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THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Magic City”

MAGIC CITY: Friday 9PM on Starz You’d have thought, after the low-rated, little-buzzed first season of MAGIC CITY, that both Starz and series creator Mitch Glazer would have recognized the series needed to return...

by Mitch Salem

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THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Downton Abbey”

Ah yes… the clink of silver on fine china, the lords and ladies sitting down to dinner in their best evening dress, the barely perceptible rustle of servants smoothly executing their duties behind the scenes–...

by Mitch Salem

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THE SKED: “Hell On Wheels” Keeps Riding the Rails

AMC has renewed its building-the-railroad melodrama HELL ON WHEELS for a 10-episode 3rd season. The renewal was far from a sure thing, as the show has indifferent ratings among 18-49s (the recent season finale was at 0...

by Mitch Salem

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THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Copper”

Throughout its first season, COPPER has almost never been as vivid as it seemed like it should be. The show’s premise and auspices were promising: the lead producers were Barry Levinson and Tom Fontana, who apa...

by Mitch Salem

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THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Hell On Wheels”

The 2nd season of HELL ON WHEELS was different, and perhaps somewhat better, than its first. (Behind the scenes, experienced producer John Shiban was brought on to showrun with series creators Joe and Tony Gayton.) I...

by Mitch Salem

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THE SKED’S PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “Vegas”

A lot can happen between the creation of a TV pilot in the spring and the production of episodes for the regular season: a writing/producing team is hired, audience focus groups weigh in, networks and studios (which may have ha...

by Mitch Salem

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THE SKED FALL PILOT REPORT: CBS’s “Vegas”

VEGAS: Tuesday 10PM on CBS – Potential DVR Alert VEGAS is CBS’s version of swinging for the fences, which is to say that it can also be seen as a neon-lit, gold-edged version of Longmire. This time the wi...

by Mitch Salem

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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “Great Expectations”

At this point in movie history, it’s beside the point to ask why we even need a new film version of GREAT EXPECTATIONS when David Lean’s 1946 masterpiece still exists. (And for those who want a different slant on ...

by Mitch Salem

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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO:: “Iceman”

Michael Shannon is brilliant in ICEMAN, but it has to be said that he’s brilliant in just about the same way that he was in Take Shelter, in Revolutionary Road, on Boardwalk Empire, and even in The Runaways (althoug...

by Mitch Salem

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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “Something In the Air” and “Ginger and Rosa”

Toronto this year provided two notable portraits of teenagers growing up in a time of political turmoil, Olivier Assayas’s SOMETHING IN THE AIR and Sally Potter’s GINGER AND ROSA. Assayas’s film is about th...

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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Lawless”

LAWLESS: Watch It At Home – A Moonshine War To Make You Long for “Boardwalk Empire” Director John Hillcoat specializes in stark, emotionally distanced pulp, and if that sounds like a contradiction in ...

by Mitch Salem

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THE SKED’S PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “Copper”

COPPER: Sunday 10PM on BBCAmerica – If Nothing Else Is On… A lot can happen between the creation of a TV pilot in the spring and the production of episodes for the regular season: a writing/producing team i...

by Mitch Salem

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THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Hell On Wheels”

HELL ON WHEELS – Sunday 9PM on AMC WHERE WE WERE: Building the transcontinental railroad. Our antihero, former Confederate soldier Cullen Bohannon, joined the Union Pacific Railroad’s march to the west on...

by Mitch Salem

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THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Mad Men”

The title of MAD MEN‘s Season 5 finale was “The Phantom,” and as is almost always the case with Matthew Weiner’s opus, it had several meanings. (Weiner shared credit for the finale’s script with ...

by Mitch Salem

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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Moonrise Kingdom”

MOONRISE KINGDOM: Worth A Ticket – The Kingdom is Wes Anderson’s Wes Anderson seemed to find the perfect vehicle for his particular form of brilliance with 2009’s stop-motion animated Fa...

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THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Magic City”

THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Downton Abbey”

THE SKED: “Hell On Wheels” Keeps Riding the Rails

THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Copper”

THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Hell On Wheels”

THE SKED’S PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “Vegas”

THE SKED FALL PILOT REPORT: CBS’s “Vegas”

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “Great Expectations”

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO:: “Iceman”

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “Something In the Air” and “Ginger and Rosa”

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Lawless”

THE SKED’S PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “Copper”

THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Hell On Wheels”

THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Mad Men”

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Moonrise Kingdom”

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