SUMMER BOXOFFICE BEGINS: “Iron Man 3” Starts Its Foreign Campaign
You might think we’re still a week away from the beginning of the summer movie season, but if you were overseas, you’d be wrong. IRON MAN 3 (Disney) has already started its run in a dozen foreign territorie...
THE SKED Season Finale Review: “Halt and Catch Fire”
A serialized drama without major stars, a familiar genre or a grabby premise simply can’t afford to take half its season figuring itself out. (Having a title that says absolutely nothing about what the series is ...
THE SKED Pilot + 1 Review: “Brooklyn Nine-Nine”
BROOKLYN NINE-NINE: Tuesday 8:30PM on FOX Previously… on BROOKLYN NINE-NINE: Fun and games in a Brooklyn police precinct. Jake Peralta (Andy Samberg) is the ace detective who solves crimes but is happily slov...
THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Game of Thrones”
> GAME OF THRONES: Sundays 9PM on HBO Bend the knee, everyone: GAME OF THRONES is back. WHERE WE WERE: Reeling from the decapitation of Eddard Stark, who until the loss of his head had seemed to be the stalwar...
The Sked: Fast National Ratings Advisory
>The CW station in Miami, WSFL, will carry the Miami-New York Jets Monday Night Football game locally in primetime tonight. So the fast nationals for Gossip Girl and Hart of Dixie will be inflated Tuesday morning.&nb...
SHOWBUZZDAILY Review: “Saturday Night Live” with Tina Fey & Amy Poehler
Lorne Michaels does know how to throw a party. The 2015 finale of SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE closed with a rollicking “Santa Claus Is Coming To Town” from Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, joined by the cas...
NIELSENWAR: The FOX Fall Schedule (with Trailer Reviews)
FOX may be in 4th place for the season, but it has the hot hand right now, with Spring blockbuster Empire and surprise success The Last Man On Earth livening up its season. It’s trying to build on those with an a...
SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “Vinyl”
VINYL: Sunday 9PM on HBO – DVR Alert Even with an ever-increasing amount of new and emerging competition, for now at least there’s still nothing in television quite like an all-in, no-expense-spared HBO eve...
UPDATED: THE SKED CABLE/NETWORK SCORECARD – 2/4/14
AFTERNOON UPDATE: No good news in the final numbers for FOX, as NEW GIRL and BROOKLYN NINE-NINE stayed as is. All changes were of the 0.1 variety: up for NCIS, AGENTS OF SHIELD and THE ORIGINALS, down for NCIS LA, THE ...
THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Revenge”
Heroes probably still sets the bar for disastrous second seasons of initially enjoyable TV shows, but this year’s REVENGE came uncomfortably close. ABC more or less acknowledged that fact when it (in a genteel, c...
US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office Report – 12.27.2020
OPENINGS: WW84 (DC/Warners)–that’s the official title per the credits–had the biggest US opening of the pandemic era with $16.7M (a $7800 per-theatre average), much higher than the $9.7M for The Crood...
THE SKED: ABC Season Finales
The gang’s all here, now that ABC has joined NBC, CBS, FOX and CW and announced the dates of its season finales. Here’s the rundown: WEDNESDAY MARCH 27 8:30PM: The Neighbors WEDNESDAY APRIL 17 8PM: Sub...
SHOWBUZZDAILY EARLY FRIDAY BOXOFFICE REPORT – 11/2/12
The weekend looks bright for a couple of the new openings. According to preliminary numbers at Deadline, WRECK-IT RALPH (Disney) had a $13.5M opening day, on its way to a $50M weekend. If those numbers hold, the week...
OSCARLAND: Final Oscar Nomination Predictions
Let’s face it: anyone with an interest in the matter has been circling the same basic list of titles and names for weeks now, if not months, and the truth is that as much fun as it would be for some shocking surp...