THE BIJOU REVIEW: “Rise of the Planet of the Apes”
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “In Time”
IN TIME: Watch It At Home – The Clock Never Really Starts Ticking Andrew Niccol wants to be a populist moviemaker of ideas, but he just doesn’t have the knack. Niccol’s ideas are genuinely im...
THE SKED’S BUSTED PILOT THEATRE: “Metro”
> See A Word About Busted Pilots The word was that Stephen Gaghan’s pilot METRO was in serious consideration for NBC’s schedule until the very end (conventional wisdom has it that the final choice came down to Metro...
THE SKED: “X” Marks The Renewal
> In a week when the ratings news has been pretty bleak for FOX, they’ve whipped up some glad tidings by announcing that X FACTOR is renewed for the 2012-13 television season. It’s the first renewal of the sea...
A MIDSUMMER STUDIO’S REPORT CARD: 20th Century Fox
> With a summer movie season bracketed by the first weekend in May on one end, and Labor Day on the other, we’ve reached the midpoint of 2011’s array of blockbusters, and for the next week, here at SHOWBUZZDAILY, we...
THE SKED’S BUSTED PILOT THEATRE: “Weekends At Bellevue”
> See A Word About Busted Pilots It was widely rumored in the weeks before the networks announced their new schedules at the Upfronts that WEEKENDS AT BELLEVUE was destined to hit the air on FOX. In fact, even its timeslo...
THE SKED’S BUSTED PILOT THEATRE: “Council of Dads”
> See A Word About Busted Pilots Peter Tolan, who with Denis Leary created Rescue Me, knows something about the comedy that emerges when when men try to assert their masculinity in the most idiotic ways. So you can ...
PATHWAY TO PROFITABILITY — The Studio View
>At ShowBuzzDaily we look at the movie year in three parts: the soft Winter/Spring year-part from January through April, the strong Summer season from May-August, and the slow-starting but soon sizzling Fall/ Holiday season fro...
THE SKED: “Grimm” Is Right
> There’s going to be a 7th game of the 2011 World Series, and when it’s over, either Texas or St. Louis will be the winner. The loser, though, will be NBC. GRIMM, the network’s last chance for a new fall hit ...
THE BIJOU: “We Bought” A Preview
> Fox is adopted a very interesting strategy on its upcoming Cameron Crowe/Matt Damon/Scarlett Johansson drama WE BOUGHT A ZOO. The movie doesn’t open until December 23, but the studio will hold national “snea...
THE SKED’S PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “New Girl”
> A lot can happen between the creation of a TV pilot in the spring and production of episodes for the regular season: a writing/producing team is hired, audience focus groups weigh in, networks and studios (which may hav...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “What’s Your Number?”
WHAT’S YOUR NUMBER? – Worth a Ticket: The Number’s Higher Than You’d Think Romantic comedies that are actually romantic and comic are so rare these days, it doesn’t matter ...
COUNTING TO 10: The Emmy Nominations
> The Emmys, of all show-business awards, lend themselves least to surprise. That’s because they’re the only group that nominate and award continuing series, meaning that the same high-quality shows repeat yea...