Midseason Premiere

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “Outlander”

Posted April 10, 2016 by Mitch Salem

  OUTLANDER:  Saturday 9PM on Starz OUTLANDER hasn’t been the ratings breakout for Starz that Power has been, but it may be something even more important:  the network’s first real buzz show, one that’s put it on the drama map with its fellow cable networks, and is perhaps poised for a ratings jump in Season […]

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Articles

THE SKED MIDSEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Community”

Posted March 4, 2012 by Mitch Salem

> COMMUNITY returns to the NBC schedule at 8PM on Thursday, March 15. WHERE WE WERE:  Greendale Community College, of course!  Where the school mascot is a Human Being and the Dean (Jim Rash) is to be seen in outfits intended for any and all genders and species, a place of air conditioning repair secret-police […]

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Midseason Premiere

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “The Following”

Posted March 3, 2015 by Mitch Salem

  THE FOLLOWING:  Monday 9PM on FOX With the exception of those whose livelihoods depend on it, is there anyone who really wanted a third season of THE FOLLOWING?  After a promising start, the mass murder thriller wallowed in gore, torture and plotting that was pretentious, repetitive, and often downright silly.  The ratings reflected that, […]

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Reviews

THE SKED Season Premiere Review: “Under the Dome”

Posted July 1, 2014 by Mitch Salem

  UNDER THE DOME:  Monday 10PM on CBS The broadcast networks don’t get much in the way of pleasant surprises these days, but last summer’s UNDER THE DOME was an exception.  CBS’s “event” adaptation of Stephen King’s massively long novel was intended as an ambitious entry in the quiet world of summer programming, and it […]

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Reviews

THE SKED Season Premiere Review: “Last Man Standing”

Posted September 20, 2013 by Mitch Salem

  LAST MAN STANDING:  Friday 8PM on ABC If your heart beats faster when you hear the retro sound of a voice saying “Last Man Standing Is Recorded Before A Live Studio Audience,” then to paraphrase Jeff Foxworthy, you just may be the audience for Last Man Standing.  It’s found a smallish but loyal crowd […]

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Pilot Reports

SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “New Amsterdam”

Posted September 26, 2018 by Mitch Salem

  NEW AMSTERDAM:  Tuesday 10PM on NBC You can learn much of what you need to know about NBC’s medical procedural NEW AMSTERDAM from a bit of the David Schulner pilot script: DOCTOR 1:  Look–if you can’t help [name of patient] as a doctor, then just help her as a human being. DOCTOR 2:  Am […]

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Reviews

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “The Strain”

Posted July 12, 2015 by Mitch Salem

  THE STRAIN:  Sunday 10PM on FX Despite its contemporary NY setting, there’s an old-world charm to the horrors of THE STRAIN, with its silver bullets and sword-canes.  They come courtesy of series godfather and co-creator Guillermo del Toro, who loves this stuff (his own upcoming movie Crimson Peak appears to be a compendium of […]

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Pilot Reports

SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “Man With A Plan”

Posted October 24, 2016 by Mitch Salem

  MAN WITH A PLAN:  Monday 8:30PM on CBS – Change the Channel As the traditions of television splinter around them, the broadcast networks have fled en masse to TV comfort food this fall–but for CBS, that’s no more than the status quo.  Aside from its Robert & Michelle King shows, the network hasn’t moved […]

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