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SHOWBUZZDAILY Pilot + 1 Review: “Designated Survivor”

  DESIGNATED SURVIVOR:  Wednesday 10PM on ABC Previously… on DESIGNATED SURVIVOR:  When the US government gathers in a single location, one low-ranking official is kept apart in case of catastrophe.  Thus Secretar...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Articles

BEHIND THE WEEKEND BOXOFFICE – 3/17/13

  OPENINGS:  $17.1M for THE CALL (TriStar/Sony) is more than the movie cost to produce (although it won’t pay for the marketing), and sets the Halle Berry vehicle up to be a modest hit.  However, there’s no ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Pilot + 1

THE SKED Pilot + 1 Review: “Chasing Life”

  CHASING LIFE:  Tuesday 9PM on ABCFamily Previously… on CHASING LIFE:  Very inconveniently, 24-year old aspiring Boston reporter April Carver (Italia Ricci) has just been diagnosed with leukemia.  The timing coul...
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Articles

SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Sunday 11.27.2022 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED

BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  The new special MICKEY SAVES CHRISTMAS at 0.28 was followed by a rerun of OLAF’S FROZEN CHRISTMAS at 0.35.  An original MAGICAL HOLIDAY CELEBRATION special at 0.35 was followed by a rerun AMERICA&...
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THE BIJOU REVIEW: “Larry Crowne” – The Feel-OK Movie Of the Summer





Our Review / 5 - Terrible
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Pilot + 1

THE SKED Pilot + 1 Review: “Those Who Kill”

  THOSE WHO KILL:  Monday 10PM on A&E Previously… on THOSE WHO KILL:  Catherine Jensen (Chloe Sevigny) is a Pittsburgh homicide detective on the serial killer beat.  She has demons in her past, and so does Tho...
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Articles

SHOWBUZZDAILY WEDNESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 3.1.2017

  As he  usually does, Dick Wolf got the job done. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary key advertiser demographics (adult 18-34, 18-49 and 25-54 ratings)...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Articles

EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “Incredibles 2″” Superheroic, “Tag” Mild, “Superfly” Awful, “Ocean’s 8″” Holds OK

  After a few mild weeks, INCREDIBLES 2 (Pixar/Disney) has the summer box office back in blockbuster mode.  It’s on pace to easily break Finding Dory‘s $135.1M animation opening record.  According to prelimin...
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Pilot Reports

SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “Frequency”

  FREQUENCY:  Wednesday 9PM on CW – Potential DVR Alert We still have ABC’s Time After Time and FOX’s half-hour Making History to come, but of the time-travel sagas we’ve seen so far, CW’s FR...
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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Tuesday 10.25.2022 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  BACHELOR IN PARADISE rose 0.08 to 0.63, but THE ROOKIE: FEDS was down 0.05 to 0.24. CBS:  Reruns at 0.41/0.35/0.29. NBC:  THE VOICE gained 0.02 to 0.62, LA BREA was up 0.03 to 0.35, and NEW AMST...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Film Festival

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto 2014 Review: “Clouds of Sils Maria”

  CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA (IFC):  no release date scheduled – Watch It At Home Olivier Assayas is a dazzlingly ambitious filmmaker, determined to do something totally different with each project he undertakes.  The re...
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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Saturday 2.5.2022 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED

  BROADCAST FINALS:  The day was dominated, of course, by NBC’s WINTER OLYMPICS coverage which hit 1.79 in primetime, but that was again down more than 60% from the parallel night in 2018.  ABC’s NBA game was...
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Reviews

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Scandal”

  Watching Shonda Rhimes’ SCANDAL has more than once been likened to an addiction, and as with a drug, the danger is that users will build up a tolerance over time, requiring more and more to achieve the same high. ...
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Fall Pilots

PREMIERING TONIGHT: THE SKED Pilot Review – ABC’s “Trophy Wife”

  Read All Our Fall Pilot Reports here. TROPHY WIFE:  Tuesday 9:30PM on ABC – If Nothing Else is On… If you like your comedy innocuous, TROPHY WIFE may fit the bill.  The title is ironic:  although Kate (Mal...
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Articles

MIDNIGHT BOXOFFICE: “Skyfall” Arrives

  The first domestic boxoffice numbers are in for SKYFALL (on top of its spectacular $321M overseas total to date).  On Thursday, the newest Bond had an unusual 1-day preliminary run only in IMAX and other large format th...
by Mitch Salem
 
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