HOMELAND: Sunday 9PM on Showtime The obsessive charts are back up on Carrie Mathison’s living room wall, and while that may not be good news for Carrie, it’s great for the rest of us. After a divisive sec...
THE GOOD WIFE: Sunday 9PM/9:30PM (depending on football) on CBS THE GOOD WIFE lost a step in an uneven fourth season that included botched characters (Kalinda’s husband, the friend/foe played by Maura Tierney) a...
REVENGE: Sunday 9PM on ABC REVENGE went off the rails last season, both creatively and in the ratings (its Season 2 finale managed just a 1.7). When it was over, series creator Mike Kelley found himself bumped off hi...
As the respect and stature given to TV drama has increased, so has the pressure to deliver a perfect ending. Series finales are not only expected to satisfyingly end the major storylines and round out the lives of the ...
ONCE UPON A TIME: Sunday 8PM on ABC The Season 3 premiere of ONCE UPON A TIME didn’t step foot in Storybrooke, nor did it feature any flashbacks to pre-curse incarnations of the protagonists. Whether this was a...
Read All Our Fall Pilot Reports here and Midseason Pilot Reports here. BETRAYAL: Sunday 10PM on ABC – If Nothing Else Is On… BETRAYAL is certainly on brand for ABC. Its pilot, just like the one for Reve...
OPENINGS: Once it became clear that the predicted $40M wasn’t going to happen, CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2 (Sony) badly wanted to claim a $35M opening, and so it did. Actually hitting that number will ...
STUDIO SCORECARD. In the worldwide studio rankings for 2013 to date, the weekly changes look much higher than normal. Most of those increases are a function of some September films not being fully counted in the yearly totals...
Based on Friday’s and Saturday’s grosses, Weekend #39 of 2013 looks like an okay $98 million for the top 12 films, up 5% from the average for the same weekend the past few years. Opening at 4,001 theaters Friday, C...
MASTERS OF SEX: Sunday 10PM on Showtime – Potential DVR Alert After the macho angst of Ray Donovan and–notwithstanding its excellence–the heavy going of Homeland, Showtime smartly changes pace with MA...
After almost 4 decades (!) on the air, it’s a little silly to describe any given SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE episode, or even season, as “critical” or “vital.” Nevertheless, this is a big transiti...
OPENINGS: CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2 (Sony) had an even softer Friday than the early numbers claimed with $9.3M. That’s barely ahead of the first Cloudy‘s $8.1M, and sequels tend to be more front...
Nothing hit a 2 rating on the first Friday of the new season. CBS: HAWAII 5-0 had an underwhelming Friday debut with 1.5, down 0.3 from last year’s Monday start. It was even with the premiere of UNDERCOVER BOSS...