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THE SKED Season Premiere Review: “Chicago Fire”

  CHICAGO FIRE:  Tuesday 10PM on NBC At a time when network programmers’ fingers are ever-jumpier on their cancellation buttons, NBC has done an unusually good job nurturing CHICAGO FIRE into a success.  The show, ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Friday 2.17.2023 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  SHARK TANK was at 0.49, and 20/20 was down 0.03 to 0.31. CBS:  GREATEST @HOME VIDEOS was at 0.30, followed by reruns at 0.23/0.27. NBC:  LOPEZ VS LOPEZ gained 0.03 to 0.27, YOUNG ROCK ticked up ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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The Sked

The Sked: PROMO WATCH — through Thursday October 20

> With its schedule in the #1 position and no new shows to launch, CBS had plenty of time to maintain its current schedule and celebrate the 60th anniversary of the CBS Eye logo throughout the night with brief montages of The E...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Reviews

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “The Royals”

  THE ROYALS:  Sunday 10PM on E! THE ROYALS has been, if not much else, an effective demonstration of branding by E!.  Its first scripted series, recounting the antics of a fictional British royal family, fit in well wit...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Articles

THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Rookie Blue”

    The sparse network summer season for scripted series kicked off tonight with ROOKIE BLUE, beginning that extreme rarity, a 3d season, where few original network dramas in summer even get to a Season 2. WHERE WE WE...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “Westworld”

  WESTWORLD:  Sunday 9PM on HBO   With most other forms of new entertainment content sidelined for at least the next several weeks, television is likely to be even more at the center of our culture than it already is...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Articles

THE SKED: A Word About Busted Pilots

> “Busted” pilots, for those who don’t know, are simply the ones not ordered by their commissioning networks to series.  We’re going to start taking a look at some of last year’s busted pilots...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Midseason Premiere

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “American Crime”

  AMERICAN CRIME:  Wednesday 10PM on ABC AMERICAN CRIME‘s first season was, if not great network television, certainly ballsy.  John Ridley’s series took on race and class and religion to boot, and it was sho...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY TUESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 8.18.2020

  The preliminary DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION ratings were consistent with Monday at 0.2-0.3, a much tighter range than the ratings in 2016, which were at 0.4-1.3 on the broadcast networks.  (NBC was on the high end, t...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Midseason Finale

SHOWBUZZDAILY Midseason Finale Review: “Fear the Walking Dead”

  Something unexpected has been going on in the first half of the fourth season of AMC’s franchise spin-off FEAR THE WALKING DEAD.  Fear has always felt like a corporate calculation and a creative afterthought, unab...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Reviews

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Pitch”

  FOX’s PITCH, co-creator Dan Fogelman’s (with Rick Singer) “other” fall series–he also has a little project called This Is Us–is a modestly engaging drama that deserves another, you kno...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Articles

SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Tuesday 7.19.2022 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  Reruns at 0.35/0.21/0.14. CBS:  Reruns at 0.22/0.21/0.24. NBC:  AMERICA’S GOT TALENT fell a tenth to 0.63, and DANCING WITH MYSELF was down 0.06 to 0.33. FOX:  The MLB ALL-STAR GAME was a...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Articles

UPDATED: CHRISTMAS DAY BOX OFFICE: “Wolf” Slips To 2d Place

  DEC. 26 UPDATE:  A mere adjustment to overaggressive estimation or an early sign, in this instant word-of-internet age, that audiences aren’t having a good time?  The major change from last night’s early nu...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Pilot Reports

SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere TV Review: “In the Dark”

  IN THE DARK:  Thursday 9PM on CW The protagonist of CW’s new drama IN THE DARK is blind, but the show wants it to be very clear that Murphy (Perry Mattfeld) isn’t TV’s typical high-functioning disabled...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Articles

Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 9/18/16

  OPENINGS:  None of the studio releasing new films this weekend had much to be happy about.  BLAIR WITCH (Lionsgate) was the top of the newcomers in the US, but with a $9.7M start, it’s low-end even by the standar...
by Mitch Salem
 
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