Friday’s crammed cable marathon is why some press wags refer to the TCA tour as the “Baatan death march with cocktails.” Critics had 45 minutes to run, eat and file the breaking news about Patrick Swayze before getting back down to new business. The afternoon sessions were even more jam-packed, with E!, HBO and the
People often ask: what’s press tour really like? Pretty cool, even in this age of cutbacks and contraction. Pretty busy, too, especially the just concluded cable section of the tour. In one day down here, critics were marched through 23 sessions representing 13 different cable channels, including the MTV networks and HBO. The scope of
Getting up to speed on a new lap top and chasing down a replacement AC power cord left behind in Toronto has me way behind on posting off the press tour. Apologies to the extended TVFMFamily family and thanks for your patience.Here’s something that should have been posted days ago: this week’s radio chat with
While I’m down at the TCA press tour this week and next, I’m filing daily reports for my pal Amber Dowling over at TV Guide.ca. My first post for the “e” Guide is on the Spike TV stunt show Jesse James is a Dead Man. James is one tough hombre. I’ve interviewed him in the
UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. —Will Ferrell is taking his act to Broadway with You’re Welcome America! A Final Night With George Bush. The one man show will air as an HBO special March 14 on HBO Canada.It gives Ferrell, who goofed on Bush for years on Saturday Night Live, one last chance to “send this character
UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. –It was just announced that Patrick Swayze, expected at press tour this morning to promote the new A&E series The Beast, just checked himself into the hospital.The executive producers and co-stars of the cable drama, who carried on with the session, say the first 12-episode season has been shot and is in
UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. –PBS opened this month’s press tour, but NBC grabbed the headlines. Not that the peacock network will welcome this kind of publicity. Law & Order: SVU star Richard Belzer, who was appearing before critics yesterday at a panel to promote an upcoming PBS salute to George Carlin, ripped his NBC bosses. He