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THE SKED NETFLIX REVIEW: “House of Cards” (Full Season)

It took me just under 6 weeks to get through the 13 hours of HOUSE OF CARDS, the first original Netflix series. That’s a little less than half the time a regular weekly run would have taken, although nowhere near...

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THE SKED PILOT REPORT: Showtime’s “Homeland”

> Disclaimer: Network pilots now in circulation are not necessarily in the form that will air in the Fall. Pilots are often reedited and rescored, and in some cases even recast or reshot. So these critiques sh...

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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...

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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...

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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Hunger Games”

THE HUNGER GAMES: Worth A Ticket – The Odds Are Mostly In Its Favor Now that virtually every blockbuster movie opens in IMAX, going to an IMAX theatre at this time of year provides a de facto trailer festi...

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THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Treme”

TREME: Sunday 10PM on HBO WHERE WE WERE: New Orleans, of course, and hip-deep in the lives of a dozen struggling, striving, stubborn, idiosyncratic natives and recent arrivals. These include the feckless tro...

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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Hunger Games”

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Our Review / 5 - Terrible

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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 SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Veep”

VEEP: Sunday 10PM on HBO You wouldn’t expect Armando Iannucci’s VEEP to change much from season to season, and you’d largely be right. Notwithstanding its four-letter words and bustling cinema verit...

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THE SKED Netflix Review: “House of Cards” Season 2 (Eps 4-7)

House of Cards Season 2 Eps 1-3 Review Here. A 13-hour season may be a bit too much free rein for HOUSE OF CARDS US series creator Beau Willimon, who is enthralled by the intricately devious strategems of politics, but l...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Manhattan”

Audiences of TV drama have the luxury these days of being spoiled, and that raises the question: what separates a great series from one that’s merely very good? WGN America’s MANHATTAN had an original, in...

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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Broken City”

BROKEN CITY: Watch It At Home – Wahlberg and Crowe In An Intriguing But Too Simplistic Thriller Studios love nothing better than predictability, so since Mark Wahlberg had a tidy January hit last year with Contra...

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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...

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THE SKED REVIEW: “Game Change”

> On Saturday night, HBO’s GAME CHANGE scored the network’s highest premiere rating for an original TV-movie in 8 years. (As it always the case with HBO, the movie will be rebroadcast many times, as well as be...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “No”

In 1988, the Chilean military dictatorship headed by General Augusto Pinochet was forced by diplomatic pressure to finally permit a democratic election, in order to prove its claim that the country’s people support...

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THE SKED NETFLIX REVIEW: “House of Cards” (Full Season)

THE SKED PILOT REPORT: Showtime’s “Homeland”

THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “The Good Wife”

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Ides of March”

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Hunger Games”

THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Treme”

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Hunger Games”

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

THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Veep”

THE SKED Netflix Review: “House of Cards” Season 2 (Eps 4-7)

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Manhattan”

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Broken City”

THE SKED MIDSEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Scandal”

THE SKED REVIEW: “Game Change”

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “No”

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