SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “Roswell, New Mexico”
ROSWELL, NEW MEXICO – Tuesday 9PM on CW CW has gone back to its WB/UPN roots for ROSWELL, NEW MEXICO, a reboot and update of the Roswell series that debuted on the first of those networks in 1999, then moved to the...
THE SKED’S PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “Mistresses”
MISTRESSES: Monday 10PM on ABC Previously… on MISTRESSES: A group of friends are all enmeshed, one way or another, in wayward sex, including Savannah (Alyssa Milano), a lawyer who compensated for the woes of ha...
THE SKED PILOT REPORT: The CW’s “Hart of Dixie” – PREMIERING TONIGHT
> 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...
THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Whitney”
> And so we come to the age-old query: after 6 months and 22 half-hours of television, has WHITNEY gotten any better? Well, it’s changed. A revisit to the show on the occasion of its season finale, written by ...
THE SKED’S PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “Deception”
DECEPTION: Monday 10PM on NBC 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, ...
THE SKED MIDSEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Beauty & the Beast”
The midseason finale of the purported romantic thriller BEAUTY & THE BEAST delivered almost all romance, no thrills, as it continues to have only a glancing relationship with its title. Plotting has been this show...
THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Army Wives”
Even though nothing particularly thrilling happened on this seventh season of ARMY WIVES, it was a crucial season for Lifetime’s veteran drama. The show completed the reboot it had begun in Season 6, and assuming...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY LA FILM FEST REVIEW: “Ruby Sparks”
RUBY SPARKS: Worth A Ticket – A Narrative Feat Woody Allen is one of the most influential figures in modern independent film, but his ghost is usually evident in the many romantic comedy-dramas we get each...
SHOWBUZZDAILY Pilot + 1 Review: “The Affair”
THE AFFAIR: Sunday 10PM on Showtime Previously… on THE AFFAIR: Several years from now, Noah (Dominic West) and Alison (Ruth Wilson) sit in police interrogation rooms and separately recount, in connection with a...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Rust and Bone”
Jacques Audiard doesn’t do sentimental. His last film, A Prophet, had the clear-eyed view of crime and the dramatic heft of a French version of “The Wire,” and his new and very different drama RUST & B...