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THE SKED REVIEW: “Saturday Night Live” with Melissa McCarthy

Posted April 7, 2013 by Mitch Salem

  SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE usually benefits from having a host with the confident comic talent that Melissa McCarthy brings to the table, but even with a 3-week hiatus in its pocket, the writing staff came up with little that was up to her level.  The result was a very long 90 minutes. Almost everything that […]

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THE SKED REVIEW: “Hatfields & McCoys” Episode 2

Posted May 30, 2012 by Mitch Salem

  The second 2-hour chunk of the newly anointed most popular scripted show in the history of basic cable, History’s HATFIELDS & MCCOYS, was much like the first episode:  a strong opening hour followed by a second that didn’t quite live up to it.  Oddly, Hour 4 even failed for many of the same reasons […]

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THE EMMY AWARDS: Analysis and Review

Posted September 18, 2016 by Mitch Salem

  There weren’t a lot of surprises at tonight’s EMMY AWARDS, and the truth is that where television is right now, there didn’t need to be.  (A full list of winners is here.)  Game of Thrones and Veep were arguably coming off their best seasons ever, and it would be hard to begrudge them their […]

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THE SKED: WHAT TO WATCH THIS FALL ON TUESDAYS (1st Draft)

Posted May 24, 2011 by Mitch Salem

> The networks have proclaimed their Fall schedules, the new series have been (partially) unveiled, so… what now?  What will actually be worth watching when network TV comes back to life in a few months?  SHOWBUZZDAILY is here to help you out.  The good news is that since virtually all TV series are available these […]

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SHOWBUZZDAILY OSCAR WATCH: THE TELECAST

Posted February 27, 2012 by Mitch Salem

> Until its final 45 minutes, the one thing that could be said about this year’s Oscar telecast was that it was at least brisk.  Merely 2 hours and 15 minutes into the show, there were amazingly only 3 awards and the In Memorium segment still to go.  But for ABC, running under the appointed […]

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THE SKED FALL TRAILER REVIEW: NBC’s “Guys With Kids”

Posted May 16, 2012 by Mitch Salem

          GUYS WITH KIDS:  Wednesday 8:30PM on NBC   WHAT IT’S SAYING:  Everyone loves Judd Apatow movies, right?  Irreverent guys who hang out together and give each other crap?   Because this is totally Apatow-esque–with cute babies! WHAT IT’S REALLY SAYING:  The last show that tried to imitate Judd Apatow was Work […]

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THE SKED’S MIDSEASON RETURN: “Private Practice”

Posted January 6, 2012 by Mitch Salem

> Thursday night brought a mother lode of returning serialized dramas to broadcast TV, with both ABC and CW returning to duty.  Let’s start by looking at ABC’s 10PM PRIVATE PRACTICE, airing a fresh episode for the first time since a 2-hour special on November 17. WHERE WE LEFT OFF:  As usual, there was all […]

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THE SKED NETFLIX REVIEW: “House of Cards” (Full Season)

Posted March 13, 2013 by Mitch Salem

  It took me just under 6 weeks to get through the 13 hours of HOUSE OF CARDS, the first original Netflix series.  That’s a little less than half the time a regular weekly run would have taken, although nowhere near the weekend binge-viewing that some were planning when all the episodes of Season 1 […]

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