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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Defiance”

  The third season of DEFIANCE may have been its most assured and cohesive to date.  However, as the most expensive of Syfy’s low-rated trio of Friday scripted summer shows, its fate has been far from certain.  In ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “Insecure”

  INSECURE:  Sunday 10:30PM on HBO Issa Rae’s INSECURE became progressively more assured during the course of its first season, and although it wasn’t more than a moderate success, its ratings trended upward t...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Pilot + 1

THE SKED Pilot + 1 Review: “Ironside”

  IRONSIDE:  Wednesday 10PM on NBC Previously… on IRONSIDE:  NYPD Sergeant Robert Ironside (Blair Underwood), shot in the back and now in a wheelchair, has won the right to a hand-picked squad (Pablo Schreiber, Spe...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Midseason Premiere

SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “Hunters”

  HUNTERS:  Monday 10PM on Syfy – If Nothing Else Is On… HUNTERS has production values that suggest it’s intended as one of Syfy’s more A-level entries (it’s shot in Australia rather than Can...
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UPDATED: THE SKED CABLE/NETWORK SCORECARD – 5/13/14

  NETWORK UPDATE:  The season finales of AGENTS OF SHIELD and THE GOLDBERGS gained 0.1 at ABC.  On NBC, the 9:01PM start of ABOUT A BOY raised THE VOICE by 0.1 and dropped BOY correspondingly.  The season finale of THE ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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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 ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY EARLY WEEKEND BOXOFFICE 3/31/12

> According to preliminary numbers at Deadline, THE HUNGER GAMES (Lionsgate/Summit) had an exceptional Saturday bump of almost 40%, giving it $26.2M for the day and a probable weekend of $63-65M.  If these numbers hold, Hu...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Current Release

SHOWBUZZDAILY Film Review: “Transformers: Age of Extinction”

  TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION:  Not Even For Free – Hollywood’s Blockbuster Mentality To the Max Here are just a few of the epic movies with running times shorter than the 165 minutes of TRANSFORMERS: AGE ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY TUESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 10.23.2018

  Inevitably, THE CONNERS dropped. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary live+same day key advertiser demographics (adult 18-34, 18-49 and 25-54 ratings), a...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY TUESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 2.5.2019

  The STATE OF THE UNION Address aired on 4 networks, scoring highest on NBC. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary live+same day key advertiser demographic...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED’S SUNDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 10/14/12

Another new show could be headed for the exits. ABC:  666 PARK AVENUE continued to fall, down another 0.2 to 1.5, and only a deal with the devil is likely to save it.  Worse for ABC, though, might have been the 3.0 for ONCE U...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Reviews

THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “The Killing”

And finally, after 2 seasons, 26 hours of television, seemingly a hundred red herrings, and enough rain to float the SS Poseidon, THE KILLING revealed who killed Rosie Larsen.  The only thing that was ever worth spoiling on th...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Midseason Finale

THE SKED Midseason Finale Review: “Beauty & the Beast”

  New showrunner Brad Kern (working with series creators Sherri Cooper and Jennifer Levin) has made plenty of changes to BEAUTY & THE BEAST, but mostly they haven’t been improvements.  The gothic romanticism of ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Film Festival

Sundance 2023 Reviews: “Sometimes I Think About Dying,” “Bad Behaviour,” & “Divinity”

  SOMETIMES I THINK ABOUT DYING:  The Office, for depressives.  Fran (Daisy Ridley) is the most anonymous member of a nondescript shipping department in a small Oregon town, wrapped in so many layers of emotional insulat...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Articles

Behind the US/Worldwide Box Office – 9.23.2018

  OPENINGS:  THE HOUSE WITH A CLOCK IN ITS WALLS (Reliance/Universal) was built for weekend matinees, and a 47% Saturday bump carried it to a $26.9M weekend.  Among recent fall supernatural family movies, that puts it $3...
by Mitch Salem
 
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