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THE SKED’S PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “Beauty and the Beast”

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 ha...

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THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Suits”

SUITS – Thursdays 10PM on USA WHERE WE WERE: On a precipice. Mike Ross (Patrick J. Adams) was a hustler with limited formal education but a photographic memory. He used his talents, among other things, to tak...

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THE SKED’S BUSTED PILOT THEATRE: “Identity”

> See A Word About Busted Pilots IDENTITY is so clearly a Jerry-Bruckheimer-for-CBS procedural that it comes as a shock to realize that it was neither produced by Bruckheimer nor developed for CBS. In fact, Mark Gordon...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “Magnum, P.I.”

MAGNUM, P.I.: Monday 9PM on CBS As everyone knows, the 2018-19 CBS TV season has turned out to be the final one overseen by Les Moonves, the longtime network mogul ousted after allegations of sexual misconduct. It...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere TV Review: “Wisdom Of the Crowd”

Game WISDOM OF THE CROWD: Sunday 8PM on CBS – Change the Channel CBS’s WISDOM OF THE CROWD is for the people who thought the problem with FOX’s canceled APB was that it didn’t star Jeremy Piven. Once...

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THE SKED’S SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Person of Interest”

PERSON OF INTEREST: Thursday 9PM on CBS WHERE WE WERE: Watching Harold Finch (Michael Emerson), the secretive billionaire creator of the super-surveillance system that keeps tabs on all potential criminals and victim...

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THE SKED SERIES PREMIERE REVIEW: “King & Maxwell”

KING & MAXWELL: Monday 10PM on TNT – Change the Channel Jon Tenney and Rebecca Romijn are an attractive, appealing pair of series leads, but they’re not enough to make the markedly sub-par new procedura...

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THE SKED’S PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “Longmire”

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “Rebel”

REBEL: Thursday 10PM on ABC Krista Vernoff is one of network TV’s most prized showrunners. She’s successfully guided Shonda Rhimes’s Grey’s Anatomy into a remarkable 17th season of success (wh...

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THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “The Killing”

After three seasons, THE KILLING is still hard to get a fix on. Technically it’s a murder mystery, but efficiently and intelligently spinning out crime stories is what it’s least good at–its narrative...

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THE SKED’S PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “The Mob Doctor”

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THE SKED’S PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “Emily Owens, MD”

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THE SKED SERIES PREMIERE REVIEW: “Motive”

MOTIVE: Thursday 9PM on ABC – Change the Channel It’s a paradoxical truth that when TV’s “summer” begins, cable networks get adventurous and creative, and the US broadcast networks get gen...

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THE SKED Season Premiere Review: “Rookie Blue”

It’s no small thing to be a scripted success on the broadcast networks during the summer, and while it’s never been a breakout hit, the fact that the Canadian series ROOKIE BLUE has made it to a 4th season on...

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THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Motive”

Even among procedurals, ABC’s Canadian summer series MOTIVE was a bare-bones example of the genre–it was virtually abstract. The show had a single gimmick: at the start of each episode, the killer and vic...

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THE SKED’S PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “Beauty and the Beast”

THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Suits”

THE SKED’S BUSTED PILOT THEATRE: “Identity”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “Magnum, P.I.”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere TV Review: “Wisdom Of the Crowd”

THE SKED’S SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Person of Interest”

THE SKED SERIES PREMIERE REVIEW: “King & Maxwell”

THE SKED’S PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “Longmire”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “Rebel”

THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “The Killing”

THE SKED’S PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “The Mob Doctor”

THE SKED’S PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “Emily Owens, MD”

THE SKED SERIES PREMIERE REVIEW: “Motive”

THE SKED Season Premiere Review: “Rookie Blue”

THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Motive”

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