PASADENA, Calif.–ABC had nothing on its agenda for critics to do tonight–a perfect opportunity to catch up and blog about Fox’s lively post TCA Day bash.The Fox fest took place at the Villa Sorriso in Pasadena’s Old Town, a great little venue with plenty of in-and-out nooks and crannies for schmoozing, noshing and digital recognisance.Was
PASADENA, Calif.–The buzz off the floor of the press tour today is that NBC is scrambling for guest hosts to fill in for Conan O’Brien on The Tonight Show. With O’Brien’s turn down of a 12:05 Tonight earlier today, the gauntlet has been thrown down, the ball is in NBC’s court, the answer–one way or
PASADENA, Calif.–Here’s the solution: Jay Leno moves to Canada.After all the turmoil-in-late-night-headlines, The Jay Leno Show pulled 525,000 viewers Monday night on City stations in Canada, well up over the usually 350,000.Yet in the U.S. on NBC, Leno barely budged, doing 4.8 million.Still, even with the bump, Leno was barely Top-30 for the night according
PASADENA, Calif.–When you’re ABC, what are you going to do after NBC and Fox steal all the press tour thunder?Stephen McPherson, president, ABC entertainment played it cool, bringing his macho sneer to the stage of the Langham ballroom Tuesday morning in a low watt exec session.After all the electricity and theatrics from Fox Sunday, ABC
PASADENA, Calif.–Fox crams a lot of fun into press tour, so much that it is best to just run the photos with fat captions. Otherwise I’ll miss the shuttle to the Fox party, taking place tonight at the Villa Sorriso in Pasadena’s charming Old Town district.The day started with a Bones breakfast. Nothing says bacon,
PASADENA, Calif.–Those sneaky Fox dudes did it again. Expectations were high heading into Monday’s Fox executive session at press tour, what with rumours swirling that Conan O’Brien might bolt NBC for Fox and that Simon Cowell might walk away from TV’s No. 1 show, American Idol, if Fox didn’t bring his smash hit Brit series
PASADENA, Calif.–NBC Chairman Jeff Gaspin came straight out Sunday and addressed the big breaking story of press tour—yes, Howie Mandel will be replacing David Hasselhoff as a judge on “America’s Got Talent.”Actually there was a bigger story, something to do with Jay Leno and Conan O’Brien and NBC affiliates flipping out and forcing Gaspin’s hand.
PASADENA, Calif.–Who were those NBC executives? Critics were shocked and confused this morning when Avators disguised as NBC programming executives took centre stage at the TCA press tour and treated us like adults, with graciousness, humility and respect.The one that looked like NBC chairman Jeff Gaspin was especially impressive. Gaspin stepped up, took total responsibility