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SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “LA To Vegas”

  LA TO VEGAS:  Tuesday 9PM on FOX – In the Queue Broadcast TV kicks off its new scripted series year with FOX’s well-paced LA TO VEGAS, a mostly retro workplace sitcom with a small twist:  Lon Zimmet’...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist”

  ZOEY’S EXTRAORDINARY PLAYLIST – Sundays 10PM on NBC (starting February 16) In a broadcast network landscape musty with procedurals and the mildest possible sitcoms, NBC deserves credit for commissioning Austi...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Pilot Reports

THE SKED SERIES PREMIERE REVIEW: “The White Queen”

  THE WHITE QUEEN – Saturday 9PM on Starz – Worth A Look Starz’s THE WHITE QUEEN is, apart from a bit of nudity (this is pay cable, after all), a rather old-fashioned historical bodice-ripper.  The bodic...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Reviews

THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Magic City”

  MAGIC CITY:  Friday 9PM on Starz You’d have thought, after the low-rated, little-buzzed first season of MAGIC CITY, that both Starz and series creator Mitch Glazer would have recognized the series needed to return...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Dead of Summer”

  TV’s summer of 2016 was notable for a splendidly entertaining and emotionally satisfying 1980s-themed horror thriller.  Unfortunately for Freeform and DEAD OF SUMMER, it was Netflix’s Stranger Things.  Dead...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Pilot Reports

SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “Nancy Drew”

  NANCY DREW:  Wednesday 9PM on CW Although NANCY DREW doesn’t hail from CW’s go-to producer Greg Berlanti (its showrunners are Gossip Girl‘s Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, who created the show with...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “Beauty & the Beast”

  BEAUTY & THE BEAST:  Thursday 9PM on CW The opening hour of the fourth and final season of CW’s BEAUTY & THE BEAST was practically meta, what with the characters seeming to spend half the episode complaini...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Pilot Reports

SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “The Brink”

  THE BRINK:  Sunday 10:30PM on HBO – If Nothing Else Is On… THE BRINK will make you appreciate the precision and verbal dexterity of Veep.  Actually, although it’s an HBO political satire, The Brink ge...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Pilot Reports

SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “Vice Principals”

  VICE PRINCIPALS:  Sunday 10:30PM on HBO – In the Queue Your feelings about HBO’s new VICE PRINCIPALS are likely to be determined by your instinctive reaction to the name Danny McBride.  For a decade now, si...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED Season Premiere Review: “Scandal”

  SCANDAL:  Thursday 10PM on ABC Sex is both currency and kryptonite on SCANDAL, a tool and a compulsion.  Shonda Rhimes’s series is coming off a genuinely phenomenal second season, one which saw its ratings rise b...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Pilot Reports

THE SKED Series Premiere Review: “The Spoils of Babylon”

  THE SPOILS OF BABYLON:  Thursday 10PM on IFC – Change the Channel A lot of talent has been harnessed for IFC’s miniseries parody THE SPOILS OF BABYLON, starting with performer/producers Will Ferrell (whose F...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY Review: “Saturday Night Live” with Bill Hader

  Bill Hader’s return to SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE had everything:  a singing monologue; a celebrity cameo (from Harvey Fierstein); a more-than-cameo assist from Kristen Wiig (Hader’s co-star in the current The Ske...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Articles

SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “Burden of Truth”

  BURDEN OF TRUTH:  Wednesday 8PM on CW This summer’s crop of original broadcast dramas (Reverie, Take Two, The Outpost) has been notably bad, and in that context, CW’s new Canadian import, the straightforward...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Pilot Reports

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Grey’s Anatomy”

  GREY’S ANATOMY is no longer Shonda Rhimes’ brightest, shiniest toy, but in a way her skills as a producer are most evident in the way that her first hit hums along, now in its 2d decade on the air.  ThatR...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Midseason Premiere

SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “Dice”

  DICE:  Sunday 9:30PM on Showtime – Change the Channel The journey of Andrew Dice Clay from an explosively successful poster child (and, many would say, cynical exploiter) of comedy political incorrectness to a lon...
by Mitch Salem
 
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