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SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “Official Secrets” & “Greener Grass”

OFFICIAL SECRETS (IFC): Film festivals have a way of creating unintended double features when thematically similar films are seen in close proximity, and it’s hard to watch Gavin Hood’s Official Secrets wit...

by Mitch Salem

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “Scandal”

SCANDAL: Thursday 9PM on ABC How tough is Olivia Pope (Kerry Washington), newly minted as both Chief of Staff to President Mellie Grant (Bellamy Young), and head of secret intelligence and torture bureau B613? As Sea...

by Mitch Salem

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Quarry”

Cinemax’s QUARRY felt like a pulpier version of Rectify, and it came by that lineage naturally: although based on a series of crime novels by Max Allan Collins, and with all 8 episodes often stunningly directed b...

by Mitch Salem

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “Tyrant”

TYRANT: Tuesday 10PM on FX Season 1 of TYRANT was a mess. It was rebooted and somewhat restaffed after the pilot was shot, and then continued to be changed on the fly, making for a series that seemed to shift tone an...

by Mitch Salem

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Pilot + 2 Review: “State of Affairs”

STATE OF AFFAIRS: Monday 10PM on NBC Previously… on STATE OF AFFAIRS: Charleston–call her Charlie–Tucker (Katherine Heigl) is the CIA analyst whose task it is to put together the President’s D...

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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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THE SKED Season Finale Review: “Tyrant”

TYRANT wasn’t the summer’s worst show, but it’s been the most piercing disappointment of the mini-season, wasting a potentially thrilling premise–behind the scenes at a Middle Eastern military d...

by Mitch Salem

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THE SKED Fall Pilot Report: NBC’s “State of Affairs”

STATE OF AFFAIRS: Monday 10PM on NBC starting November 17 – If Nothing Else Is On… PLAYERS: Star and Executive Producer Katherine Heigl, who developed the series for herself and pitched it to all the netw...

by Mitch Salem

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THE SKED Pilot Report: “Crisis”

Read All Our Fall Pilot Reports here and Midseason Pilot Reports here. CRISIS: Sunday 10PM on NBC – If Nothing Else is On… Funny story. Remember how last fall, there was a serialized thriller about a high...

by Mitch Salem

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THE SKED Season Finale Review: “Hostages”

The failures of HOSTAGES were many, and they separate into two dimensions. One–the more important to CBS–was commercial; the show proved to be dead in the water from the night it premiered against the launc...

by Mitch Salem

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THE SKED Pilot + 1 Review: “Hostages”

HOSTAGES: Monday 10PM on CBS Previously… on HOSTAGES: Ellen Sanders (Toni Collette) is a surgeon scheduled to operate on the President of the United States (James Naughton). The night before the surgery, her ...

by Mitch Salem

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “Official Secrets” & “Greener Grass”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “Scandal”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Quarry”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “Tyrant”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Pilot + 2 Review: “State of Affairs”

PREMIERING TONIGHT: SHOWBUZZDAILY Pilot Review – “Madam Secretary”

THE SKED Season Finale Review: “Tyrant”

THE SKED Fall Pilot Report: NBC’s “State of Affairs”

THE SKED Pilot Report: “Crisis”

THE SKED Season Finale Review: “Hostages”

THE SKED Pilot + 1 Review: “Hostages”

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