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THE SKED Season Premiere Review: “Glee”

  GLEE:  Thursday 9PM on FOX It was announced a while back that GLEE will wait until its third episode, after its previously planned 2-part salute to The Beatles, to deal with the passing of Cory Monteith and the absence ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY Oscars Live-Blog

  Movie audiences can’t get enough of watching things blow up, and tonight’s ACADEMY AWARDS has the potential to explode before our very eyes.  Everyone knows the litany of what’s gone awry along the way...
by Mitch Salem
 
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UPDATED: THE SKED CABLE/NETWORK SCORECARD – 2/3/14

  AFTERNOON UPDATE:  HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER had one of the biggest non-sports adjustments in memory, regaining all of the half-point it had appeared to lose from last week in the morning numbers and returning to 3.8.  Good fo...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY THURSDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 8.2.2018

  Football returned. 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 skews (women 18-49, ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED’S SUNDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 1/15/12

> Football is like crack for TV networks. FOX:  The NY Giants/Green Bay playoff game was massive, and since it ran until 8:12PM on the east coast, the giant SIMPSONS number, currently a 6.8, will end up adjusted.  Giv...
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Pilot Reports

SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert”

  The world of television may have undergone a revolution over the past decade, but it hasn’t hit the continent of late-night network talk shows, which have introduced variations from their 1950s-era formats, but lit...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “J. Edgar”

    J. EDGAR:  Watch It At Home – Brokeback Hoover   It’s a little unexpected that of all the films Clint Eastwood has directed, his new biography J. EDGAR most resembles The Bridges of Madison Count...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY Pilot + 1 Review: “Stitchers”

  STITCHERS:  Tuesday 9PM on ABCFamily Previously… on STITCHERS:  Graduate student and science whiz Kirsten (Emma Ishta) has “temporal dysplasia,” a (fictional) condition in which she doesn’t expe...
by Mitch Salem
 
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EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE – 10/18/13

  It’s not much of a surprise at this point that GRAVITY (Warners) continues to run rings around its competition.  Based on preliminary numbers at Deadline, the blockbuster will easily win its third consecutive week...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “Van Helsing”

  VAN HELSING:  Friday 10PM on Syfy – Change the Channel The playwright and filmmaker Neil LaBute has dabbled in genre before, although he may prefer not to be reminded of his disastrous remake of The Wicker Man.  ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED’S TUESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 4/3/12

> NEW GIRL is losing that new-show gleam. FOX:  Whether it’s been caused by the accumulated agony of FOX’s 4-sitcom schedule (with I Hate My Teenage Daughter and Raising Hope reruns as lead-ins), the reality re...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 8/9/15

  OPENINGS:  As expected, FANTASTIC FOUR (20th) plunged 25% on Saturday as word of mouth caught up with it (by comparison, Ant-Man lost just 14% on its 2d day of release), giving it a sad $26.2M weekend.  Things didnR...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED NETWORK SCORECARD – 8/10/14

  CBS was the night’s easy winner, although its numbers won’t be sorted out until tomorrow. CBS:  Golf’s fourth and final major, the PGA CHAMPIONSHIP, ran until 9PM ET last night instead of the scheduled...
by Mitch Salem
 
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UPDATED: THE SKED CABLE/NETWORK TUESDAY SCORECARD – 7/1/14

  NETWORK UPDATE:  The only shifts came at 10PM, where THE NIGHT SHIFT lost 0.1 and CELEBRITY WIFE SWAP gained the same amount.  That made the margin between them a bit closer, but an 0.4 win for NIGHT SHIFT is plenty good e...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Film Festival

Toronto Film Festival 2024 Reviews: “The Life of Chuck” & “We Live In Time”

  THE LIFE OF CHUCK (no distrib):  Although Mike Flanagan first gained attention as a director of low-budget feature films, he may be the first horror filmmaker to become an acknowledged master of the genre largely throu...
by Mitch Salem
 
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