ONE DAY – Watch It At Home: An Off-Day What went wrong with ONE DAY? It’s been clear for a while that its studio, Focus Features, didn’t have great confidence in the film: first they post...
> THE HOUR: Wednesday 10PM on BBCAmerica: Potential DVR Alert Here’s what’s wrong with BBCAmerica. Don’t get me wrong: it’s marvelous that BBCA exists to bring us shows like Luther, the...
> See A Word About Busted Pilots For those who like Six Degrees of Separation-ish linkages: the protagonist of ABC’s busted pilot GRACE is Michael Grace, an aging, womanizing choreographer who bears some resemblance...
> 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...
> Disclaimer: Network pilots now in circulation are not necessarily in the form that will air in the Fall. Pilots are often reedited and rescored, and in some cases even recast or reshot. So these critiques sh...
CRAZY STUPID LOVE – Worth A Ticket: It All Works Without further ado: CRAZY STUPID LOVE is the comedy of the summer. Also the drama. There are certainly spectacles out there now prov...
> AMC has just announced the Season 2 premiere for THE WALKING DEAD, and they’ve made an interesting decision: when the show returns on Sunday October 16, it will air at 9PM instead of its original timeslot at 10.&n...
ANOTHER EARTH – Worth A Ticket: Tiny Story With Big Ambitions For ANOTHER EARTH, the Sundance Film Festival went exactly the way it’s supposed to. The low-key picture was made on a miniscule bud...
> See A Word About Busted Pilots Deadline reported today that ABC Studios has signed Jesse Martin to a talent hold deal that, although it could end up with him being cast in a different ABCS project, is largely in place s...
> HBO can afford to keep little-watched shows like In Treatment and Treme around, because they’re not selling advertising–they’re selling a brand. People who will only watch True Blood and Entourage feel...
>See A Word About Busted Pilots On paper, EXIT STRATEGY looked like one of the hot FOX pilots this past season, a high-profile (Ethan Hawke’s first TV project) espionage thriller in the vein of 24 that could inherit that ...