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THE SKED: Jay Leno Exits (Again)

  For a determinedly noncontroversial guy, there may not have been a television figure in the last twenty-five years more scrutinized than Jay Leno.  He stood at the media epicenter in the 1990s, when he warred with David...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED: Farewell, “Raising Hope”

  FOX issued some glad tidings on Friday with the group renewals of Brooklyn Nine-Nine, The Mindy Project, New Girl and The Following, and today it was time for another shoe to fall.  The network announced that the one-ho...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED Season Premiere Review: “Veep”

  VEEP:  Sunday 10:30PM on HBO VEEP, television’s most scintillatingly vicious comedy, returned with a relatively mild Season 3 premiere by its standards.  Largely that was because the script, written by Supervisin...
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THE SKED Review: “Saturday Night Live” with Andrew Garfield

  When inspiration hit this week’s SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, it came from an unexpected direction.  African-American staff writer Leslie Jones, who isn’t an official cast member, pretty much blew the doors off Week...
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THE SKED 2013 UPFRONTS: FOX Trailer – “Rake”

  FOX’s most highly-touted drama pilot the entire development season was RAKE, which is indeed on the air.  The price of scoring Greg Kinnear as a lead (much as it had been last year with Kevin Bacon) is that he wou...
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THE SKED: Upfront Ad Sales and Their Moving Parts

  According to published reports, CBS, CW and now FOX have largely concluded their upfront sales of advertising time for the 2013-14 broadcast season.  (“Upfront” meaning sales closed before the season begins,...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED Season Premiere Review: “Law & Order: SVU”

  LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT – Wednesday 10PM on NBC SVU began its 15th season with an atypically dark, serialized episode that served as a showcase for star Mariska Hargitay.  It picked up from the Seaso...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED Pilot + 1 Review: “The Originals”

  THE ORIGINALS:  Tuesday 8PM on CW Previously… on THE ORIGINALS:  The Mikaelsons have come (back) to New Orleans.  The literally original vampire family (their witch mother cast the spell that created vampirism),...
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THE SKED Review: “Saturday Night Live” with John Goodman

  The most inventive part of tonight’s SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE really wasn’t, because it was almost certainly unintentional.  Nevertheless, it was sort of brilliant, in a “found art” sort of way.  Soo...
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THE SKED Season Finale Review: “Major Crimes”

  The Season 2 finale of TNT’s MAJOR CRIMES, intended to pay off the show’s one serialized storyline, about Rusty (Graham Patrick Martin), the teen ward of series protagonist LAPD Captain Sharon Raydor (Mary Mc...
by Mitch Salem
 
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NIELSENWAR: Olympics Post-Mortem, and Top 5 Midseason Storylines

  SQUIRREL!  NBC, and its media enablers, will do their best to focus discussion of the WINTER OLYMPICS ratings on total viewers, daytime and online numbers, and–SQUIRREL!–anything other than the evident fact...
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THE SKED Pilot + 1 Review: “Crisis”

  CRISIS:  Sunday 10PM on NBC Previously… on CRISIS:  On its way to a field trip in New York, a class of students from a Washington DC private school are kidnapped by a large and well-organized group of captors, an...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED Season Finale Review: “Parenthood”

  PARENTHOOD doesn’t have the luxury that higher-rated long-running shows do of deciding its own fate, so tonight’s season finale, written by series creator Jason Katims and directed by Lawrence Trilling, could...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED Premiere Review: “Rosemary’s Baby” (Part 1)

  No one could seriously imagine that the TV remake of ROSEMARY’S BABY would come close to Roman Polanski’s 1968 masterpiece, so let’s get the obvious over with in a single paragraph.  (The amazing thing...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED 2013 UPFRONTS: ABC Midseason Trailer – “Mixology”

  Another TBD for ABC’s midseason:  the high-concept comedy MIXOLOGY.  The entire season takes place in a single night, at a bar where 10 single people are looking for love (or a close substitute), which–if t...
by Mitch Salem
 
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