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THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Scandal”

The people on SCANDAL just can’t talk fast enough. There’s so much invective they need to get out of their mouths, so much self-justification and passionate, furious strategizing, so much spin, that the wor...

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THE SKED REVIEW: SNL with Seth MacFarlane

The opening 15 minutes of the 38th season premiere of SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE (fun fact: Barack Obama was 14 years old when the show first went on the air) set a blazing pace that the rest of the show, alas, couldn’t...

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THE BIJOU REVIEW: “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close”

> EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE: Worth A Ticket – Earns Its Tears If EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE accomplishes nothing else–and it actually accomplishes quite a bit–it’s served t...

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THE SKED’S PILOT + 2 REVIEW: “The Newsroom”

Previously… On THE NEWSROOM: Will McAvoy (Jeff Daniels) and his executive producer Mackenzie MacHale (Emily Mortimer), with the support and encouragement of News Division head Charlie Skinner (Sam Waterston) are ...

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THE SKED PILOT REVIEW: “Political Animals”

POLITICAL ANIMALS: Sunday 10PM on USA – Potential DVR Alert POLITICAL ANIMALS is a lot more Brothers & Sisters than it is The West Wing, which makes sense because it’s the work of Greg Berlanti, ...

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THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “The Good Wife”

It’s a little churlish, in the face of tonight’s mostly splendid Season 4 finale of THE GOOD WIFE, to point out that for the most part, the rest of the season didn’t quite live up to its high level of ...

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THE BIJOU REVIEW: “J. Edgar”

Our Review / 5 - Terrible

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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “The Company You Keep”

As soon as Robert Redford had enough clout to start generating his own movies, he began starring in and often producing some of the best politically-themed films of the 1970s, including The Candidate, Three Days of the Condor�...

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THE SKED PILOT REVIEW: “Veep”

> VEEP: Sundays 10PM on HBO – Potential DVR Alert Although of course it made all the sense in the world to precede tonight’s premiere of its new political comedy VEEP with the trailer for its upcoming p...

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THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Boss”

Few television series have worked so hard to be unlikeable as BOSS. There had been some thought, after its initial off-putting season, that when Starz replaced series creator Farhad Safinia with Dee Johnson as showrunn...

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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...

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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Hunger Games”

Genre: Action

Our Review / 5 - Terrible

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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 SKED’S PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “Veep”

> 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 ...

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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Lincoln”

LINCOLN: Worth A Ticket – The West Wing, Civil War Edition In today’s Hollywood, there aren’t many directors whose names are trademarks. “A Martin Scorsese movie” doesn’t have the ...

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THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Scandal”

THE SKED REVIEW: SNL with Seth MacFarlane

THE BIJOU REVIEW: “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close”

THE SKED’S PILOT + 2 REVIEW: “The Newsroom”

THE SKED PILOT REVIEW: “Political Animals”

THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “The Good Wife”

THE BIJOU REVIEW: “J. Edgar”

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “The Company You Keep”

THE SKED PILOT REVIEW: “Veep”

THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Boss”

THE SKED’S PILOT + 3 REVIEW: “The Newsroom”… and “Broadcast News”

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Hunger Games”

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

THE SKED’S PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “Veep”

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Lincoln”

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