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2014-15 TV Season

NIELSENWAR 2014-15 Trailer Review: NBC’s “Marry Me”

  MARRY ME:  Tuesday 9PM on NBC THE FACTS:  Happy Endings creator David Caspe reunites with Casey Wilson, one of that show’s stars, for a rom-com that pairs her with Ken Marino, as a longtime couple who finally get...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Reviews

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “Mistresses”

  MISTRESSES:  Monday 10PM on ABC There isn’t much mistressing going on in MISTRESSES at the dawn of the unapologetically frothy summer soap’s 4th season.  Having weathered the loss of marquee star Alyssa Mil...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Film Festival

Toronto Film Festival 2024 Reviews: “Queer” & “Jane Austen Wrecked My Life”

  QUEER (A24 – TBD):  Luca Guadagnino has unearthed glamour in the blood-soaked dance troupe/witches’ coven of Suspiria and the cannibal romance of Bones and All, so it shouldn’t be a surprise that his s...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Reviews

THE SKED’S SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Hart of Dixie”

  HART OF DIXIE:  Tuesday 8PM on CW WHERE WE WERE:  The bedroom of Dr. Zoe Hart (Rachel Bilson) in Bluebell, Alabama, where the New York transfer was finally getting some action after an entire season of dithering.  On ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Reviews

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “You’re the Worst”

  Everyone on Stephen Falk’s FX comedy YOU’RE THE WORST is a wreck, and yet the pieces of the show have fallen together rather neatly.  The series isn’t so much an anti-rom-com as a kicking and screaming...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Pilot Reports

THE SKED Series Premiere Review: “You’re the Worst”

  YOU’RE THE WORST:  Thursday 10:30PM on FX – Worth a Look YOU’RE THE WORST overplays its hand from the start, and its gooey center is all too visible beneath its hard-candy exterior, but it’s stil...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Reviews

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “The Mindy Project”

  THE MINDY PROJECT:  Tuesday 9:30PM on FOX After an uneven season and a half that seemed to slide from one genre and tone to the next on a nearly weekly basis (it’s a rom-com!  it’s a workplace comedy!), lea...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Reviews

SHOWBUZZDAILY “Season” Finale Review: “Hart of Dixie”

  The network is preserving its contractual rights, but the signs are rife that tonight’s HART OF DIXIE was the last we’ll see of the series.  After being banished to Fridays, it was held for midseason, then l...
by Mitch Salem
 
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2014-15 TV Season

THE SKED Fall Pilot Report: ABC’S “Manhattan Love Story”

  MANHATTAN LOVE STORY:  Tuesday 8:30PM on ABC starting September 30 – Change the Channel PLAYERS:  Series creator Jeff Lowell, who’s been a writer/producer on sitcoms going back to Cybill two decades ago, bu...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Midseason Pilots

THE SKED MIDSEASON PILOT REPORT: FOX’s “Us & Them”

  Read All Our Fall Pilot Reports here and Midseason Pilot Reports here. US & THEM:  Midseason TBD on FOX – Potential DVR Alert   FOX’S midseason rom-com US & THEM features two of TV’s most...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Articles

THE BIJOU: Captain America: The First Boxoffice

> The Hollywood Reporter has some rough early numbers for Friday’s boxoffice, and the news looks good for CAPTAIN AMERICA:  THE FIRST AVENGER.  Including Thursday midnight grosses of $4M, it seems to be around $...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Reviews

THE SKED Season Finale Review: “The Newsroom”

It is, to be honest, somewhat difficult to focus on the clatter of THE NEWSROOM on the same night that Breaking Bad aired one of the most devastating episodes in its history–which made it one of the most devastating h...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Fall Pilots

THE SKED Fall Pilot Report: NBC’s “A to Z”

  A TO Z:  Thursday 9:30PM on NBC starting October 2 – If Nothing Else is On… PLAYERS:  Series creator Ben Queen (he wrote the script for Cars 2).  Non-writing producers Rashida Jones and Will McCormick.  S...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Pilot + 1

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

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...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Reviews

ShowbuzzDaily Series Finale Review: “The Catch”

  No one can say THE CATCH didn’t try.  Today’s cancellation announcement concluded two seasons of seemingly constant adjustment and revision (probably attributable in part to ABC’s commitment to non-wri...
by Mitch Salem
 
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