Posts Tagged ‘Midseason TV’
 

 

THE SKED: “Sean” Leaves the World Unsaved

  NBC has pulled the plug on SEAN SAVES THE WORLD, its misbegotten Sean Hayes vehicle.  The series has aired 12 of its 14 completed episodes (a total of 18 had been ordered), and it’s not yet clear what will be repl...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

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...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED Season Finale Review: “Resurrection”

  As bad as it is for a network when it launches a new series and no one shows up, in a way it has to be worse when the series premiere has a huge start–and then viewers drop away in droves once they’ve given i...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Pilot + 1 Review: “One Big Happy”

ONE BIG HAPPY:  Tuesday 9:30PM on NBC Previously… on ONE BIG HAPPY:  Luke (Nick Zano) and lesbian best buddy Lizzy (Elisha Cuthbert) have followed through on their vow to try and have a baby together if neither is with ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED Season Premiere Review: “Dallas”

  DALLAS:  Monday 9PM on TNT The ratings didn’t collapse for the reincarnated DALLAS when it had to weather the loss of Larry Hagman and his iconic character J.R. Ewing last season, so the show is back.  Without Ha...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Banshee”

  Everyone in Banshee, Pennsylvania is a tortured soul, from its Mayor to its police officers to its waitresses and teens.  That’s what gives BANSHEE a weight that goes beyond its sheer awesomeness as an action seri...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED Pilot + 1 Review: “Rake”

  RAKE:  Thursday 9PM on FOX Previously… on RAKE:  Keegan Deane (Greg Kinnear) is an LA lawyer whose life is a wreck.  Between tax evasion issues and a gambling habit, he’s lost his house and has to live wit...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “Togetherness”

  TOGETHERNESS:  Sunday 9:30PM on HBO – Potential DVR Alert With TOGETHERNESS, Mark and Jay Duplass join the pilgrimage of indie filmmakers to HBO, which now has a virtual Sundance Film Festival of its own every Sun...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED Pilot + 1 Review: “Killer Women”

  KILLER WOMEN:  Tuesday 10PM on ABC Previously… on KILLER WOMEN:  Molly Parker (Tricia Helfer) is your basic aggressive, rule-breaking, sharp-shooting Texas Ranger–except that she looks great in a dress.  S...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED: “The Michael J. Fox Show” Is (All But Officially) Done

  NBC was desperate to get Michael J. Fox back on its air, so much so that it ordered 22 episodes of his series before a pilot had even been produced.  But viewers had much less interest in Fox’s return, especially ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED Midseason Premiere Review: “The Walking Dead”

  THE WALKING DEAD:  Sunday 9PM on AMC The back half of THE WALKING DEAD‘s fourth season began by bringing the series back to square one:  isolated figures wandering without a clear goal through an anonymous landsc...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED Pilot Review: “Surviving Jack”

  SURVIVING JACK:  Thursday 9:30PM on FOX – Change the Channel SURVIVING JACK is a Mortifying Parent Sitcom, which isn’t much of a surprise, since it originated with Justin Halpern, who wrote the book that bec...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED Series Premiere Review: “24: Live Another Day”

  24: LIVE ANOTHER DAY:  Monday 9PM on FOX – DVR Alert Jack Bauer didn’t speak until 40 minutes into the first hour of tonight’s 24: LIVE ANOTHER DAY premiere.  It’s not that he wasn’t aroun...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED Series Premiere Review: “Black Sails”

  BLACK SAILS:  Saturday 9PM on Starz – Worth A Look The pirate action-adventure BLACK SAILS is Starz’s latest attempt to swing for the fences with ambitious original programming and finally be taken as seriou...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “iZombie”

IZOMBIE:  Tuesday 9PM on CW – Potential DVR Alert Rob Thomas and Diane Ruggiero-Wright’s clever IZOMBIE (based on a DC comic) brings back from the dead something very close to the premise of ABC’s lamented Pu...
by Mitch Salem