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THE SKED PILOT REVIEW: “Girls”

Posted April 16, 2012 by Mitch Salem

> GIRLS – Sundays 10:30PM on HBO – Potential DVR Alert The lion’s share of attention paid to HBO goes to its splashy, big-budget, big-name projects like Game of Thrones, Boardwalk Empire, Luck and True Blood.  But at the same time, the network has consistently produced smaller, idiosyncratic shows that are more akin to independent […]

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THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “The Client List”

Posted June 18, 2012 by Mitch Salem

Tonight’s season finale of Lifetime’s very softcore (so soft it’s basically liquid) prostitution hit THE CLIENT LIST was more guilty than pleasure.  The hour, written by Producer Barbara Nance (from a story by Nance and star Jennifer Love Hewitt) and directed by Hewitt herself, was actually quite bewildering.  After last week’s climactic bombshell of Riley’s […]

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Pilot Reports

PREMIERING TONIGHT – THE SKED’S FALL PILOT REPORT: FOX’s “The Mindy Project”

Posted September 25, 2012 by Mitch Salem

    THE MINDY PROJECT: Tuesday 9:30PM on FOX – DVR Alert Companion shows don’t come more perfectly designed than FOX’s THE MINDY PROJECT.  When FOX launched New Girl last fall, it became an instant hit, with a quirky, likable heroine in Zooey Deschanel, a very strong supporting cast, and a sophisticated, urban tone.  it’s […]

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THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Falling Skies”

Posted August 22, 2012 by Mitch Salem

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tg8sujxWids&sns=em Since FALLING SKIES wants to be on the air for years to come (it’s already been renewed for a 3rd season), its story can’t ever end, unless it reaches an official final valedictory year.  So in the Season 2 finale, written by Executive Producer Remi Aubochon and Co-Executive Producers David Weddle and Bradley Thompson, […]

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Pilot + 1

THE SKED PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “Revolution”

Posted September 25, 2012 by Mitch Salem

  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 notes, helpful and otherwise, and critics begin to […]

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THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “90210”

Posted October 9, 2012 by Mitch Salem

  90210:  Monday 8PM on CW WHERE WE WERE:  Mid car-crash.  A truck was plowing into Dixon (Tristan Wilds), in a way that would surely kill an actor in the middle of contract renegotiations.  Dixon’s love Adriana (Jessica Lowndes), singer and sometime alcoholic, drug addict and maniac, to whom Dixon was driving, had given up […]

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THE SKED FALL FINALE REVIEW: “The Walking Dead”

Posted December 3, 2012 by Mitch Salem

  It’s odd to think that the biggest hit on American television is centered around the flesh-eating undead, but enough about Fox News…  THE WALKING DEAD is a genuine television phenomenon, in more ways than one.  To begin with, it’s a staggering success, a cable series that routinely has larger audiences (in the 18-49 demographic, […]

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THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Suits”

Posted January 18, 2013 by Mitch Salem

  SUITS:  Thursday 10PM on USA Last season, SUITS took a leap up in class, becoming not just the smartest and most sophisticated show on USA–which, let’s face it, isn’t the highest bar in the business–but making itself worthy of comparison with some of the best shows on anyone’s air, including legal genre colleague The […]

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