Reviews

THE SKED Season Premiere Review: “Grey’s Anatomy”

Posted September 27, 2013 by Mitch Salem

  GREY’S ANATOMY:  Thursday 9PM on ABC In the miracle season of 2004-05, ABC launched three smash hits:  Desperate Housewives, Lost and GREY’S ANATOMY.  Ten seasons later, the only one still around is Grey’s, and its blockbuster days are past, with ratings last spring around a 3.0 that didn’t always carry its timeslot, and with […]

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Pilot + 1 Review: “Stitchers”

Posted June 10, 2015 by Mitch Salem

  STITCHERS:  Tuesday 9PM on ABCFamily Previously… on STITCHERS:  Graduate student and science whiz Kirsten (Emma Ishta) has “temporal dysplasia,” a (fictional) condition in which she doesn’t experience the passage of time.  Somehow this has given her a robotic personality, but for unexplained reasons it also makes her the perfect candidate for the government’s Stitchers […]

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Pilot + 1 Review: “A to Z”

Posted October 10, 2014 by Mitch Salem

  A TO Z:  Thursday 9:30PM on NBC Previously… on A TO Z:  Dating website marketer Andrew (Ben Feldman) and lawyer Zelda (Cristin Milioti) have had their meet-cute, they’ve discovered that the office windows in their adjacent buildings overlook one another, so they can signal each other during their work-days, and now they’ve embarked on […]

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THE SKED PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “Rogue”

Posted April 10, 2013 by Mitch Salem

  ROGUE:  Wednesday 9PM on Audience Network (DirecTV only) A lot can happen between the creation of a TV pilot in the spring and the production of episodes for the regular season: a writing/producing team is hired, audience focus groups weigh in, networks and studios (which may have had their own turnover) give plenty of […]

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THE SKED Series Premiere Review: “Super Fun Night”

Posted October 2, 2013 by Mitch Salem

  SUPER FUN NIGHT:  Wednesday 9:30PM on ABC – Change the Channel ABC’s decision to bury the original pilot for its Rebel Wilson vehicle SUPER FUN NIGHT isn’t unheard-of, but it’s certainly no mark of confidence–the pilot, after all, is what convinced them to order the series in the first place.  (For the record, our […]

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Pilot + 1 Review: “Stalker”

Posted October 8, 2014 by Mitch Salem

  STALKER:  Wednesday 10PM on CBS Previously… on STALKER:  Lieutenant Beth Davis (Maggie Q) runs the Threat Assessment Unit of the LAPD, with a staff that includes Detectives Janice Lawrence (Mariana Klaveno) and Ben Caldwell (Victor Rasuk).  Their job is to investigate stalking incidents and protect victims from the more dangerous offenders.  The squad newcomer […]

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THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Dallas”

Posted August 9, 2012 by Mitch Salem

  The title of tonight’s season finale of DALLAS was “Revelations,” but really it had only one reveal worthy of a SPOILER ALERT, and even that one was increasingly guessable as the hour went on, for anyone attentive to the opening cast credits. Yes, it turned out, implausibly but in keeping with the demands of […]

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THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Dallas”

Posted January 29, 2013 by Mitch Salem

  DALLAS:  Monday 9PM on TNT The most important fact about this second season of the revamped DALLAS is, of course, the sad event that occurred off-screen:  the death of Larry Hagman, the legendary J.R. Ewing.  Hagman apparently worked right up to the end, and in fact despite evident frailty, he was quite prominent in […]

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