THE SKED: Seek “The Finder”
> FOX’s decision to move TOUCH to Thursdays and BONES to Mondays left THE FINDER as the odd show out, and today that other shoe fell: Finder will run its remaining episodes (essentially burning them off) on Fridays ...
THE SKED’S THURSDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 3/1/12
> AWAKE didn’t keep anyone from a full night’s sleep. NBC: In the universe of NBC these days, you take your glass-half-full where you can get it, and here it is: AWAKE won its time slot, it was up from i...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Project X”
PROJECT X: Not Even For Free – Don’t RSVP How is it that no one has yet produced a 3D found-footage movie? You’d think the combination of the most (usually) mind-numbing gimmicks of the past ...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Being Flynn”
BEING FLYNN: Watch It At Home – Troubling Story That Doesn’t Go Deep Enough There’s a scene in Paul Weitz’s new film BEING FLYNN where Jonathan Flynn (Robert DeNiro), the alcoholic...
THE SKED REPORT: PREMIERING TONIGHT – NBC’s “Awake”
>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 sho...
THE SKED’S WEDNESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 2/29/12
> February Sweeps go out not with a bang, but with the other thing. ABC: The first “midseason arc” episode of REVENGE looked almost exactly like all the other episodes, so it was fitting that the rating stayed...
SHOWBUZZDAILY POST-POST-OSCARS BOXOFFICE – 2/28/12
> Well, that didn’t last long. After an Oscars+1 day where Best Picture winner THE ARTIST had the smallest Monday decline of any movie in the Top 10, by Tuesday the glow was gone. On a day when almost every To...
THE SKED: CW’s Finale Schedule
> CW has announced the line-up for its 2011/12 regular season finales, as well as a late-season premiere: First to exit will be ONE TREE HILL, which winds up its 9 seasons on April 4 with a 2-hour special. On April 17, RINGER w...
THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Parenthood”
> PARENTHOOD is sort of the Bizarro version of a broadcast network drama: it shines when addressing the kind of tiny moments of human interaction that just about every other show on TV can’t be bothered to notice, b...
THE SKED’S TUESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 2/28/12
> Did PARENTHOOD buy itself another season? NBC: Creatively, PARENTHOOD‘s season finale wasn’t the show at its best (too many storyline conclusions crammed into too little time). But its 1.9 rating built...
THE SKED: SMASHWatch Update – Back To Even
> Don’t get too excited about that increase in SMASH‘s 18-49 rating last night, because it just vanished. In the final Nielsen numbers, Smash came back down to the same 2.3 number it had last week. (Cast...
THE SKED’S MONDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 2/27/12
> SMASH-watch continues, on a very atypical night. NBC: With NASCAR unexpectedly occupying FOX’s primetime, CBS down and ABC up, the great news for NBC was that SMASH stabilized and even creeped up 0.1 from last wee...
The Sked: MONDAY RATINGS February 27
> FOX made the night interesting by carrying NASCAR’s Daytona 500 in prime time. (The race was delayed by weather from its normal Sunday afternoon time.) CBS and NBC were down from last week, although NBC rece...