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The Sked: WEDNESDAY Ratings

Wednesday fast national ratings: FOX: American Idol still gives its network an easy win on Wednesday night (the 4.0 adult 18-49 rating doubles second-place ABC’s primetime average).  But the singing competition show just...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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Film Festival

SHOWBUZZDAILY SUNDANCE REVIEW: “Happy Christmas”

  Joe Swanberg, the director, writer and co-star of HAPPY CHRISTMAS, which premiered at Sundance earlier this week, makes Woody Allen look lazy.  He’s had something like a dozen features to his credit since the sta...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY SUNDANCE REVIEW: “The Skeleton Twins”

  Star power makes all the difference  in THE SKELETON TWINS.  Craig Johnson’s dramedy (written with Mark Heyman) takes place in fairly commonplace territory, especially at Sundance:  siblings bound together, whe...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Weekend Box Office Predictions JANUARY 24-25

Weekend #4 of 2014 is looking like $107 million for the top 12 films, up 7% from the average for this weekend the past few years. Opening at around 2,700 theaters Friday (slightly below the 2,886 average theater count for openi...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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The Sked: SUNDAY Cable Ratings 1.19.2014

Female-oriented reality stood atop the cable ranking Sunday night.  Real Housewives Atlanta averaged a 1.58 rating with adults 18-49 at 8:00 pm on Bravo.  With the smaller demographic segments, Real Housewives was strongest w...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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Film Festival

SHOWBUZZDAILY SUNDANCE REVIEW: “The One I Love”

  The trouble with trying to recommend THE ONE I LOVE , written by Justin Lader and directed by Charlie McDowell, is that it’s impossible to describe how clever, surprising and intriguing it turns out to be without...
by Mitch Salem
 
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The Sked: TUESDAY Ratings

Tuesday fast national ratings:
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THE SKED NETWORK SCORECARD – 1/20/14

  Anybody want to debate the importance of a lead-in from The Voice? NBC:  For the second consecutive week, THE BLACKLIST had a reduced, non-Voice lead-in (this week it was the season premiere of HOLLYWOOD GAME NIGHT, its...
by Mitch Salem
 
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The Sked: MONDAY Ratings

Monday fast national ratings:
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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Midseason Finale

THE SKED Season Finale Review: “Sleepy Hollow”

  SLEEPY HOLLOW has grown into one of the (few) pleasant surprises of the fall network season, a keenly judged mix of supernatural folderol, increasingly well-drawn characters and light time-travel comedy.  Enough of a hi...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED NETWORK SCORECARD – 1/19/14

  Things went about as expected on the night of the NFC Championship Game. NBC:  We expect the NFC CHAMPIONSHIP GAME to adjust to 18.8 once west coast timezones are taken into account.  You can find more detail about the foo...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday January 18 and Sunday January 19, 2014. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television popula...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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Pilot Reports

THE SKED Series Premiere Review: “Looking”

  LOOKING:  Sunday 10:30PM on HBO – Worth A Look HBO’s LOOKING is distinctive for the obvious reason that it’s a dramedy about gay characters, of a completely different order than the network universe of...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Reviews

THE SKED Season Finale Review: “Betrayal”

  All the way to the very end, BETRAYAL couldn’t get it right.  Although it hasn’t technically been canceled (as a matter of policy, networks don’t give up their legal rights to shows until the last poss...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Midseason Premiere

THE SKED Season Premiere Review: “The Following”

  THE FOLLOWING:  Monday 9PM on FOX (starting Jan 27) The blood-drenched, increasingly grandiose literary pretensions of THE FOLLOWING grew tiresome by the end of last season’s run.  It seemed like very good news t...
by Mitch Salem
 
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