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THE SKED’S MIDSEASON RETURN: “The Secret Circle”

> After a hiatus so long that it seemed as though CW had found its own witchcraft to create more repeats of THE SECRET CIRCLE than there’d been original episodes to start, the series finally returned to original episodes....

by Mitch Salem

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “The Vampire Diaries”

At the close of its 6th season, THE VAMPIRE DIARIES finds itself at a crossroads. The ratings are way down, and for the first time since it premiered, the series isn’t one of CW’s biggest hits, but just a m...

by Mitch Salem

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “Charmed”

CHARMED: Sunday 9PM on CW CW’s reboot of CHARMED wants to be a lighthearted supernatural romp, but it also seeks to push as many topical buttons as it possibly can. So while the basic story of a trio of young w...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “The Originals”

Season 4 of THE ORIGINALS had the chance to emerge from the shadow of its departing parent The Vampire Diaries–there was even a 5-year time jump to distance the two shows–but it didn’t really happen. ...

by Mitch Salem

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THE SKED Series Premiere Review: “Witches Of East End”

WITCHES OF EAST END: Sunday 10PM on Lifetime – Potential DVR Alert The supernatural serial isn’t exactly a neglected genre on TV–this week alone brings the season debuts of American Horror Story and T...

by Mitch Salem

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Penny Dreadful”

In its second season, John Logan’s gothic horror mash-up PENNY DREADFUL remained an elaborate conceit that pays off only from time to time. Logan has gathered together a host of characters for his saga. Some hail from...

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THE SKED Season Finale Review: “American Horror Story: Coven”

This year’s COVEN season of AMERICAN HORROR STORY was as cohesive as the proudly bizarre series is ever likely to get. That entailed a slight shortage of the WTF variety moments that have made the two previous ...

by Mitch Salem

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “Blinded By The Light” & “Judy and Punch”

BLINDED BY THE LIGHT (New Line/Warners): Sundance was somewhat awash in feel-good movies this year, which is unusual but not unprecedented. One of the most successful in previous years was 2002’s Bend It Like B...

by Mitch Salem

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THE SKED Pilot + 1 Review: “Sleepy Hollow”

SLEEPY HOLLOW: Monday 9PM on FOX Previously… on SLEEPY HOLLOW: Remember Ichabod Crane, from junior high reading lists? Well, he’s back. Really back, as in returned from the semi-dead state he’d ...

by Mitch Salem

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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Beautiful Creatures”

BEAUTIFUL CREATURES: Watch It At Home – Many Witches, Little Magic BEAUTIFUL CREATURES can’t be dismissed as merely an overlong TV episode meant for the CW, but it never really comes together, either. Ric...

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THE SKED Season Premiere Review: “American Horror Story – Coven”

AMERICAN HORROR STORY – COVEN: Wednesday 10PM on FX Caged and tortured slaves, mid-coitus spontaneous brain aneurisms and gang rape aside, the COVEN season of AMERICAN HORROR STORY was relatively restrained in it...

by Mitch Salem

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THE SKED Pilot + 1 Review: “Witches of East End”

WITCHES OF EAST END: Sunday 10PM on Lifetime Previously… on WITCHES OF EAST END: Joanna Beauchamp (Julia Ormand) is an immortal witch with a family curse. Over and over again, she bears her daughters, free-sp...

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THE SKED Season Finale Review: “Salem”

Sometimes one piece of casting is what it takes to turn a TV series around, and for SALEM, that was the arrival, about midway through the season’s 13 episodes, of Stephen Lang as the Reverend Increase Mather, fathe...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “Midnight, Texas”

MIDNIGHT, TEXAS: Monday 10PM on NBC – Change the Channel NBC’s summer series MIDNIGHT, TEXAS is a horror, all right. It’s based on novels by True Blood author Charlaine Harris, and the idea was plai...

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THE SKED PILOT REPORT: The CW’s “The Secret Circle”

> 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...

by Mitch Salem

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THE SKED’S MIDSEASON RETURN: “The Secret Circle”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “The Vampire Diaries”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “Charmed”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “The Originals”

THE SKED Series Premiere Review: “Witches Of East End”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Penny Dreadful”

THE SKED Season Finale Review: “American Horror Story: Coven”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “Blinded By The Light” & “Judy and Punch”

THE SKED Pilot + 1 Review: “Sleepy Hollow”

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Beautiful Creatures”

THE SKED Season Premiere Review: “American Horror Story – Coven”

THE SKED Pilot + 1 Review: “Witches of East End”

THE SKED Season Finale Review: “Salem”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “Midnight, Texas”

THE SKED PILOT REPORT: The CW’s “The Secret Circle”

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