THE SKED: NBC GOES BACK TO PRESCHOOL
> In recent years, the broadcast networks have largely outsourced their Saturday morning kids’ programming business. Despite decades of history in the area, the networks have determined that news and sports are much...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Campaign”
THE CAMPAIGN: Not At Any Price – Abstain THE CAMPAIGN, like many a politician before it, tries to be all things to all people, and winds up delivering almost nothing. There was reason to be hopeful about The Camp...
THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Parks & Recreation”
PARKS & RECREATION: Thursday 9:30PM on NBC WHERE WE WERE: Celebrating the election of Leslie Knope to the Pawnee, Indiana City Council. But a little concerned that her new post, and the new job in Washington DC...
THE SKED MIDSEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Scandal”
SCANDAL has been having a barn-burner of a Season 2, emerging as a pulpier, crazier Homeland (not that Homeland hasn’t been pretty crazy the last couple of weeks), a DC-set melodrama where everybody is lying to som...
THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “The Good Wife”
THE GOOD WIFE: Sunday 9PM on CBS WHERE WE WERE: Waiting for Kalinda’s door to open. She (Archie Panjabi) was calmly waiting inside with a gun, waiting for her former husband, a man who even Kalinda thinks is da...
THE SKED’S PILOT + 4 REVIEW: “The Newsroom”
We’re at the halfway point in Season 1 of THE NEWSROOM (so, yay!), and Aaron Sorkin celebrated by firing almost his entire writing staff. (In a delightfully self-referential touch that TMI Magazine would apprecia...
THE SKED REVIEW: SNL Weekend Update Thursday
When football teams have a late game on Sunday and then have to play in the next Thursday night game, they sometimes blame a loss on the short week and limited practice. Lorne Michaels and the SNL writing staff may wan...
THE SKED Netflix Review: “House of Cards” Season 2 (Eps 1-3)
Viewers familiar with the original British HOUSE OF CARDS won’t be stunned by The Thing That Happens in the first episode of its Netflix second season, but it will start things off with a bang for those who aren...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Ides of March”
THE IDES OF MARCH: Watch It At Home – An Excellent Play Becomes a Merely Good Movie The Ides of March, one of the most eagerly awaited of this year’s festival crop, is more entertaining than i...
SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Finale Review: “Scandal”
The bar for crazy was so high when it came to the series finale of SCANDAL that its general sense of anti-climax may well have been inevitable Not Shonda Rhimes’s biggest hit (that would be Grey’s Anatomy, ...
THE SKED’S PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “Homeland”
> A lot can happen between the creation of a TV pilot in the spring and production of episodes for the regular season: a writing/producing team is hired, audience focus groups weigh in, networks and studios (which may hav...
THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Scandal”
SCANDAL: Thursday 10PM on ABC WHERE WE WERE: Washington DC, where Olivia Pope (Kerry Washington) is the best fixer around. Not a lawyer (although she has a law degree), not a publicist (although she’s expert ...
THE SKED’S PILOT + 3 REVIEW: “The Newsroom”… and “Broadcast News”
HBO has been airing a spiffy HD edition of James L. Brooks’ 1987 BROADCAST NEWS in its recent rotation (it’s next scheduled for July 20 and 24), and that makes sense, since the Brooks film is one of the ack...
THE SKED REVIEW: “Boss”
> BOSS: Fridays 10PM on Starz – Potential DVR Alert BOSS is Starz’s bid to be taken seriously as a pay-TV producer of original programming. Up until now, Starz has been both successful (Spartacus) and no...