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2014-15 TV Season

NIELSENWAR 2014-15 Trailer Review: CW’s “The Flash”

  (NOTE:  as of Thursday afternoon, CW had only released a 30-second teaser for its new JANE THE VIRGIN, and nothing at all for midseason shows iZOMBIE and THE MESSENGERS.  We’ll post reviews of the rest of the net...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “The Good Wife”

  Season 6 of THE GOOD WIFE has a tough act to follow:  its own dazzling Season 5, which brought the show back from previous signs of subdued middle age and established it once again as one of the best shows on any form o...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Finale Review: “Parks & Recreation”

  The final hour of PARKS & RECREATION was more conceptual than one might have expected, in a way that made it feel more like an epilogue than a conclusion.  Written by series co-creator/showrunner Michael Schur and s...
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2014-15 TV Season

THE SKED Fall Pilot Report: ABC’s “Selfie”

  SELFIE:  Tuesday 8PM on ABC starting September 30 – If Nothing Else Is On… PLAYERS:  George Bernard Shaw.  (And Lerner & Loewe, whose My Fair Lady made Pygmalion into a fixture of pop culture.)  Serie...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Pilot + 1

SHOWBUZZDAILY Pilot + 1 Review: “The Slap”

  THE SLAP:  Thursday 8PM on NBC Previously… on THE SLAP:  A group of friends and relatives gathered for the 40th birthday party of mid-level NY public official Hector (Peter Sarsgaard), and tensions ran high, bet...
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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “The Originals”

  As we noted yesterday in writing about The Good Wife, churning out 22 hours per season is a tough challenge for any serialized network drama, especially one that concentrates on one central story, unlike, say the multipl...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “Scandal”

  SCANDAL:  Thursday 9PM on ABC Sheer addictiveness is SCANDAL’s stock in trade, and although the Season 4 premiere had an absence of the show’s jaw-dropping plot twists, it was already awash in adrenaline and...
by Mitch Salem
 
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2014-15 TV Season

NIELSENWAR 2014-15: Housekeeping At NBC & CBS

  The pick-ups are mostly done, so today was a time for the networks to clean up after themselves with some decisions on existing shows: NBC canceled DRACULA and remains in negotiations on PARENTHOOD, with the big issue re...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Midseason Finale

SHOWBUZZDAILY Midseason Finale Review: “Once Upon A Time”

  Even as ABC’s Agents of SHIELD suggests the limits of corporate/entertainment synergy, it’s been working out just fine for the same network’s ONCE UPON A TIME.  Whether the idea originated with the sho...
by Mitch Salem
 
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2014-15 TV Season

THE SKED Fall Pilot Report: ABC’s “Forever”

  FOREVER:  Tuesday 10PM on ABC starting September 23 – If Nothing Else is On… PLAYERS:  Series creator Matthew Miller, an experienced writer/producer on shows like Chuck, 666 Park Avenue and The 100, but who...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “Louie”

  LOUIE:  Thursday 10:30PM on FX We’ve learned over time that it’s impossible to take the measure of a season of LOUIE until we see what its auteur has in store for us.  Last year’s Season 4 was extraor...
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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Resurrection”

  Rarely has a TV series crashed as quickly and completely as ABC’s RESURRECTION.  It premiered just 10 months ago with a 3.8 rating in the 18-49 demo, yet last week it managed only an 0.8 (actually up a tenth from ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “About a Boy”

  ABOUT A BOY:  Tuesday 9:30PM on NBC This much is clear:  doula is the current sitcom profession of choice.  Just days after the second episode of Mulaney revolved around the hero’s discomfort with his girlfriend...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Articles

SHOWBUZZDAILY Review: “Saturday Night Live” with Kevin Hart

  Kevin Hart has been tirelessly promoting his The Wedding Ringer–even if we know from the Sony hacks that he charges extra for some of his marketing duties–and tonight, nearing the end of his campaign (which h...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Pilot Reports

PREMIERING TONIGHT: SHOWBUZZDAILY Pilot Review – “How To Get Away With Murder”

  HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER:  Thursday 10PM on ABC – Potential DVR Alert PLAYERS:  Executive Producer Shonda Rhimes–and you can repeat that name several more times without overstating her importance.  The ...
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