Dance duo Daft Punk won Album of the Year I got a call around five hours into Sunday night’s Grammy Awards to turn on the TV–Ringo was on.Sure enough, there he was, looking fab for 73 and singing Photograph. Beatle-y photos flashed behind him to remind folks that CBS has a special Feb. 9 commemorating
Peter Lenkov (left in white shirt) shows off the FIVE-0 writer’s room Usually, there are four or five set visits during a Winter or Summer TCA press tour. It is cool to see set designs and furnishings up close, but this month brought something different and long overdue–a visit to a writer’s room.It occurred last
Kinnear (front, centre) was one of many at the main TCA Rake session… The economy being what it is, networks presenting new shows at the TCA press tour have been doubling up in recent years. While the American and Canadian critics and reporters get the main show in the big room, Fox and HBO and
This shot of American Idol judges Keith Urban, JenniferLopez and Harry Connick, Jr., is more animated than theirrecent TCA session. Fortunately, so is the series so far This is no Idol threat: I am recapping this 13th edition of American Idol.I’ve been asked to overnight my take from here on in for the good folks
The Death March with Cocktails known as the Winter gathering of the Television Critics Association press tour is just about at an end. Some folks have stayed an extra day or two to get their pictures taken with the Sesame Street gang, meet Bob Newhart, George Takei and other Pioneers of Television and visit the
PASADENA, CA–That Ken Burns. He pays attention to detail.Monday afternoon, he was back at press tour for the umpteenth time, this season promoting The Address. At 90 minutes, The Address is about four score and seven years shorter than many of Burns’ epic docu-films of the past. That’s because it is based on Abraham Lincoln’s
PASADENA, CA–Earlier in the tour, Valerie Harper was here to promote The Town That Came A-Courtin’ on UP. UP (“Uplifting Entertainment”) is a new, Hallmark-y U.S. cable channel and it’s also where Harper is these days despite her grim lung cancer diagnosis of less than a year ago.The reason the 74-year-old is so positive is
Benedict Cumberbatch (left) with Sherlock co-star Amanda Abbington UPDATEDPASADENA, CA–Julia Roberts, Matthew McConaughey, Jimmy Fallon…stand aside. The biggest draw at this Winter’s Television Critics Association press tour was from PBS.No, not Grover or Cookie Monster, or even Ken Burns. The star who caused the biggest stir this January was Benedict Cumberbatch.Fans with autograph books, some