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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Tyrant”

TYRANT went all the way back to the source for its main plotline this season, giving Bassam Al-Fayeed (Adam Rayner) a saga so Moses-like that he might as well have witnessed a burning bush along the way. Bassam was sen...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Designated Survivor”

DESIGNATED SURVIVOR has been running through showrunners like breath mints (a fourth is scheduled to join the show for Season 2, and reportedly every script makes its way through star/executive producer Kiefer Sutherland...

by Mitch Salem

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Finale Review: “The Good Wife”

Will THE GOOD WIFE be remembered as the last great broadcast network drama? It’s impossible to know for sure, but it seems like a good bet. Other shows will make the attempt, of course: ABC’s American C...

by Mitch Salem

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “Tyrant”

TYRANT: Wednesday 10PM on FX FX’s TYRANT has never been as incisive or daring as it could have been, given its incendiary setting in a fictional Middle Eastern nation on the brink of revolution, but it’s a ...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Scandal”

Even by the standards of current network TV, the ratings drop for SCANDAL has been steep and swift. It’s down 50% from where it was 2 seasons ago, and down 30% this season. It’s still one of ABC’s h...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “The Good Wife”

THE GOOD WIFE: Sunday 9PM on CBS In the wasteland of this fall’s collection of lackluster network programming, THE GOOD WIFE is starting to seem less like an exception and more like a miracle. (Even more so, si...

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NIELSENWAR 2014-15 Trailer Review: CBS’s “Madam Secretary”

MADAM SECRETARY: Sunday 8PM on CBS THE FACTS: Tea Leoni plays Elizabeth McCord, a college professor and former CIA analyst unexpectedly named by the President (Keith Carradine)–who used to be her boss at the CI...

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THE SKED Pilot + 1 Review: “Tyrant”

TYRANT: Tuesday 10PM on FX Previously… on TYRANT: Barry Al-Fayeed (Adam Rayner) is a contented Pasadena-area pediatrician–and he’s also Bassam, the younger son of the longtime ruler of a Middle East...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “Designated Survivor”

DESIGNATED SURVIVOR: Wednesday 10PM on ABC – In the Queue ABC’s DESIGNATED SURVIVOR takes great pains to distinguish its version of Kiefer Sutherland from 24‘s Jack Bauer. The show’s Tom Kirkm...

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PREMIERING TONIGHT: SHOWBUZZDAILY Pilot Review – “Madam Secretary”

MADAM SECRETARY: Sunday 8PM on CBS – Potential DVR Alert PLAYERS: Series creator Barbara Hall, a veteran of everything from Northern Exposure to Joan of Arcadia (which she created), and Army Wives to Homeland...

by Mitch Salem

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Tyrant”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Designated Survivor”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Finale Review: “The Good Wife”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “Tyrant”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Scandal”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “The Good Wife”

NIELSENWAR 2014-15 Trailer Review: CBS’s “Madam Secretary”

THE SKED Pilot + 1 Review: “Tyrant”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “Designated Survivor”

PREMIERING TONIGHT: SHOWBUZZDAILY Pilot Review – “Madam Secretary”

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