Posts Tagged ‘summer TV’
 

 

THE SKED Pilot + 1 Review: “Power”

  POWER:  Saturday 9PM on Starz Previously… on POWER:  James “Ghost” St. Patrick (Omari Hardwick) is secretly one of New York’s most successful narcotics distributors, as well as the owner of the ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED Season Premiere Review: “Suits”

  SUITS:  Wednesday 9PM on USA Because of the way USA scheduled last season’s episodes of SUITS, it feels as though Season 3 barely ended (it was just 2 months ago), and now Season 4 is already here.  The events of...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED Season Premiere Review: “Graceland”

  GRACELAND:  Wednesday 10PM on USA GRACELAND is USA’s attempt to meld its jokey procedural sensibility (and that of series creator Jeff Eastin, who previously created White Collar for the network) to the kind of hi...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED Series Premiere Review: “Murder In the First”

  MURDER IN THE FIRST:  Monday 10PM on TNT – If Nothing Else Is On… Steven Bochco practically invented modern television with Hill Street Blues and NYPD Blue, so even though it’s been a while since his g...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED Season Premiere Review: “Major Crimes”

  MAJOR CRIMES:  Monday 9PM on TNT MAJOR CRIMES returned for its third season tonight with a grim but unremarkable hour.  The episode, written by Co-Executive Producer Michael Alaimo and directed by David McWhirter, tipp...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED Series Premiere Review: “Chasing Life”

  CHASING LIFE:  Tuesday 9PM on ABCFamily – Change the Channel ABCFamily is launching all its summer shows over the next week or two, so it appears to be luck rather than careful planning that’s resulted in it...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED Pilot + 1 Review: “Halt and Catch Fire”

  HALT AND CATCH FIRE:  Sunday 10PM on AMC Previously… on HALT AND CATCH FIRE:  In 1983 Texas, the enigmatic, charismatic Joe MacMillan (Lee Pace) comes to sleepy Cardiff Electric and manipulates the company into g...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED Season Premiere Review: “Orange Is the New Black” (Episodes 1-3)

  One of the ways the emergence of Netflix as an important programming platform has changed the way we regard “television” is in its obliteration of the concept of a series “season” as something tha...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED Pilot + 1 Review: “Crossbones”

  CROSSBONES:  Friday 10PM on NBC Previously… on CROSSBONES:  The infamous pirate Edward Teague AKA Blackbeard (John Malkovich), has established an island kingdom for himself on New Providence in the Caribbean, wit...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED Pilot + 1 Review: “The Night Shift”

  THE NIGHT SHIFT:  Tuesday 10PM on NBC Previously… on THE NIGHT SHIFT:  On the 7PM-7AM shift at San Antonio Medical Center, Dr. TC Callahan (Eoin Macken) is the rebellious yet brilliant ex-Army medic who’s w...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED Series Premiere Review: “Crossbones”

  CROSSBONES:  Friday 10PM on NBC – Potential DVR Alert Viewers of Starz’s Black Sails will find much that’s familiar in NBC’s summer pirate adventure CROSSBONES.  We’re back in the Caribbea...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED Pilot + 1 Review: “Gang-Related”

  GANG-RELATED:  Thursday 9PM on FOX Previously… on GANG-RELATED:  Ryan Lopez (Ramon Rodriguez) is an LAPD detective on the city’s inter-agency anti-gang task force, working for Sam Chapel (Terry O’Quin...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

PREMIERING TONIGHT: THE SKED Pilot Review: “Gang-Related”

  GANG-RELATED:  Thursday 9PM on FOX – Change the Channel I think my favorite cliche in the pilot for FOX’s burn-off drama GANG-RELATED–out of, believe me, plenty of choices–comes at the end of an ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED Series Premiere Review: “24: Live Another Day”

  24: LIVE ANOTHER DAY:  Monday 9PM on FOX – DVR Alert Jack Bauer didn’t speak until 40 minutes into the first hour of tonight’s 24: LIVE ANOTHER DAY premiere.  It’s not that he wasn’t aroun...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED: NBC Summer Schedule

  NBC has announced an unusually robust slate of scripted programming for summer 2014–although, since 3 of the shows were originally ordered for airing during the regular season and didn’t make it onto the sche...
by Mitch Salem