Posts Tagged ‘revenge’
 

 

THE SKED’S Pre-Upfront Projected ABC Fall Schedule

  See Also:  THE SKED’s Pre-Upfront Projected NBC Fall 2013 Schedule                  THE SKED’s Pre-Upfront Projected FOX Fall 2013 Schedule We’re continuing with SHOWBUZZDAILY‘s v...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

The Sked: WEDNESDAY RATINGS February 29

>American Idol edged down again this week, but the rate of decline is slowing.  The Wednesday edition appears to be locking in on a 5 rating or just below.  Meanwhile, ABC bounced back from last week and is approachin...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

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

> 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...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED’S WEDNESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 1/18/12

> AMERICAN IDOL returned to the schedule, towering over everything… except its own past. FOX:  Idol came back with a 7.4, which naturally squashed all its competition.  In fact, it beat the ratings of the other ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED’S SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Revenge”

  REVENGE:  Sunday 9PM on ABC WHERE WE WERE:  Discovering that the long-vanished mother of Emily Thorne (Emily VanCamp), who’s really Amanda Clarke (don’t get us started), is actually alive.  This was among ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED @ PALEYFEST 2012: “Revenge”

> Despite ABC’s attempts to claim otherwise, REVENGE is more “hittish” than true hit.  Although it premiered with strong ratings in the low 3s, it’s since come down to numbers in the mid-2s, usually...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Professor Marston & The Wonder Women” & “In the Fade”

  PROFESSOR MARSTON AND THE WONDER WOMEN (Annapurna – Oct. 13):  In the hothouse of a film festival, movies that are unrelated inevitably begin to collide with each other in the viewer’s mind.  So it’s...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED: Wednesday Ratings – Network Scorecard – 10/26/11

> It was a great night to be ABC. ABC:  With the World Series tricking FOX, it was all treat for the Alphabet.  Noteworthy in the general wave of success was that HAPPY ENDINGS shot to a 3.5, and while that won’...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

The Sked: FALL RATINGS PREDICTIONS — SUNDAY Night

Thanks to football, Sunday nights in the fall can be very misleading.  NBC will walk away with the night between September and December with an astounding 6.5 rating each Sunday in prime time during the NFL season.  For 18 we...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

THE SKED’S WEDNESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 1/25/12

> Welcome back to Network Scorecard, where we consider the perplexing case of AMERICAN IDOL. FOX:  It’s now clear that the biggest story of the 2011-12 television season is the slump in established reality-competitio...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED’S SUNDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 10/7/12

On a night when a pulse-pounding hour of HOMELAND conclusively answered the question “Can this season be as good as the first?” (the answer is Yes), the broadcast networks continued their fall in more ways than one....
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

The Sked: WEDNESDAY RATINGS September 28

>Put ABC’s Suburgatory in the conditional win column, while Revenge is on a watch list to see where it settles.  FOX’s The X Factor suffered a decline in week two, but the Simon Cowell performance show still po...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

THE SKED: ABC MAY FINALES

> ABC has announced its schedule of season finales for May: May 1:  LAST MAN STANDING May 6:  GCB May 7:  CASTLE May 13:  ONCE UPON A TIME               DESPERATE HOUSEWIVE...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Reviews: “Promising Young Woman,” “Four Good Days” & “Zola”

  PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN (Focus/Universal – April 17):  Emerald Fennell’s feature-film writing/directing debut has antecedents as old as the 1973 TV-movie The Girl Most Likely To… (co-written by Joan Rive...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED: Wednesday Ratings – Network Scorecard – 11/2/11

> After 2 nights of sinking numbers, stability returned to the ratings on Wednesday. ABC:  All in all, a good night.  The first half of the evening was down a tenth or so here and there, but the network got help where...
by Mitch Salem