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Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Glass Onion” & “Pearl”

GLASS ONION (Netflix – November 4 in theaters, December 23 online): After Rian Johnson’s Knives Out broke through to become one of the increasingly few non-IP-based mainstream hits in the market ($311.6M wo...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Finale Review: “Big Little Lies”

BIG LITTLE LIES was a bait and switch of the highest order. The show was marketed as a murder mystery, and the fragmentary flashforwards early on confirmed the idea that this was where the story was headed. But the k...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “Big Little Lies”

BIG LITTLE LIES: Sunday 9PM on HBO – DVR Alert We no longer blink when movie stars sign on for TV work, and this week’s arrivals are Oscar winners Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman, not to mention Shailen...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “Call Me By Your Name,” “Fun Mom Dinner,” “Before I Fall” & “Wind River”

CALL ME BY YOUR NAME (Sony Classics): Luca Guadagnino’s sumptuous gay romance has been anointed as the Sundance entry most likely to figure into next year’s Oscar race, and it’s easy to see why. It ...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “Secrets & Lies”

SECRETS & LIES – Sunday 9PM on ABC – Change the Channel Everything about the return of ABC’s SECRETS & LIES feels a bit off. Even the scheduling of the quasi-anthology series (different storie...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “American Gothic”

AMERICAN GOTHIC: Wednesday 10PM on CBS – Change the Channel Since even ABC is having trouble these days with its trademark soaps about melodrama, dark reveals and violence among close relations (The Family, Blood...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “Guilt”

GUILT: Monday 9PM on Freeform – Change the Channel The network now known as Freeform is making it clear that, building on the success of ABC Family’s Pretty Little Liars, it intends to be a purveyor of YA g...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Pilot + 1 Review: “American Crime”

AMERICAN CRIME: Thursday 10PM on ABC Previously… on AMERICAN CRIME: In Modesto, California, former serviceman Matt Skokie was murdered in his home, and his wife Gwen was viciously injured in the attack. The l...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “American Crime”

AMERICAN CRIME: Thursday 10PM on ABC – Potential DVR Alert Recently, the broadcast networks have started kicking the tires of what we think of as “cable” oriented programming, by which we mean serial...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Pilot + 1 Review: “Gracepoint”

GRACEPOINT: Thursday 9PM on FOX Previously… on GRACEPOINT: In the small seaside town of Gracepoint, in the western US (as opposed to the small seaside town of Broadchurch in the UK, where the BBC version of the...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Pilot + 1 Review: “How To Get Away With Murder”

HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER: Thursday 10PM on ABC Previously… on HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER: At Middleton College, the brilliant, daunting law professor and criminal defense attorney Annalise Keating (Viola Da...

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THE SKED Fall Pilot Report: FOX’s “Gracepoint”

GRACEPOINT: Thursday 9PM on FOX starting October 2 – Potential DVR Alert PLAYERS: Broadchurch, the wildly successful limited (and now continuing) British TV series, of which Gracepoint is a remake. Broadchurc...

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THE SKED Season Finale Review: “Murder In the First”

The season finale (if it’s lucky) of TNT’s mediocre MURDER IN THE FIRST was rather sad, pallid proof that the powerhouse writer/producer Steven Bochco has been outstripped by the genre he helped invent, the s...

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NIELSENWAR 2014-15 Trailer Review: ABC’s “How To Get Away With Murder”

HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER: Thursday 10PM on ABC THE FACTS: The new wing to the Shonda Rhimes Thursday that’s about to be a cornerstone of the ABC line-up. In case that name wasn’t enough, try t...

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PREMIERING TONIGHT: THE SKED Pilot Report – ABC’s “Betrayal”

Read All Our Fall Pilot Reports here and Midseason Pilot Reports here. BETRAYAL: Sunday 10PM on ABC – If Nothing Else Is On… BETRAYAL is certainly on brand for ABC. Its pilot, just like the one for Reve...

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Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Glass Onion” & “Pearl”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Finale Review: “Big Little Lies”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “Big Little Lies”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “Call Me By Your Name,” “Fun Mom Dinner,” “Before I Fall” & “Wind River”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “Secrets & Lies”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “American Gothic”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “Guilt”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Pilot + 1 Review: “American Crime”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “American Crime”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Pilot + 1 Review: “Gracepoint”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Pilot + 1 Review: “How To Get Away With Murder”

THE SKED Fall Pilot Report: FOX’s “Gracepoint”

THE SKED Season Finale Review: “Murder In the First”

NIELSENWAR 2014-15 Trailer Review: ABC’s “How To Get Away With Murder”

PREMIERING TONIGHT: THE SKED Pilot Report – ABC’s “Betrayal”

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