THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Vow”
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Necessary Roughness”
WHERE WE WERE: Dr. Dani Santino (Callie Thorne) was a happy suburban wife and mother who provided therapy to a few clients on the side, when her entire life was disrupted by a nasty divorce that left her in need of a g...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY LA FILM FEST REVIEW: “People Like Us”
PEOPLE LIKE US: Watch It At Home – Not The First Movie Like This Sam Harper (Chris Pine) is a guy we’ve met before. He’s the fast-talking, self-absorbed hustler who gets along in life by shee...
THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “The Good Wife”
THE GOOD WIFE: Sunday 9PM on CBS WHERE WE WERE: Waiting for Kalinda’s door to open. She (Archie Panjabi) was calmly waiting inside with a gun, waiting for her former husband, a man who even Kalinda thinks is da...
THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Mad Men”
> WHERE WE WERE: Reeling from the news that Don Draper (Jon Hamm) had proposed to his French-Canadian secretary Megan (Jessica Pare). In other cubicles at Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce, Joan (Christina Hendricks), pr...
THE SKED’S MIDSEASON RETURN: “Private Practice”
> Thursday night brought a mother lode of returning serialized dramas to broadcast TV, with both ABC and CW returning to duty. Let’s start by looking at ABC’s 10PM PRIVATE PRACTICE, airing a fresh episode for ...
THE SKED’S PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “Revenge”
> 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 SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “White Collar”
WHITE COLLAR: Tuesday 9PM on USA WHERE WE WERE: Watching Neal Caffrey (Matt Bomer) and his closest crony Mozzie (Willie Garson) fly away. Neal is a con man, art thief and forger let out of jail (with an ankl...
THE SKED’S PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “Once Upon A Time”
> 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 SKED PREMIERING TONIGHT: ABC’s “The River”
> 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...
THE SKED’S PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “Smash”
> 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 SKED PILOT REVIEW: “Longmire”
COMING THIS WEEK: The New and Improved SHOWBUZZDAILY! It’s a paradox of American pop culture of the moment that you can barely sell a movie ticket for anything that even smells like a ...
THE SKED: Happy SMASHday!
> As we know from the final ratings, last night went as well for NBC as it possibly could have, with the Giants/Patriot Super Bowl (yay, Giants!) becoming the most watched broadcast in television history, boasting an audience o...
THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Scandal”
SCANDAL: Thursday 10PM on ABC WHERE WE WERE: Washington DC, where Olivia Pope (Kerry Washington) is the best fixer around. Not a lawyer (although she has a law degree), not a publicist (although she’s expert ...