Conan O’Brien’s twitter response to news Ellen DeGeneres is leaving American Idol: “Ellen has walked away from a television institution after one year, but ‘m sure it’s the right decision. Now, back to my model rocketry.”
Tom Welling at press tour BEVERLY HILLS, CA–Faster than a speeding bullet. That’s how fast Tom Welling was yanked off stage Thursday after The CW session for Hellcats. The 58-year-old actor is one of the executive producers of the new Glee rip-off cheerleader series, but is best known for playing Clark Kent on Smallville. That was
DeGeneres out: we hear Larry King is available BEVERLY HILLS, CA–Now we get why there are open notebooks and buzzing Blackberrys at all those press tour sessions. The most compelling news keeps happening outside the confines of the Beverly Hilton.Fox put out a release today announcing that Ellen DeGeneres (right) has stepped off the American Idol
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