIS     NBC ANALYSIS     FOX ANALYSIS     ...
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THE SKED 2013 UPFRONTS: FOX Trailer – “Us & Them”

  Currently TBD on the FOX schedule is US & THEM, an adaptation of the well-liked British comedy Gavin & Stacey.  It stars the also well-liked Jason Ritter and Alexis Bledel as co-workers from different branches o...
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Pilot Reports

THE SKED Series Premiere Review: “Partners”

  PARTNERS:  Monday 9PM on FX – Change the Channel Anyone who’s seen the promos on FX over the past several weeks has known what was coming:  PARTNERS is a sitcom with the charm of an IRS audit.  It’s ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED’S PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “Terra Nova”

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

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Stitchers”

  Very little about STITCHERS has made sense, and that includes ABCFamily’s decision to renew it for another season, despite ratings that have been lousy even with Pretty Little Liars as its lead-in.  The word is th...
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Articles

Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 12/21/14

  Although we’re still a few days away from December 25, the holiday movie rush is upon us, which should mean an unusually strong Sunday that will lead into 2 solid weeks of weekday numbers that look more like weeken...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Reviews

THE SKED Season Finale Review: “Revenge”

  REVENGE made a concerted effort this season to earn back its… well, let’s call it “credibility,” although that word doesn’t have much to do with this series.  Creator and original showrunne...
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Midseason Premiere

THE SKED Season Premiere Review: “The Following”

  THE FOLLOWING:  Monday 9PM on FOX (starting Jan 27) The blood-drenched, increasingly grandiose literary pretensions of THE FOLLOWING grew tiresome by the end of last season’s run.  It seemed like very good news t...
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