THE SKED THURSDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 3/8/12
> AWAKE is getting sleepy. NBC: A 20% drop from a series premiere isn’t ordinarily anything shocking or particularly worrisome. But when you start with a 2.0 the way AWAKE did, that leaves you with a 1.6 in We...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Friends With Kids”
FRIENDS WITH KIDS: Worth A Ticket – Sitcom, In A Good Way We live in a pop culture where the recent Emmy Award nominees are so clearly superior to the films up for this past year’s Oscar that ...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “John Carter”
JOHN CARTER: Watch It At Home – Never Goes Into Orbit All signs suggest that JOHN CARTER will be a financial failure of historic proportions, mostly because of its colossal cost (Disney admit...
THE SKED’S PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “Awake”
> 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...
THE SKED’S WEDNESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 3/7/12
> Viewers could tell that REVENGE wasn’t FOR REAL. ABC: Serialized dramas repeat notoriously badly, so the network had the clever idea of filling in the spring schedule gap with a “news” show about true-...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Silent House”
SILENT HOUSE: Watch It At Home – A Curiosity SILENT HOUSE isn’t the first feature-length film to provide the illusion that it’s all been shot in a single continuous take. The mo...
THE SKED: “The Voice” Is Raised To Twice Weekly
> If you’re NBC and you have exactly one hit show, what do you want? More of it. Beginning the week of April 2, THE VOICE will air on both Mondays and Tuesdays, with live performance shows 8-10PM on Mondays and elim...
THE SKED’S TUESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 3/6/12
> FOX’s 4-sitcom Tuesday excited no one. FOX: I HATE MY TEENAGE DAUGHTER and BREAKING IN made unimpressive returns to the schedule. Daughter could claim a decent retention of its RAISING HOPE lead-in, and it a...
THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Breaking In”
> WHERE WE WERE: Contra Security, a wacky high-tech firm run by the extravagantly enigmatic Oz (Christian Slater). Contra tests the security measures of its clients by cracking them wide open, staging mock break-ins...
THE SKED: “Justified” Proves It
> Here’s some welcome if unsurprising news: F/X has renewed JUSTIFIED for a 4th season. The show, now at the midpoint of Season 3 (the finale airs April 10) drew a 0.9 last week in 18-49s, which isn’t Wa...
THE SKED’S MONDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 3/5/12
> SMASHWatch is grinning this morning, but should it be? NBC: Airing against repeats on both of the other networks, SMASH was up a big 0.4 to 2.7, a healthy number for any 10PM drama these days. So… yay? ...
THE SKED @ PALEYFEST 2012: “New Girl”
> There’s something infectious about watching the people behind a brand-new TV hit enjoy their success, and at tonight’s PaleyFest salute to this year’s break-out comedy hit NEW GIRL, the pleasure of the cast ...