THE BIJOU REVIEW: “Our Idiot Brother”
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
THE SKED’S BUSTED PILOT THEATRE: “Other People’s Kids”
> See A Word About Busted Pilots For the most part, actors only get one shot in a given pilot season. Since the lion’s share of network pilots are produced during the same narrow Spring window–allowing ...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Our Idiot Brother”
OUR IDIOT BROTHER – Watch It At Home: Sitcom On A Big Screen Although it premiered at Sundance, OUR IDIOT BROTHER was an “independent film” only in a technical sense: it was produced on a ...
THE SKED’S BUSTED PILOT THEATRE: “Council of Dads”
> See A Word About Busted Pilots Peter Tolan, who with Denis Leary created Rescue Me, knows something about the comedy that emerges when when men try to assert their masculinity in the most idiotic ways. So you can ...
THE SKED: New Fall Show On-Air Promotion — August 23 Update
>With network on-air promotion activity tracked in hit summer shows (those near or above a 2.0 Adult 18-49 rating) for about four weeks since mid-July, the networks’ promotional priorities are summarized below. ...
THE BIJOU @ TIFF: Schedule Day
> For anyone attending the Toronto International Film Festival that begins in just over 2 weeks, today was a crucial day: the release of the Festival schedule. (TIFF also announced some not-shabby final additions to...
THE SKED’S BUSTED PILOT THEATRE: “Smothered”
> See A Word About Busted Pilots SMOTHERED, which was produced for ABC by Warner Bros Television, falls into the category of “not as bad as you’d think.” The concept is Predictable Sitcom 101:&nbs...
THE SKED: Summer Broadcast Ratings Update August 15-21
>The broadcast week just concluded (August 15-21) was all about NFL preseason football, with FOX winning the week with a 1.8 Adult 18-49 rating and NBC a close second with a 1.6 rating that might round up to a 1.7. FOX ha...
THE BIJOU BOXOFFICE: Footnotes – 8/21/11
> There’s not much to add about the weekend grosses that hasn’t been said (see Mitch Metcalf’s round-up report here), so let’s take a look at who, apart from the studios themselves, did and didn’t ...
THE BIJOU EARLY WEEKEND: FRIGHT BOXOFFICE
> According to Deadline, nothing much changed for the new boxoffice arrivals on Saturday. THE HELP is still far in front for the weekend, with a beautiful $19-20M second weekend, and it’s followed by RISE OF THE PLA...
THE SKED’S BUSTED PILOT THEATRE: “Homegrown”
> See A Word About Busted Pilots The pilot for HOMEGROWN, produced for CBS by Warner Bros Television, seems determined to hit as many dysfunctional-but-loving-family cliches as it can. We have one grouchy alpha male in a ...
THE BIJOU BOXOFFICE: Footnotes – 8/19/11
> THE HELP will be the year’s first “serious” movie to gross over $100M. September is traditionally one of the softest months on the movie release calendar, and 2011 is no exception: although there...
THE BIJOU EARLY RETURNS – UPDATED: BOXOFFICE THE BARBARIAN
> UPDATE: Deadline has a clearer picture of the day’s boxoffice, and THE HELP is already having a superb weekend, leading the day with $5.7M, down a tiny 25% from last week. If this number holds, its full weekend co...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Fright Night”
FRIGHT NIGHT – Watch It At Home: At Least Farrell Had Fun The new remake of Tom Holland’s 1985 FRIGHT NIGHT has a great set of credentials. Craig Gillespie, the director, was behind the well-reg...