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THE SKED Series Premiere Review: “Finding Carter”

  FINDING CARTER:  Tuesday 10PM on MTV – Potential DVR Alert Most YA drama, in one way or another, is about the emotional dislocation of being a teen, and in recent years, the reigning trope has been to externalize ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Articles

UPDATED: THE SKED NETWORK/CABLE SCORECARD – 11/5/13

  AFTERNOON UPDATE:  TROPHY WIFE became even more disastrous in final numbers, falling to a 1.1, which makes it one of the lowest-rated in-season, non-Friday series ever to get a back order.  It’s hard to imagine ABC k...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Film Festival

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Peterloo” & “Viper Club”

  PETERLOO (Amazon – November 9):  Not so much a movie as an illustrated historical recitation.  Mike Leigh’s film concerns the brutal 1819 government militia attack on civilians listening to a public address...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Articles

SHOWBUZZDAILY TUESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 1.31.2017

  Last night’s live Supreme Court announcement may lead to some adjustments this afternoon. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary key advertiser demog...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED REVIEW: “Saturday Night Live” with Adam Levine

SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE didn’t exactly hide its fears about Adam Levine’s comic chops as host when the show loaded up his opening monologue not only with the inevitable The Voice parody, but with guest “mentors...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Articles

NOTE TO READERS: Delayed Text

  Due to our coverage of the Toronto Film Festival beginning tomorrow, over the next week, while morning and afternoon charts will be posted on schedule (Nielsen permitting, as yesterday’s and today’s delays un...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Reviews

THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Necessary Roughness”

  Professional sports are so central to American culture, and so particularly critical to the television business, that it’s surprising the area had been largely ignored as the locale of a series until USA’s NE...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Articles

UPDATED: HOLIDAY WEEKEND US/WORLDWIDE BOX OFFICE: Deck the Multiplex Halls

  UPDATE:  The release of THE INTERVIEW continues to be improvisational, and contrary to regular practice–as well as Sony’s previously expressed plans–the studio announced on Sunday that in addition to i...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Film Festival

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Belfast,” “Benediction” & “Jagged”

  BELFAST (Focus/Universal – Nov. 12):  Kenneth Branagh’s semiautobiographical film walks a path laid by many great works by master filmmakers, including Fellini’s Amarcord, John Boorman’s Hope and...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Articles

Box Office Footnotes – 4/22/11

> This Week: Don’t Miss ShowbuzzDaily’s First Annual Summer Blockbuster Draft!   The last weekend of April is an odd one for Hollywood:  as Mitch Metcalf’s analysis shows,sometimes it begins the...
by Mitch Salem
 
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The Sked

THE SKED: New Fall Show On-Air Promotion — July 26 Update

>With about one week of network on-air promotion activity tracked in hit summer shows (those at or above a 2.0 Adult 18-49 rating), each network’s marketing strategies are starting to emerge. FOX is putting its chips on X...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Reviews

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere (-ish) Review: “Hart of Dixie”

  CW is treating Season 4 of HART OF DIXIE as carelessly as its characters tend to treat each other.  The show’s return has been delayed until midseason, moved to the nether reaches of Friday nights, and its order c...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Current Release

SHOWBUZZDAILY Streaming Film Review: “Palm Springs”

  The borders between “movies” and “television” were already beginning to buckle pre-pandemic, thanks to Netflix and the desire of studios to release their product on as many simultaneous platforms ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Film Festival

Sundance 2023 Reviews: “Flora & Son,” “A Little Prayer” & “The Pod Generation”

  FLORA AND SON (Apple):  John Carney’s Irish dramedy was (with Fair Play) the commercial bonanza of Sundance, reportedly with a $20M pricetag.  It isn’t hard to see why the studio and streamer checkbooks cam...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Articles

THE SKED’S TUESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 8/27/13

  Univision topped all but one English-language network last night. NBC:  AMERICA’S GOT TALENT won the night, but it only tied last week’s Tuesday low 2.2. ABC:  EXTREME WEIGHT LOSS was down 0.2 for the night...
by Mitch Salem
 
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