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THE SKED PILOT REVIEW: ‘Hunted”

HUNTED: Friday 10PM on Cinemax – Potential DVR Alert On the same night that coincidentally brought the season premiere of Nikita, we have a new series that treads similar ground, both centering on gorgeous, betra...

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THE SKED’S PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “Last Resort”

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...

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THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Rizzoli & Isles”

RIZZOLI & ISLES: Tuesday 9PM on TNT TNT set the last cornerstone of its extensive but unambitious summer schedule in place with tonight’s return of RIZZOLI & ISLES, one of the network’s mainstays, n...

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THE SKED PILOT REPORT: Showtime’s “Homeland”

> 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...

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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Puncture”

PUNCTURE: Worth A Ticket – A Bracingly Dark Ride No one is going to see PUNCTURE in theaters, and that’s a shame, because unaccountably, it’s one of the best pictures around. “Unaccount...

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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Margin Call”

MARGIN CALL: Worth A Ticket – The Real Sequel to”Wall Street” MARGIN CALL is smarter and more gripping than Moneyball and The Ides of March combined–and those are two smart, grippi...

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THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “King & Maxwell”

KING & MAXWELL isn’t the kind of show you’d particularly expect to see evolve between its premiere and season finale, and in fact it didn’t. That’s too bad, because the TNT series, developed...

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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy”

TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY: Worth A Ticket – An Epic of Betrayals John LeCarre is (I guess one should say “arguably”) the greatest of all spy novelists, and his 1974 TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, ...

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PREMIERING TONIGHT–THE SKED’S FALL PILOT REPORT: FOX’s “The Mob Doctor”

THE MOB DOCTOR: Monday 9PM on FOX – Worth A Look THE MOB DOCTOR may be the busiest pilot of the season. The idea hatched by creators Josh Berman and Rob Wright (previously of Drop Dead Diva and a host of...

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THE SKED MINISERIES REVIEW: “Coma”

Not every novel needs to be a 4-hour miniseries, and a good example is A&E’s new version of COMA. Robin Cook’s novel was capably filmed in 1978 by Michael Crichton in a brisk 113 minutes, and extending ...

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THE SKED PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “The Americans”

THE AMERICANS: Wednesday 10PM on FX 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 weig...

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THE SKED PILOT REVIEW: ‘Hunted”

THE SKED’S PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “Last Resort”

THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Rizzoli & Isles”

THE SKED PILOT REPORT: Showtime’s “Homeland”

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Puncture”

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Margin Call”

THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “King & Maxwell”

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy”

PREMIERING TONIGHT–THE SKED’S FALL PILOT REPORT: FOX’s “The Mob Doctor”

THE SKED MINISERIES REVIEW: “Coma”

THE SKED PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “The Americans”

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