Tom Selleck (left) with Blue Bloods co-star Donnie Wahlberg BEVERLY HILLS, CA–Television is ever obsessed with youth. The emphasis is always on the pursuit of younger stars, younger viewers. Once you age outside the 18-49-year-old demo, aloha.So stop and think about this: the biggest star in the giant CBS press tour tent party Wednesday night turned 65
BEVERLY HILLS, CA–There were slot machines and Vegas show girls at breakfast this morning as CBS kicked off the first real day of press tour sessions. Were they gambling on familiar faces and stay-the-course programming to remain at the top of the network ratings race? Or were we gambling on the scrambled eggs and bacon?
BEVERLY HILLS, CA–What’s a TCA press tour without Stephen McPherson? Critics are about to find out as the combative ABC programming boss abruptly announced his resignation Tuesday night. The move comes just days before he and other ABC officials were scheduled to meet the press at the semi-annual gathering of North American TV columnists. The
Egads! I’m heading down to the annual Television Critics Association summer press tour and I feel like I’ve stepped into Marty McFly’s DeLoren. Tom Selleck, Jim Belushi, Cloris Leachman and William Shatner all have new series to sell. Didn’t I already attend this press tour–in 1985? Actually, 1985 was the year I really did first attend a TCA
Over the past couple of days, two friends commented that they don’t watch Mad Men anymore because they find it kinda slow. Wait, I couldn’t halp thinking, till they see Rubicon (AMC’s new original series, a conspiracy theory drama starring James Badge Dale). Me, I’ll take all the slowed down, measured, true-to-life moments both these series offer.Tonight’s fourth season
Don Draper can see us. Can we see him? Don’t subscribe to AMC and vexed about missing Sunday’s Season Four premiere of Mad Men? Wondering why CTV didn’t pick it up again and give us our Don Draper fix? Looking everywhere for those new episodes of Futurama, even on the Internet, and getting nothing but
Sharp-eyed TVFMF reader M. Mitchell posted a recent comment pointing out an eerie similarity between V‘s rat-gobbling alien high commander Anna (Morena Baccarin, left) and incoming Global National anchor Dawna Friesen (right). Both have that vacant, we-come-in-peace stare thing happening. Friesen isn’t even an illegal alien. The NBC London-based correspondent is in fact a Manitoba
Sutherland senior: where’s Jack Bauer when you need him? What seems most jarring to these failing eyes are the sex scenes in today’s modern miniseries. While The Thorn Birds seemed racy in its day, Father Ralph and that Aussie chick were merely playing patty fingers in the Holy water compared to the sword and sandal sizzle